“A Streetcar named Desire” is a play written by Tennessee Williams in which the central character is flawed but nevertheless gains admiration from the reader. It is written about Blanche DuBois, a woman who comes to New Orleans to live off her sister’s charity after losing the family home through her promiscuous past. Williams makes awareness of the flaw and creates admiration of the character through his use of characterisation, contrast, conflict, key scenes and aspects of staging.
Tbis famous play of 1947 revolves around the iconic, tragicomic character of Blanche DuBois, a washed-up Southern Belle and disgraced high school teacher, who finds herself staying with her sister Stella and her uncouth husband Stanley Kowalski, in a seedy tenement in New Orleans. The tragedy and the bitter comedy of Blanche’s character lie in her disconnection from reality. The grandiosity and glamour with which Blanche surrounds
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In "“Tiger-Tiger!" Blanche’s Rape on Screen," Nancy M. Tischler describes the contemporary controversy that surrounded the rape of Blanche and the resulting doubts that the Hollywood film would get past the censor. Playwright Lillian Hellman was drafted in to suggest amendments to the script that would make the play more acceptable. Her proposed solutions included making the rape, in fact, a product of Blanche’s diseased imagination. Like Stella, the American audience was presumed to find it easier to dismiss Blanche as a lying madwoman, a malign disrupter of a poor but respectable home, than to confront the scenario that a man might rape his sister-in-law and get away with it. Williams himself adamantly refused to have the rape written out, insisting that it was central to the meaning of the play, which was about “the ravishment of the tender, the sensitive, the delicate, by the savage and brutal forces of modern