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Comparing A Midsummer's Night Dream And A Streetcar Named Desire

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In the two plays, A Midsummer’s Night Dream and A Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams and William Shakespeare show majorly how different characters show the traits of being actually in love and how other characters confuse love with physical tendencies instead. Going more in debt of how different characters show these traits differ tremendously.
One of the major themes in A midsummer’s Night Dream is love. Something that Shakespeare uses often in well known plays. Shakespeare navigates how people fall in love with others through appearances. The main point of the play that shakespeare was trying to say is that real love is much more than being attracted to someone for their physical appearance. Shakespeare uses the characters to display that at first some may think they love because the attraction to someone is powerful, but getting to know the person makes the other repulsed by their partner. Shakespeare makes it clear that love …show more content…

A major theme in ,A Streetcar Named Desire is well, desire. One of the main characters seem to not believe this at first, thinking that physical intimacy is love not emotional intimacy.. Also a main conflict in the play is between real love and imagination. The way Williams uses both of lust and death compares the two, this is used throughout the whole play. Every time the main character has sexual encounters, is getting closer to death. “But there are things that happen between a man and a woman in the dark- that sort of make everything else seem unimportant.” Stella is describing her intense love for stanley, only physical attraction, not emotional. Blanche describes this as desire, but pretends that she does not know what that is or is not familiar

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In the film portrayal of the play A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, the director Elia Kazan brings the play to life. Even though some of the original content in the play needed to be slightly modified due to taboos that existed during the time period that the movie was released, Streetcar is brought to life in this black and white film. Viewers who may have previously read the original play by Tennessee Williams will find the movie not only pleasant to watch but also true to the ideals and characters that Williams wrote about in the original text. In the play, many important themes exist and can easily be identified throughout all 11 scenes of the play.

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The characters I will be focusing on are Blanche and Stella. I will be working on the similarities and differences between Blanche and Stella. I will be using references from the story A Streetcar Named desire. Blanche Dubois in my opinion Is the main character of the play. Although Stella also plays A major role in the story.

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Stanley feels the threat to his marriage after the big fight he has with Stella after the poker game. Stanley feels as if he is losing control over Stella and believes Blanche is the one to blame for Stellas behaviour becoming different. An example of this was shown when Stella turned on the radio in the bedroom and was talking to Blanche while the man were playing poker in the next room. Stanley was demonstrating his domactis over Stella whe he asked her to “turn the radio off and hush up” Stella replied saying “this is my house ,i 'll talk as much as I want too”. Stanley has a set illusion of Throughout Blanche 's stay at his house, he feels that she has drunk his liquor, eaten his food, used his house and felt that she still had the nerve to disrepresent him in his own house.

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She is in denial that her marriage is broken even though Blanche does her best to convince her otherwise. Since Stella and Stanley have been married so long, Stella has become immune to Stanley’s violence and has learned to accept his issues rather than put a stop to his abusive tendencies. Although she does let him know when his actions upset her, she forgives too quickly for her message is to truly get through to him. Her current living situation is so drastically different from the one she had growing up, that in her mind the only way to be happy is to lower her standards and make compromises. Growing up in the lavish mansion of Belle Reve would have made the transition to living in a small, one bedroom apartment particularly difficult for her.

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Stanley’s sexuality affects Stella and Blanche heavily throughout the play. Blanche’s own sexuality and that of her late husband’s also contributes significantly to her life. The interactions between the main characters amplify the statement that sexuality is a primitive, powerful force, capable of creating or destroying life. The relationship between Stanley and Stella Kowalski is an example of the power of sexuality’s ability to create life.

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In this event, it also shows how Blanche desires to be with Mitch. This is shown by the quote “I want his respect… I want to deceive enough to make him-want me”. This even shows the illusion of how Blanche tries to repay that moment where she believes she is the person who caused her husband’s death. To correct the wrongs she has done. This behavior of her desires also shows how she is living in an illusion trying to recreate her relationship with her husband.

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Stanley continues to impose his reality onto Blanche, which causes her more anxiety relying more and more on herself to create more of an illusion by creating an admirer for herself, saying that she ended it with Mitch because she does not deserve “deliberate cruelty”, and crating this alter ego for herself as being pure. While Stella is in the hospital, he and Blanche are left alone for the night as she continues bragging about her admiration coming from Sheep Hunt Leigh and how she just got a wire from him. Stanley catches her in her life, finally tearing apart Blanche's illusions. Although Stanley has been a threat to her through his suspicion and empowering masculinity over her, the last scene is where he finally takes final control over her, or symbolically where reality has a final triumph over her illusions. While catching her in the midst of her lies she reveals to Blanche that “[he’s] been on to [Blanche] from the start!”

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he says: “not once did you pull any wool over this boy’s eyes!” Not only Stanley had broken her world of illusion, but also Mitch who is influenced by Stanley and destroys the protection of darkness by exposing her to the bright light. Stanley bringing up the past contributes to how Blanches ends up, alone and insane expressing the theme that what happened in the past determines the present, and illusion and fantasy directly correlate. Though reality triumphs over fantasy in A Streetcar Named Desire, when the truth comes colliding down on Blanche, she has no choice but to go insane ultimately avoiding the acceptance of

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