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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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