Streetcar Named Desire Ideal Vs Reality Essay

Streetcar Named Desire is a play that depicts the tragedy of Blanche Dubois, a daughter of the wealthy landowner in the South. As a result of the fall of the family, her life starts to collapse by struggling between ideal and reality. Having experinenced the terrible reality; her husband’s homosexuality and suicide, Blanche feels the distance between her dream life and her relentless reality, but she becomes more obseessed with the past, and doesn’t aceept the reality For me, Blanche Dubois was the most sympathetic and interesting character. Blanche lives in her own desire without being confronted with the truth, and is eventually left out from a brutal society. Most of the people who are living in modern society feel anxious and get disenchanted
If it fails, we will become Blanche Dubois, and if we succeed, we will become Franz Kafka. Kafka did his best as an insurance company employee during the day, and at night, he wrote a novel that no one could ever write. He did not give up the ideal for reality, nor ignore the reality for his ideal. The greatness of Katka will be in a strong will and purpose embodied in the tension arising from this contradictive relation. This is an example that shows how important is to establish a balance between ideals and reality, and to live a life different from others. As a old fan of Woody Allen’s films, I have seen the movie ‘Blue Jasmine’ which was an homage to Streetcar Named Desire when I was in middle school. I could not feel pity and identify with Cate Blanchett, who played a similar role to Blanche at that time, but after a few more years of lving, and after having experienced some hardships, I was able to discover some similarities with her and sympathize with