Themes In A Streetcar Named Desire Sexual Desire

Sexual desire is a key theme in ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’. Sex is played as a destructive force throughout the play through different forms such as death and violence. Sexual desire can be seen through many of the character in the play, especially through Stanley and Stella’s relationship and Stanley and Blanche’s rape scene.
Throughout the play the character of Blanche is flirtatious and she relies on the perception of herself as an object of male sexual desire as a way of operating in the world. Blanche’s interaction with any of the men in the play is always flirtatious, especially at the beginning when she meets them. Blanche’s language and actions in the play is always provocative. Blanche tells Stella that she and Stanley smoothed things