Because of the things she has been through, she is strongly attached to the past and cannot cope with life outside Laurel. Being insecure and unrealistic she has difficulties coping with the real world. Having to live with the fact that she lost her loved ones, Blanche escapes from reality and from her misery by drinking and meaningless affairs. She needs those things to avoid the truth of her life. Surrendering her body to strangers by seducing young boys, in memory of her husband, does not bring peace to her heart but, on the contrary, ruins her reputation and teaching career. .
In the first scene Blanche's appearance compared to a moth which in literature is a symbol of the soul. This symbol can suggest that the travel to New Orleans is a journey of her soul.
When Blanche arrives at her sister's Stella's and her husband Stanley's small apartment she pretents to be a woman who has never experienced dishonour or disrespect. Thinking that her heart and soul remained untouched and uninvolved in her physical affairs, she leaves them behind and sees herself as moral, appropriate and even prudish. She wants to think of herself as young and attractive, but she hates bright light, in fear in would reveal her age.
Blanche hopes to leave her reputation behind and improve her financial status by marrying a rich man Shep Huntleigh. When this prospect is destroyed, the only possibility of future happiness Blanche sees in Mitch, Stanley's friend who falls in love with her. Unfortunately Blanche's hopes are shattered after Stanley finds out the truth about her disrespectable past. Her world is torn apart and her mental stability diminished after being raped by Stanley and at the end of the play she is placed in a mental institution. It was not the actual rape which lead her to madness but the fact that she was abused by a man who represented everything disagreeable to her.
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. ...
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...
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. ... Light, animal characteristics, music and the streetcars Desire and Cemeteries are symbols that Kazan puts emphasis on in the film just as Williams does in the play to lead up to the climax of Blanche's disintegration into insanity and Stanley's brutal triumph over her. ... "They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then tr...
That play was A Streetcar Named Desire. ... It is no surprise that Williams again turned to Mielziner to design A Streetcar Named Desire. ... Thanks in large part to A Streetcar Named Desire, the duo of Mielziner and Williams helped to change theatre. ... At the time of A Streetcar Named Desire, "it was more like an accusation" (Murphy 1). ... When it came to A Streetcar Named Desire, Kazan's collaboration did not come cheap. ...
" A Streetcar Named Desire" by Tennessee Williams Bruce, Smith. ... "It's a French name. ... She tells him the origins of her name, which she treasures. ... "A Streetcar Named Desire" did not grab my attention at all. ... "A Streetcar Named Desire" was written in 1933, and many things have changed since then. ...
Viewing of A Streetcar Named Desire Although the basic story line is the same in both the book and the live play of A streetcar Named Desire, some things were different. ... For the most part, reading A Streetcar Named Desire was very similar to the live performance. ...
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. ... This desire for physical relationships brought her to a more troubled state of reality. ... Tennessee Williams uses his play "A Streetcar Named Desire" to demonstrate the problem one faces with creating a fantasy...
Tennessee Williams uses symbols to help communicate his ideas in A Streetcar Named Desire. ... Clothing is a recurring symbol in A Streetcar Named Desire. ... Death, as told by Blanche, is the opposite of Desire, and Blanche wishes to be desired. ... The streetcar named Desire leads to a streetcar named Cemeteries, and both of the most important characters suffer death in one way of another. Without this desire, this play would be completely different and have less meaning. ...
