A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE by tennessee

The conflict created when the will of an individual pposes the will of the majority is the recurring theme of many novels, plays, and essays. Select the work of an essayist who is in opposition to his or her society; or from a work recognized literary merit, select a fictional character who is in opposition to her society . In a critical essay, analyze the conflict and discuss the moral and ethical implication for both the individual and the society.

Blanche DeBois was a lady that grew up with a pretty high standard living raised with good manners and strict morals and when she moves into her sisters house in New Orleans these teaching are out of place. blanch had many problems that caused her to collapse into somebody else and she tried to reestablish her conduct by running away from her ordinary life at Bele Reve.

Stella, sister of Blanche. moved to New Orleans and set down with a man, Stanly. The man who really places the society that New Orleans is and it characteristics. It is a place of mare freedom of spirit and takes things down to a society where more human like instincts are taken as a norm. Blanche wants to reset her old self as a good girl with discipline and control. She establishes them very well but thy are not welcomed in this society of more liberal ways. She is for that society a step back into the old days were things were never expected to be. The biggest link to the human instinctive primitives ways is Stanley and so he is the one that takes Blanche more as an outsider that should leave. Blanche feels out of place but refuses to lit her instinctive human ways out so that she fits into this society and things become complicated for her and she builds her own tomb stone. Blanche tries to build a relationship but it is set upon lies and contradictions since her past is not a good source. This is her attempt to build herself with what she considers an uncivil society. Again Stanley is the source that reminds her that she is not from that place and she is not welcomed with her unforgettable past. Blanche's relationship is the biggest wreck that causes her to fail and thin pertain to none of the societies since she killed her reputation where she came from and was a fake in her new attempt to fit in

Blanche ends up being crazy since both society's ban her from them since she has not yet found out who she really is and what she wants from life. Her life was not easy and she did not take the falls she took as a way to get up stronger, instead she took them as no more options to success.

The Movie

Adapted by Oscar Saul and won four Oscars eeleven other wins and fourteen nominations was A Street Car Named Desire as a movie. It wa released December the first 1951 as previously insinuated it was a very big hit. The movie is very similar to the play since it has always been acted out. It caused alot of controversy for its plotline but it was well recieved by many. It was very controversial because it displayed society as fasle and brutal with no morals what so ever and the ending was not at all a happy ending and lies conquered at the end. Past the controversy it caused it was a very good adaptation and well worth being made as an honoring to the play.

Blanche DuBois

Blanche is the main character of this story which may be catagorized as a tragedy. Blanche was a women who was on the border line of being catagorized as crazy when she got to New Orleans to see her sister. She was a lieing women that created a life of her own just to feel better about her past at Belle Reve. She was a teacher and invented she had an early release from her job but the reality was that she had been caught having sexual relations with a seventeen year old student. She ends up at a mental institution because Stanley breaks through her false identity in front of a man who was going to marry her. After being set as crazy by everyone Stanley rapes her and noone believes her and that is when she goes to the institution. Blanche is a charater that completely changes through out the play since at the begining she seemeed unbreakable.

Stanley Kowalski

Stanley is probably one of the most importantcharacters in this play. He is very often compared to being a barbarian man he is linked to Blanche through Stella. He and Blanche do not get along since they are but complete opposites. Stanley is the new classification of and American man since he is careless, violent, and does not cover his imotions for anything or anyone. He is a Polack and of their characteristics and he has Stella living in what Blanche calls poor conditions. The main point of this character is that he contradicts all of Blanches beliefs and standards. Stanley is also the one who ends up ruining Blanches life and strive for happiness.

Publication Info

A Streetcar Named Desire is a stage play with plentiful to keep you reading until the end. It was published and performed in 1947 was a great hit and was despised by religious members of the church. The reason it was not accepted by these people was its sacrilegous actions.

Tennessee Williams

A man who created intriguing characters that left everyone crazy over them and their unforgetable personalities was Tennessee Williams. This man had many problems of his own that seem to make a connections with himself and his characters like their senselessness. Williams had alcohol problems and as well drug addiction issues which is why this man was able to depict the personalities of his characters the way he did. He won two Pulitzer Prizes and four New York Drama Critics' Circle Awards and is known as one of America's favorite playwrights.