Category: A Streetcar Named Desire

The word symbol, derived from the Greek verb symballein, to throw together, is an animate or inanimate object that represents or stands for something else.1 They use a concrete image to express implicit ideas or emotions, to be interpreted by the reader. In the 20th Century, for instance, the United States used Uncle Sam as…

Analytical Essay Look closely at Blanches monologue in Scene One on page 12 from A Streetcar Named Desire, starting with I, I took the blows in my face and my body! until the end of the scene. Discuss in detail the way in which Tennessee Williams presents Blanche in this extract, considering how it reflects…

A Streetcar Named Desire written By Tennessee Williams in 1947. In A Streetcar named Desire Williams uses a range of drama devices to present Blanches deterioration mind. Drama devices are techniques used by playwrights to substitute for the reality presented to the audience through performance, and give the audience information they could not get from…

The notion of gender is fundamental to both the texts of A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams and A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini. They each centralise female characters who face oppression at the hands of their superior male counterparts as well as the pressures of surrounding society. Despite certain similarities, the unique…

In a society where sex is consistently consumed in our daily media, its hard to conceptualize a time period when sex was a taboo conversation spoken only behind closed doors. From the late 1800s until the mid-1900s, sexual promiscuity was a subject not often spoken aloud. It was considered dirty and perverse to speak of…

Many playwriters use Symbolism as of technique in their plays to obtain a dramatic affect and allow playwrights to give their audience a more meaningful understanding of the play on a different extent; this makes the play more fascinating. Symbolism can be used to add tension to a scene, to foreshadow certain events in a…

Subsequent to the great depression, Americas economy quickly collapsed and many lives were taken during the time. This led to many individuals being left homeless with little to no money on hand. Today the great depression is remembered as a big mistake and downfall of America which claimed many lives. Many authors have portrayed the…

Sometimes trying your best isnt enough. The film A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry’s is based on The Youngers who are an African-American family living in the southside of Chicago. The family lives in a low income apartment structure that only has only one bathroom per floor. The Youngers family is faced with…

The illustration of Trauma Theory and stigmatization has recently been the center of academic discussions as well as theatre productions. Trauma holds a central role in Sydneys Theatre Company A Streetcar Named Desire. One of the reasons why the play has a poignant and affecting stimulus is because, through creative vision, performance and stage directions…