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    SYMBOLIC DEVICES IN TENNESSEE WILLIAMS‚ A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE 1.     Introduction Written in 1947‚ A Streetcar Named Desire has always been considered one of Tennessee Williams’s most successful plays. One reason for this may be found in the way Williams makes extensive use of symbols as a dramatic technique. This happens in all of his plays‚ but in this instance Williams integrates symbols very effectively with ideas and thematic content. He once explained that symbolism is a way to “say a

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    to understand that our friends are who shape us in a way. Our family relationships have a very big impact on our identity because we grow up with them. In the play the characteristics of each character was very much affected by their families. Blanche Dubois’ identity for example was shaped in a particular way because of her major losses in life. Her family fortune and estate we gone and she lost her young husband to suicide. This has led to her to have insecurities and making her a disrupted individual

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    Stanley Kowalski In “A Streetcar Named Desire” the clash of cultures between Stanley Kowalski and the two DuBois sisters‚ Stella and Blanche‚ becomes very noticeable in certain parts of the play. There is an evident contrast between the “Old” and the “New” America. Stanley is Polish and is part of the growing working class in 1950s USA‚ whereas Stella and Blanche have a history in the United States and belong to a more sophisticated class where most of what they own is inherited. Stanley Kowalski

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    were developing in the South’ Critics see the clash between Stanley and Blanche not as human against human but rather species against species in a Darwinian sense or a Nietzschean Appolonian/Dionysian dichotomy and those comparisons are in the handout Scott Griffies 118 mentions a report that Williams said that the meaning of Streetcar is ‘You had better watch out as the Apes will take over’. This relates to Blanche in scene 4—‘thousands and thousands of years have passed him right by‚ and

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    on men to expose and critique the treatment of women during the transition from the old to the new South. Both Blanche and Stella see male companions as their only means to achieve happiness‚ and they depend on men for both their sustenance and their self-image. Blanche recognizes that Stella could be happier without her physically abusive husband‚ Stanley. Yet‚ the alternative Blanche proposes—contacting Shep Huntleigh for financial support—still involves complete dependence on men. When Stella

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    Stanley; dreamy‚ burned-out Blanche; bashful‚ meek Mitch. That being said‚ the successful portrayal of these characters is the mark of an excellent Streetcar performance. According to many readers‚ the stunning characterization is what makes A Streetcar Named Desire so compelling and legendary. Yet I would like to disagree. I think it is the play’s setting that makes the story so fascinating. Streetcar occupies a specific place and time in the American literary canon. Blanche finds herself adrift in

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    feet‚ and you are left to fend for yourself in the big world outside? Cultural and social collisions can have a deep impact on your life‚ and nowhere is this better brought out than in Tennessee William’s classic play‚ “A Streetcar Named Desire”. Blanche‚ a sophisticated upper

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    This play is about a woman named Blanche DuBois‚ who moves with her sister‚ Stella Kowalski‚ and her husband‚ Stanley Kowalski‚ in New Orleans. Blanche’s flirtatious behavior causes a lot of problems in Stella and Stanley life. Stanley and Blanche display qualities of antagonists

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    Farley 1 Kaleb Farley Professor Roach English 1A 11 March 2013 My Peaceful Second Home: The Diamond Why does every person need a place of comfort and peace? So they can relax and enjoy the quality of life. My special place is the baseball field. The baseball diamond is my peaceful place for countless reasons. Like Gary Kamiya said in the story‚ Life‚ Death and Spring. “Its good to have a place where you can go to watch the world get old and young‚ live and die.” Mine is the baseball field

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    The loss of traditional values can be seen at the beginning of the play by the portrayal of the fading Southern beauty‚ Blanche‚ in Laurel‚ Mississippi. Her home‚ Belle Reve‚ and family fortune were gone. It reveals that she is having a financial difficulty. Since she lost her young husband to suicide years earlier‚ she has a strong need for human affection. Later‚ she was fired from her job as an English teacher because she had an affair with a teenage student. Finally‚ she has no choice but to

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