Category: A Streetcar Named Desire

Analytical Essay Look closely at Blanches monologue in Scene One on page 12 from A Streetcar Named Desire, starting with I, I took the blows in my face and my body! until the end of the scene. Discuss in detail the way in which Tennessee Williams presents Blanche in this extract, considering how it reflects…

In a society where sex is consistently consumed in our daily media, its hard to conceptualize a time period when sex was a taboo conversation spoken only behind closed doors. From the late 1800s until the mid-1900s, sexual promiscuity was a subject not often spoken aloud. It was considered dirty and perverse to speak of…

Many playwriters use Symbolism as of technique in their plays to obtain a dramatic affect and allow playwrights to give their audience a more meaningful understanding of the play on a different extent; this makes the play more fascinating. Symbolism can be used to add tension to a scene, to foreshadow certain events in a…

Sometimes trying your best isnt enough. The film A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry’s is based on The Youngers who are an African-American family living in the southside of Chicago. The family lives in a low income apartment structure that only has only one bathroom per floor. The Youngers family is faced with…

For decades, the topic regarding mental health has been looked down upon, with many considering it as a taboo that should not be discussed or mentioned. But as more awareness is raised, society becomes increasingly aware of those in distress, encouraging many worldwide to end the stigma and discrimination that still lingers today. In the…

The mid-twentieth century was a period of extraordinary social change. The two world wars had placed power into the marginalized groups, and for a brief timespan the perceived leverage between the sexual orientations had shifted. However by the 1950s, men had taken back the advantage. It was into this setting Tennessee Williams brought his dynamic…

Scene 3 establishes Stanley as a villain as it shows his complete aggression and anger when people do things that he doesn’t agree with. During scene 3 we see that all of the men in the play are participating in a poker game, where Stanley seems to get drunk and becomes more aggressive towards Stella…

In the play A Streetcar Named Desire, written by Tennesee Williams, the erratic protagonist Blanche embodies the cultivated ideals of the old world, juxtaposing the character of Stanley whom represents the industrialised new world which fundamentally comprises of patriarchal motivations and post-war values. Throughout the play, Blanche is invariably threatened and exploited by Stanley, consequently…

In both A Streetcar Named Desire and The Catcher in the Rye, the characters existence is influenced by the idea of the American dream. An idea that was seen by capitalist America was that you must ruthlessly work to achieve your highest aspirations, and could be recognized by others through wealth and social class. With…

The word symbol, derived from the Greek verb symballein, to throw together, is an animate or inanimate object that represents or stands for something else.1 They use a concrete image to express implicit ideas or emotions, to be interpreted by the reader. In the 20th Century, for instance, the United States used Uncle Sam as…