a streetcar named desire
Look again at scene one, including stage directions. Do you find that The Scene prepares an audience for what is The first scene introduces us to the major characters and themes of the play. The three major characters being Blanche, Stella and Stanley. The themes include madness, jealousy, death and the Old World changing into the new. Scene one introduces us to the environment, disrupts the Kowalski household as Blanche arrives and appears to resolve it as Stanley “accepts” Blanche. The action focuses on the Kowalski home almost entirely preserving the concept of unity of place laid down by Aristotle. The setting uses symbolic name references, is claustrophobic to increase the tension and is poetically detailed through description. The title of the play, “A Streetcar Named Desire” is a metaphor for what has happened and what is still going to happen to happen to Blanche. Her first line encapsulates this: “They told me to take a streetcar named Desire, and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at – Elysian Fields!” The name “Elysian Fields” represents death. This is symbolic because this place is going to bring the death of Blanche’s sanity. The setti
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Approximate Word count = 1731
Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page double spaced)
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