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  • Essay / Characters in a Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams...

    Characters in a Streetcar Named DesireTennessee Williams was one of the greatest American playwrights of the 20th century. Most of his plays take us to the Southern States and show a confused society. In his works, he denounces the degeneration of human feelings and relationships. Its heroes suffer from broken families and cannot find their place in society. They tend to feel alone and afraid of everything around them. Major themes in his plays include racism, sexism, homophobia, and realistic settings filled with loneliness and pain.1 Tennessee Williams' characters showed us extremes of human brutality and sexual behavior.2 The one of his most popular dramas was written in 1947, and it is called A Streetcar Named Desire. The drama is essentially about a married couple - Stella and Stanley Kowalski - who are visited by Stella's older sister, Blanche. The drama shows the caustic feelings of these people putting Blance DuBois at the center. The drama tells the story of the pathetic mental and emotional demise of a determined, but fragile, repressed and delicate Southern lady, born into a once-wealthy Mississippi planter family.3 There is no doubt that Blanche's character is the most complex of the drama. She is a true tragic heroine. She is first presented as a symbol of innocence and chastity.4 She is both aristocratic and intelligent, sensitive and fragile, also beautiful and this delicate beauty has a moth-like appearance. But these positive characteristics are overshadowed by the fact that Blanche arrives in Elysian Fields, a poor neighborhood in New Orleans, on two streetcars, Desire and Cemeteries. These mysterious expressions, which can be considered the main symbols of the play, suggest that something is unclear around Blanhe or that something bad will happen towards the end. The Champs Elysees symbolize paradise beyond death according to ancient traditions,3 Desire expresses Blanche's desire to be loved and the cemeteries represent her fear of death.4Blanche represents a deep attachment to the past.5 His life is a lesson in how tragic events from the past can ruin a person's future. It is the death of her husband that affects her the most. Blanche was just a young girl with no experience when she married. She married Allan Grey, who was only sixteen years old. Their marriage started well, but later the young wife discovered that Allan was homosexual..