Similarities Between Streetcar Named Desire And Soul Select Her Own Society

Together, the themes of the play “Streetcar Named Desire” and the poem “Soul Select Her Own Society” implies the environment and women’s position during the late 18th century and the early 19th century. Also, both works shows that cultural social norm provide people to follow the patterns of stratification, according to sociological perspective, it is hierarchical arrangement of people within social structure and process of sorting people into social-categories and ranking of groups within those social categories. In each social category sets are valued or devalued in the different social system. Valued sets are considers more important, worthy, and they have more privilege than devalued set, which are considers less important, inferior, and
less deserving. So, the women in the 18th and the 19th century were connected to the devalued group in their society, because in the play “Streetcar Named Desire” all the female characters are force to accept the things which provided by the valued group “Males” even they were sick of it. On the other, the speakers in the poem “The Soul Select Her Own Society” carried a fantastic example of “devalued female group” to show that they were lack of creative of decision making and lack valued from valued one during the late 18th century.