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A Streetcar Named Desire
In Tennessee William's play A Streetcar Named Desire the character of Blanche Dubois, a Southern belle of sophisticated tastes and mannerisms and formerly rich woman, enters the household of her...
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A Streetcar Named Desire
A Streetcar Named Desire begins in an area of New Orleans called Elysian Fields. Blanche Dubois, a former school teacher, is there to visit her sister Stella and brother-in-law Stanley. Blanche...
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A Streetcar Named Desire
In Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Name Desire the character of Blanche is a self-centered, hysterical and wild-natured woman who has lost every possible chance of respectability and, as a result,...
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A Streetcar Named Desire
Toward the end of the play A Streetcar Named Desire, Blanche meets her tragic end. She is sexually violated by her sister's husband, Stanley. This was the culmination of a cycle of bullying,...
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A Streetcar Named Desire
This is a very interesting prompt. In order to do justice to it, you need to be able to put yourself in Blanche's shoes. She's just come out of the mental asylum, so naturally, she's had a pretty...
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A Streetcar Named Desire
In scene 3 of A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, Stanley Kowalksi is having his friends Stanley, Steve, Mitch, and Pablo over to his home for "poker night." The poker game was...
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A Streetcar Named Desire
When Stella first appears on stage, she is described as being a gentle, attractive young woman, who is twenty-five years old. Similar to her sister, Stella is a sensitive, refined woman who grew up...
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A Streetcar Named Desire
Blanche somewhat unwisely shows a general disdain for Stanley from the moment they meet. As a working-class man, Stanley is "beneath" her, with her ideas, real or imagined, about her gentrified...
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A Streetcar Named Desire
In the stage directions for the opening scene of his play A Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams provides a wealth of background information that's important to understanding the setting,...
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A Streetcar Named Desire
Blanche is full of mystery, spinning lies around her life to make it sound like less of a wreck to others and also, eventually, to herself. While it's clear at the beginning of the play that...
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A Streetcar Named Desire
To develop a thesis for your essay, an important first step is deciding what you think the author’s intentions are in the play. Blanche DuBois is the main character, and she undergoes some major...
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A Streetcar Named Desire
In Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire, Blanche DuBois makes a habit of always avoiding bright light, which is symbolic of her avoidance of reality. Blanche cannot face the truth about...
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A Streetcar Named Desire
In the play A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, Blanche DuBois, an aged beauty and a woman fallen on hard times, comes to stay with her sister Stella and her boorish husband Stanley. At...
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A Streetcar Named Desire
There are many ways that a writer can approach the character of Blanche DuBois in Tennessee Williams’s play. Her character is both an individual who has distinctive elements and changes over the...
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A Streetcar Named Desire
In Scene 10, when Blanche is being pursued by Stanley, the stage directions indicate that "Lurid reflections appear on the wall around Blanche." These reflections "move sinuously as flames along...
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A Streetcar Named Desire
In A Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams juxtaposes concepts of reality and illusion. The main character, Blanche DuBois, comes to stay at her sister’s house to escape her former life and...
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A Streetcar Named Desire
It's tragically clear from the start of the play that Blanche Dubois' sexual history will be the cause of her downfall. And the names of the streetcars which she's ridden to find her way to Stella...
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A Streetcar Named Desire
When Blanche meets Mitch in scene 3, she says that he seems "superior to the other" men. He possesses a sensitivity which she mistakes for a cultivated mind. Later in the scene, Blanche laughs...
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A Streetcar Named Desire
Girard's theory of mimetic desire argues that all desire is mimetic or imitative. In other words, we desire something only because we first see that someone else has it. Our desire is built on...
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A Streetcar Named Desire
One important way in which the play defies the norms that guided traditional drama is that the primary male character exhibits immoral behavior and does not get punished for it. By contrast, in...
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A Streetcar Named Desire
The theme of the past affecting the present is most starkly illustrated by the character of Blanche DuBois. Blanche rocks up at her sister Stella's apartment, where Stella lives with her hulking...
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A Streetcar Named Desire
In A Streetcar Named Desire, Mitch is Stanley’s friend who has distinct differences from yet some similarities to Stanley. Although briefly appearing in scene one, he is not fully introduced until...
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A Streetcar Named Desire
Plastic theater is the term used to describe the use of props and other elements of staging—such as walls, sounds, and lighting—to mirror the emotional states of the characters on stage rather than...
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A Streetcar Named Desire
Blanche DuBois had long felt at home in the family estate of Belle Reve, but as she grew older, she was no longer able to keep up the property or continue the elite, rural lifestyle that was their...
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A Streetcar Named Desire
The main theme of A Streetcar Named Desire can be boiled down to one word: death. This is a play about endings: the end of Blanche's youth, the end of the Old South itself, and the end of Blanche's...
