Essays on A Streetcar Named Desire

Critics have interpreted that ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ by Tennessee Williams and ‘The Great Gatsby’ by F. Scott Fitzgerald present traditional gender roles through the characters of the texts and the way they behave towards each other. Both texts portray women as being oppressed, having…

Blanche is a character that lives a life full of desire, depending on others, and denial. The only way Blanche can survive in this world is by living this way. Her sexual desire makes her feel wanted, desirable, and younger. Blanche needs a man she…

Tennessee Williams, a profound playwright, illustrates a powerful theme of fantasy vs reality within, “A Streetcar Named Desire”. This theme tells the stories of certain characters that create imaginative fantasies to escape an arduous past or to shelter a true yet undesirable reality of appearance…

A Streetcar Named Desire is a play that has been written by Tennessee Williams in 1947. There are some things in the play that might be considered controversial in today’s time. This written task is going to examine how differently would it be written if…

In Ibsen’s A Doll’s House and Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire, both playwrights have shed light on the struggles women face to establish their place in the patriarchal society. While in A Doll’s House women finally triumph over patriarchy, in A Streetcar Named Desire, they…

The desire to adhere to hetero-patriarchal social conventions of masculinity is a problematic issue that many of the men seem to personify in Purple Hibiscus and A Streetcar Named Desire. The wish to conform to a toxic patriarchal form of control and domination were brought…

A Streetcar Named Desire is the story of an emotionally-charged confrontation between characters embodying the traditional values of the American South and the aggressive, rapidly-changing world of modern America. The play, begun in 1945, went through several changes before reaching its final form. Although the…

Stanley Kowalski has a major role in the film adaptation “A Streetcar Named Desire” where audiences everywhere consider Stanley to be an egalitarian hero that possesses physical and mental strength. With these things in mind, it effectively shows his characterization throughout the whole story because…

Loneliness and isolation are themes explored in various differing ways throughout Tennessee William’s play ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’[1] (1947) and Colm Toibin’s novel ‘Brooklyn’[2] (2009), mainly through the way their protagonists are presented and developed. In ‘Brooklyn’ and ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’, loneliness is caused…

‘Mitch may be a weak character, but his treatment of Blanche is still disturbing and harmful.’ In light of this comment, explore Williams’ presentation of Mitch. In your answer you must consider relevant contextual factors. Mitch can be considered a weak character due to effeminate…