A Streetcar Named Desire Essays

12th Grade

A Streetcar Named Desire

When looking at A Streetcar Named Desire – a tragedy, after all – it is traditionally required that there should be a selected antagonist, a ‘villain’ so to speak. Stanley Kowalski, you could argue, is that ‘villain’. It is evident that throughout...

College

A Streetcar Named Desire

In most novels, the issue of passionate desire is examined and experimented as characters undergo various stages in their lives – either as the feverish seducer or the object of desire. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961), The Streetcar Named...

College

A Streetcar Named Desire

The climax of Tennessee William’s A Streetcar Named Desire occurs in “Scene Ten,” when Stanley ultimately rapes Blanche, his sister-in-law. Many audiences and readers have debated whether or not this act was premeditated or done impulsively, as to...

11th Grade

A Streetcar Named Desire

Throughout A Streetcar Named Desire, Blanche is caught between the contradictions of her own character and the society surrounding her. She persistently fights to conceal the truth of her personality and past, failing to comprehend the changing...

12th Grade

A Streetcar Named Desire

Tennessee Williams’s play, A Streetcar Named Desire, illustrates the struggle of power between economic classes and the changes taking place in America at that time, regarding social status. The constant tension between Blanche and Stanley...

12th Grade

A Streetcar Named Desire

To a great extent, Williams presents a clash between two cultures rather than one between two individuals. Witnessed in the play is the struggle between ‘Old Southern’ culture, whose values are embodied by protagonist Blanche Dubois and the new...