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A Streetcar Named Desire
"Turn the trick" is a double entendre, meaning it has two meanings. The surface meaning is that Blanche realizes she is aging. This makes it more difficult for her to "turn the trick" of presenting...
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A Streetcar Named Desire
In her final monologue, Blanche imagines herself dying at sea after eating an unwashed grape. The situation seems to be one of relative opulence, on a yacht or a luxurious ocean liner, where the...
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A Streetcar Named Desire
On the whole, Stella's quite a weak and passive woman, which is why she becomes a pawn in the epic battle of wills between her sister and husband. Caught in the middle of this titanic struggle over...
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A Streetcar Named Desire
In The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir felt that the idea of womanhood is unnatural, something imposed upon women by the patriarchy. Women are told they are inferior to men mentally and physically....
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A Streetcar Named Desire
Williams often makes use of symbolism in his plays, and light is a central symbol in A Streetcar Named Desire, used primarily in relation to the main character, Blanche. It takes two major forms,...
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A Streetcar Named Desire
I think that Stella is motivated by desire in a couple of capacities. On one hand, there is the carnal desire of being married to Stanley. It is evident that Stella is attracted to this primal...
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A Streetcar Named Desire
The streetcar named "Desire" in the play was the one which brought Blanche to the Kowalskis' shabby apartment in New Orleans. Blanche even makes reference to it upon her arrival (to the...
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A Streetcar Named Desire
Love is viewed in a variety of contexts in Williams' work. Blanche features a love of nostalgia, a desperate love of the past in the hopes of providing some semblance of hope and understanding for...
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A Streetcar Named Desire
Belle Reve, which means beautiful dream, is the name of the plantation, the former home of Stella and Blanche DuBois. Representative of the Old South and the charmed lives that the sisters known...
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A Streetcar Named Desire
Tennessee Williams, in his play A Streetcar Named Desire, alludes to human sexuality through the characterizations provided through the strong use of gender roles. Stanley is characterized as the...
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A Streetcar Named Desire
The title of Tennessee Williams' play A Streetcar Named Desire refers to a few different things. While the title most poignantly refers to the actual streetcar Blanche takes to get to her sister's,...
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A Streetcar Named Desire
The character of Blanche duBois in A Streetcar named Desire is, if not necessarily a "likable" one, one with whom we can sympathize. The sympathy that the audience may feel for her comes from the...
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A Streetcar Named Desire
Blanche is romantic and idealistic but discontented and desperate. Stella is simple, humble, realistic, and basically contented with her situation as a housewife and expectant mother. Blanche has...
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A Streetcar Named Desire
The central conflict in Tennessee William's play A Streetcar Named Desire is between Blanche and Stanley. This conflict begins when Stanley notices that Blanche sees herself above everyone else....
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A Streetcar Named Desire
With the stage directions of "an atmosphere of decay," A Streetcar Named Desire opens with the motif of death. And, as Blanche arrives in her delicate beauty "that suggests a moth," she tells...
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A Streetcar Named Desire
A Streetcar Named Desire presents the American dream through irony. It is represented in the character of Stanley Kowalski, a Polish American who could boast a good job for substenance, a home, a...
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A Streetcar Named Desire
In Scene 4 of A Streetcar Named Desire, Stella tells her sister of her strong desires for Stanley, her husband. Stella then asks her sister if she has not ridden on a streetcar of the name of...
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A Streetcar Named Desire
The opening scene of A Streetcar Named Desire presents a dainty and beautifully dressed woman in a white suit with a fluffy bodice, pearls, and white gloves and hat, an appearance that leads the...
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A Streetcar Named Desire
For Stanley, desire corresponds to the basic male sex drive, a purely physical instinct, coupled with the macho need to dominate. This 'urge to merge' has nothing to do with the notions of romance...
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A Streetcar Named Desire
Throughout the play, Tennessee Williams makes it clear that Stella is crazy about Stanley even though, or because, he has such a violent and animalistic nature. She is in love with him. She...
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A Streetcar Named Desire
Tennessee Williams understood the deliberate purpose of the setting in A Streetcar Named Desire. Williams's stage directions indicate this importance in describing New Orleans: ...a peculiarly...
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A Streetcar Named Desire
Blanche definitely represents the Old South. She even grew up in a stereotypical Southern mansion and was encouraged to behave like a stereotypical Southern belle. She is not emotionally equipped...
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A Streetcar Named Desire
Blanche does not intentionally deceive Mitch in everything she says and does. In some respects she is being at least as sincere with him as she is with herself. She truly believes in gentility,...
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A Streetcar Named Desire
Tennessee Williams' play, A Streetcar Named Desire, is a drama. The term drama is Greek in origin, meaning "action." Outside of that, dramas are placed into subcategories. This play is what is...
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A Streetcar Named Desire
In A Streetcar Named Desire, Stanley Kowalski is the personification of the alpha male type of masculinity. He's tough, physically imposing, and protective. He is also dominant. Indeed, his...
