Decline of Blanche DuBois in Tennessee Williams A Streetcar Named Desi

The Unnecessary Decline of Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named go for Upon reviewing the drama, A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, it would appear that the character of Blanche DuBois is congruous of closer inspection. With her previous occupation as a teacher of American literature and her former social status being that of a cultured woman of the very traditional Old due south, Blanche could be any benignant being transferring from one culture to another with customs far diametric from the ones being left behind. Even today it could happen that someone is curtly confronted with a totally new and different value system with which he must learn to cope in order to be judge into his new environment. That is the situation in which Blanche finds herself. After close inspection of the piece of A Streetcar Named Desire, it appears that the course of the play could quite easily grant been turned from decline and tragedy to rescue and triumph for Blanche DuBois wit h only a few minor adjustments. A streetcar named Desire brought Blanche to the last situation of her decline. Blanches spine or leitmotif is find Protection the tradition of the Old southwest says that it must be through with(predicate) another person... her problem has to do with her tradition... the affaire about the tradition in the 19th century was that it worked then (Donahue 30). only when today Blanche cant feel safe within the bounds of the Old South traditions anymore. On the contrary ...it tradition makes Blanche feel alone, outside of her society. Left out, insecure, shaky (Donahue 32). In the exposition of the play, Blanche arrives in her new environment and does not feel the least bit comfortable when she sees how her sister lives. Blanche p... ...n mind and body because a society is only as strong as its weakest link. Williams knew this and had a great go for to help those less fortunate than he. He tried to do this through his works, by calling attention to the problems that many people faced on a daily basis, thereby forcing his audiences to choose to either ignore the problems or to do something to bring about change. Works Cited Bloom, Herald (ed.). Tennessee Williams. new-made York Chelsea House, 1987. Donahue, Francis. The melodramatic World of Tennessee Williams. New York Frederic Ungar Publishing Co., 1964. Hirsch, Foster. A Portrait of the Artist-The Plays of Tennessee Williams. London Kennikat Press, 1979. Londre, F.H. Tennessee Williams. New York Frederic Ungar Publishing Co., 1979. Williams, Tennessee. A Streetcar Named Desire. Stuttgart Phillip Reclam, 1988.