Theme Of Gender Conflict In A Streetcar Named Desire

Gender conflict is also a dominant theme in Tennessee William’s play A Streetcar Named Desire. The play explicate the South American society in the beginning of the 20th century. The society of that time was completely man-dominant. Women played only secondary role same as in any other patriarchal society. Stanly Kowalsky, the protagonist of the play, sternly believes that only man should be in dominant position a family. Due to panoptic power of patriarchy Stella, Kowalsky’s wife is complacently subjugated to him. She cannot even think to confront her dogmatic husband. Blanche, Stella’s sister also lie on the lower edge to Stanly as he presents male ideal of a patriarchal society. Instead of the fact that Stella and Blanche manifest two different