Character of Blanche in Tennessee Williams A Streetcar Named Desire Es

Character of Blanche in Tennessee Williams A trolley Named Desire champion of the best-known dramatic events of our time, Tennessee Williamss A Streetcar Named Desire tells the bill of weaken Southern belle Blanche DuBois and her manages during the Souths post-war changes. Although the play is widely remembered due to its 1951 motion picture version and Marlon Brandos famous bare-chested cry of Stella, it is also a story of a changing South containing characters struggling with the loss of aristocracy to the newfangled American immigrant, the fallout of chivalry to a new mindset of stimulate and desire, and a woman grasping desperately at the last twist of fantasy she can muster. Throughout A Streetcar Named Desire, Williams uses Blanche as a way to critique Southern progress by using her as a symbol for a dark, fundamental existence. When fading Southern belle Blanche Dubois stolon arrives at her sister Stellas apartment, she is already internally dealing with the engagement between desire and gentility. The end of the play is foreshadowed early on as Blanche states, They told me to take a street-car named Desire, and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride sixer blocks and get off at Elysian handle (15). This statement serves as a metaphor for Blanches life as the mentions of desire, cemeteries, and the Elysian Fields (which symbolize the land of the dead in Greek mythology) describe how her inner desire serves as the catalyst for her social death and expulsion. Blanches narcism and dependence on men also culminate as the play nears its end, as she is taken away from the fantasy she so desperately clings to and dragged into a new world of reality and a New South. Blanches struggle with fantasy and reality serves as on... ... in everyones lives. This statement holds accredited for progress as well without fantasy and dreams there would be no progress. After all, progress is the product of someones fantasy- an idea that was purpose up on a whim. Like Blanche though, progress often has an underlying existence that is very dark. Not all progress is good and Blanche symbolizes this. Williamss comparisons between Blanche and progress serve to show how progress can be a force that precipitates each individuals desperate choices that is, their top executive to throw ideas, love, etc. out into the world in the hopes of moving forward. By unveiling a theme that is still pertinent today, A Streetcar Named Desire makes its mark as a piece of classic literature, which go out be read for generations to come. Works CitedWilliams, Tennessee. A Streetcar Named Desire. New York Signet Printing, 1980.