How Does Blanche Escape Reality
In "A Streetcar Named Desire", a play written by Tennessee Williams. A major theme that is present is the desire to escape reality by using illusions, Blanche uses her fantasy world to get through things that she doesn’t want to face in reality. She desires to be wanted, ands holds a strong past of dark memories that she hides in her realm of fantasy. Throughout the story Blanche transitions from very subtle fantasies she portrays to others, to the more dramatic examples when she begins to believe this illusion is her reality. The reason she did this because she had lost her husband, was fired from her teaching job, and lost her family’s land. She comes to New Orleans to start a new life.
The first event that started Blanche to
mental deterioration to create was her husband’s Allen Gray suicide. Her husband was a homosexual, and Blanche caught him with another man. Blanche was heartbroken and socked because she was in love with Allen, but he did not return her feelings, this intrusion of reality separates her dream picture of her significant other, when she discovers, she lets him know that he disgusts her. Allan humiliated that Blanche has discovered his secret, commits suicide. After Allen's death, Blanche drinks to liquor and taking part in sexual intimacies with younger men to adapt to cope with guilt of his passing, “After the death of Allan — intimacies with strangers was all I seemed able to fill my empty hearty with”(Williams, 146). The illusion was that perhaps that if she lays down with every one of these men, one of them may be the right one for her, and make her his significant other and marry her. However that wasn't the case. Since Laurel was a small town, word spread around rapidly about her promiscuous sexual endeavors. Blanche also lost her job due to a sexual encounter with a student.
Blanche’s family estate, Belle Reve was also lost after the deaths of many family members. The bills for the funerals of the family fell upon Blanche. Not only was she dealing with the death of Allen but also loss of family members, she was forced to give up her family home. The estate her family had owned for hundreds of years was gone. Being left with nothing, she goes off to Elysian fields in New Orleans to go live her sister Stella and her husband Stanley Kowalski. At the point when Blanche lands in New Orleans, she arrives, “dressed in a white suit with a fluffy bodice, necklace and earrings of pearl, white gloves and hat, looking as if she were arriving at a summer tea or cocktail party in the garden district” (Williams, 5). She arrives dressed like this to radiate a hallucination that she’s a refined and respectable lady, yet in actuality she is only a whore that was forced to leave town, to spare her reputation. By utilization of her malicious lies, it is here in New Orleans Blanche changes events of her past as well as her identity. She conceals herself behind a mask. She depicts herself as delightful, kind, mindful, unobtrusive casualty instead of her accurate tipsy, sexually promiscuous self, resultant from the suicide of her previous spouse.
The first event that started Blanche to
mental deterioration to create was her husband’s Allen Gray suicide. Her husband was a homosexual, and Blanche caught him with another man. Blanche was heartbroken and socked because she was in love with Allen, but he did not return her feelings, this intrusion of reality separates her dream picture of her significant other, when she discovers, she lets him know that he disgusts her. Allan humiliated that Blanche has discovered his secret, commits suicide. After Allen's death, Blanche drinks to liquor and taking part in sexual intimacies with younger men to adapt to cope with guilt of his passing, “After the death of Allan — intimacies with strangers was all I seemed able to fill my empty hearty with”(Williams, 146). The illusion was that perhaps that if she lays down with every one of these men, one of them may be the right one for her, and make her his significant other and marry her. However that wasn't the case. Since Laurel was a small town, word spread around rapidly about her promiscuous sexual endeavors. Blanche also lost her job due to a sexual encounter with a student.
Blanche’s family estate, Belle Reve was also lost after the deaths of many family members. The bills for the funerals of the family fell upon Blanche. Not only was she dealing with the death of Allen but also loss of family members, she was forced to give up her family home. The estate her family had owned for hundreds of years was gone. Being left with nothing, she goes off to Elysian fields in New Orleans to go live her sister Stella and her husband Stanley Kowalski. At the point when Blanche lands in New Orleans, she arrives, “dressed in a white suit with a fluffy bodice, necklace and earrings of pearl, white gloves and hat, looking as if she were arriving at a summer tea or cocktail party in the garden district” (Williams, 5). She arrives dressed like this to radiate a hallucination that she’s a refined and respectable lady, yet in actuality she is only a whore that was forced to leave town, to spare her reputation. By utilization of her malicious lies, it is here in New Orleans Blanche changes events of her past as well as her identity. She conceals herself behind a mask. She depicts herself as delightful, kind, mindful, unobtrusive casualty instead of her accurate tipsy, sexually promiscuous self, resultant from the suicide of her previous spouse.