Play Blogs

Streetcar Named Desire is a play by Tennessee Williams that I decided to read on my own individual time. This play has so many themes that it can be hard to connect it to just one story sometimes. In order to really get it to click in your brain you have to look at the deeper meaning and see what the book is really trying to say. Today I will be connecting this play to the book Oedipus by Sophocles that we read as a group in class. In Oedipus he left his “biological” family in Corinth to move to a new country that he became the king of called Thebes. When he got to Thebes he ended up creating more drama for himself when he ended up killing his biological father. Overall he ends up running away from his family. Although Blanche's story is not exactly like that it is pretty similar. Blanche leaves her home in Belle Reve after her family ends up all passing away (1.1.26). Blanche first decided to leave after living by herself without her family for a while. After she gets evi...

In the play Streetcar Named Desire many events happened in the story that had major effects and led to other events. If just one detail was changed the whole play could have taken a completely different direction. What could have happened let's say if someone died that was not supposed to. Say Stanley ended up in a bar fight and got beat to death in act one, that would have saved Blanche from some major trauma. Being raped dramatically took a toll in Blanche’s life and literally drove her crazy to the point of going to a mental hospital. Although if Stanley passed Stella would not have been to well off and she probably would have been super depressed. Another scenario would be if Stanley did not tell Mitch about the rumors “I wouldn't be expecting Mitch over tonight” (7.103). Mitch and Blanche could have gotten married and moved in together in order for her to avoid the drama with Stanley. Stanley being the horrible man he is probably only told Mitch because of the...

In class individually we had to read a play. I chose to read the play Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams. This play is about a girl named Blanche who moves in with her sister Stella and her husband. During her stay many bad things happen to them as a “family”. This represents cruelty. Cruelty is shown throughout this play multiple times. Between Blanche deliberately hurting Stella and telling her she did not do anything to help Belle Reve stay theirs and Stanley raping Blanche at the end of the play. In Williams play there are many ways to hurt someone and some may be worse than others. “I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.” (1.3.60) In this quote Blanche talks about how she hates getting treated mean but the irony is she treats everyone else around her mean. Although some of Blanche's remarks are not meant to intentionally hurt Stella they do. Along with Blanche being so harsh another character who shows these...