Stanley views Blanche as being untrustworthy due to her snobbish attitude towards him and her many questionable traits. Being a man of reality, Stanley wants the truth behind Blanche's false image. .
Blanche has created a fantasy world for herself because she has refused to accept the reality of her life. Williams is showing how one may create diversions in an attempt to relieve oneself from the stress of life. Williams is demonstrating this through the lies that Blanche is living. He is showing the weakness of a person placed in an uncomfortable situation. For Blanche, this is the situation she found herself in while in Laurel, after the suicide of her husband. She attempted to block out the feelings she had for him by seeking physical pleasure. This desire for physical relationships brought her to a more troubled state of reality. Thus, she continued to live a lie, by attempting to leave her troubles and stay with Stella. Through Blanche's actions, Williams is showing the vicious cycle that can occur when one attempts to run away from reality. He is demonstrating the dangers associated with becoming engulfed in things that are false. He is showing how one will become involved in more trouble by trying to escape reality, rather than facing it.
Stanley eventually finds the truth behind the fiction that Blanche has created in her many fantasies. By researching Blanche's past life, he was able to uncover what she was running from. Stanley's ability to uncover the truth of Blanche leads to her final downfall. The act of Stanley unveiling the real Blanche represents the act of reality overcoming fantasy. Williams uses this act to represent the final showdown between these two extremes. A person is only able to survive in his fantasy for so long. Eventually, the person will be forced to leave his fantasy and return to reality. In this case, Stanley represented reality chasing fantasy and defeating it.
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...
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...
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. ...
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. ...
