The ending in Tennessee William's play A Streetcar Named Desire in which Blanche DuBois' sister Stella Kowalski leads her off to a mental hospital by a matron and a kind-hearted doctor was indeed inevitable. Blanche's "desires " have led to her eventual fate when she when stays in with Stella and her eventual "judge, jury, and executioner " Stanley Kowalski, Stella's husband. Blanche even said that desire brought her to where she is right now. Blanche's horrid past, which traumatized her throughout the play, which she reveals to be her husband ˜s suicide with a gunshot to the mouth because of Blanche's personal disgust with him sleeping with another man. Blanche's past also led her to live a life of fantasy and in which she indulges herself with various men. Lastly, to an extent, Stanley exploits Blanche's past and fantasies that leads her to insanity.
Firstly, throughout the play, it is evident that Blanche's past has always been a burden to her and have haunted her throughout. The first example of this is in Scene II, where Blanche talks to Stanley about how Belle Reve was lost when she says, "There are thousands of papers. Stretching back over hundreds of years, affecting Belle Reve as, piece by piece, our improvident grandfathers and father and uncles and brothers exchanged the land for their epic fornications " (Williams 43). This quotes foreshadows her fate and shows the audience that even Blanche's family and their "epic fornication " led to their downfall. Also, Blanche's love for her husband and his suicide is what triggered Blanche's eventual path to insanity. In Scene VI, Blanche tells Mitch that the death of her husband caused " the searchlight which had been turned on the world was turned off again and never for one moment since has there been any light that's stronger than this " kitchen " candle " (Williams 96). Blanche's desire for love and intimacy leads to her husband's death and in return, gave her nothing but pain and sorrow.
Tennesee Williams' Use Of Stage Effects And How They Change A Streetcar Named Desire Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire is mastery of the use of lighting, setting, and sound to add to emotion and meaning to a play. ... It seems that the minor details of music, sound effects, lighting, and setting were actually some of the most important points of A Streetcar Named Desire. ...
The purest language of plays" - just by studying 'A streetcar named Desire" the reader can identity the numerous symbols Williams' uses to add depth to the plot as well as unveil his characters' personalities, strengths and weaknesses. ... "They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at Elysian fields" (pg 117). ... The symbolism lies in the names of the streetcars and how they're represented in Blanche's life. The streetcar Desire describes her relationship with her young husband, her liaison...
In his essay "The Tragic Downfall of Blanche DuBois," Leonard Berkman determines the catalyst of Blanche DuBois's eventual psychological downfall to the asylum as her constant desire for sex while trying to preserve her dignity, self-regard, and upper class image. ... The essay then blames Blanche's troubles on her fear that eventually having sex will prevent future intimacy. ... It is because of her cultured, old-fashioned ways she treks not from "a streetcar named desire to Elysian Fields", but from desire to dementia. Blanche DuBois's collapse in A Streetcar Named Desire t...
Streetcar Named Desire: Blanche DuBois Throughout the play, Streetcar Named Desire, written by Tennessee Williams, I discovered much symbolism. I have decided to focus on one character, in effort to shy away from a lengthy essay. ... Later in the same scene, she describes her trip to New Orleans: "They told me to take a streetcar named desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at Elysian Fields."" ... When the man in charge, named "Mr. ... Her final destination was "Elysian Fields-. ...
In the play "A Streetcar Named Desire" by Tennessee Williams, there are several prevalent themes. ... This is allegorically represented through Blanche DuBois's riding of the streetcars named Desire and Cemeteries. ... In "A Streetcar Named Desire", Tennessee Williams states that one can not shield himself from the harshness of reality by creating a fantasy alternative. ... Stanley's ability to uncover the truth of Blanche leads to her final downfall. ... Tennessee Williams uses his play "A Streetcar Named Desire" to demonstrate the problem one faces with creating a fantasy. ...
In A Streetcar Named Desire the part that Tennessee Williams' life plays in the text is fairly large. ... His father withdrew him from university to work at the International Shoe Company, where he met Stanley Kowalski, who Tennessee Williams' has plastered all over A Streetcar Named Desire. ... Quoting A Streetcar Named Desire: The Playwright (http://hipp.gator.net/scarplaywright.html): 'He was noted for bringing to his audiences a slice of his own life and the feel of the southern culture. ... A personal interest/experience in the themes/issues and characters would not have...
Tennessee Williams' play A Streetcar Named Desire shows the tensions between reality and fantasy, common sense and imagination, and between male and female. ... In what is Blanche's final line in the play, she says, "Whoever you are-I have always depended on the kindness of strangers" (142). ... She says," They told me to take a streetcar named Desire, then transfer to one called Cemeteries[]get off at Elysian Fields!... Blanche got on Desire, the streetcar and rode it to get to where she wanted to go. ... After the analysis of major characters, it has been determined ...
Streetcar Essay At a glance, the streetcar may appear to be ordinary part of everyday life in New Orleans. ... As stated in the short film Streetcar Stories, "There were friends that you had first met on the streetcar, and there were friends that you only saw on the streetcar." ... While riding the streetcar an elderly man sat next to me and shared with me some of his thoughts about the streetcar. ... When I asked him how the streetcar had affected his life as an individual he stated "the streetcar has made my life easier. ... The streetcar definitely makes New Orleans a unique city. ...
Tennessee Williams A Streetcar Named Desire- Tennesse Williams is known as one of the greatest American playwrights. ... Among his most notable and successful plays were "The Glass Menagerie-, which he refers to as "memory play-, "A Streetcar Named Desire-, "The Rose Tatoo- and "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof- for which he was appreciated winning the Pulitzer Prize. ... "Streetcar Named Desire- which was firstly entitled "The Poker Night- emerged right after the theatrical success of "The Glass Menagerie- when the authour learned to play poker game. ... The moment Blanche appea...
