Blanche Dubois In Tennessee Williams A Streetcar Named Desire

In plays, no one arrives or leaves from the stage without contributing in some way to the complexity of the play. Considering two or three plays you have studied, compare the impact on meaning of some arrivals and departures from the stage.

Characters invest the play with human interest, as they provide an added element to the plot. Set in a post World War II ambiance, ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’, by Tennessee Williams, he focuses upon his own personal demons embedded into the characters embarking on a metaphorical self-journey of destruction ironic to the title itself. Blanche’s presence in the Kowalski household gradually casted light on her illicit past, when she “always depended on the kindness of strangers”. This is no different to ‘A

While in the beginning, she was constantly portrayed as a promiscuous woman, the audience later learns the reason behind her excessive drinking and obsessive protection of her age and appearance. Her actions serve as a driving force for the plot and heighten the tension in the climaxes of the play.

Similarly, Nora Helmer in ‘A Doll’s House’, spends most of the first of the first act, portraying a character, whose life is constructed of societal norms and expectations of others, with little personality of her own. Whilst, she is innocent and exhibits several child-like qualities, the audience is confronted by her minor act of deception, that she is quite capable of lying. When Torvald asks her, “not even taken a bite at a macaroon or two?” she denies it whole-heartedly, as she had secretly purchased

Rank suffers from "tuberculosis of the spine", which was passed down to him by his father. Thus, he is suffering because of the actions of others and can not escape events from the past, mirroring the way events in Krogstad 's past are inescapable for him, and the way each character in the play suffers in some way because of the actions of another. Dr. Rank 's deteriorating health throughout the play also parallels the deteriorating marriage between Torvald and Nora, and his will to seclude himself while dying to avoid having anyone see him at his worst and weakest parallels Torvald 's desperation to keep up the appearance of a happy marriage even when he realizes how much Nora 's actions have cost him. Since it is known to the audience, that both, Torvald and Dr. Rank are in love with Nora, but in differing ways, they are able to build a contrast between appearance and reality, which is a recurring idea of ‘A Doll’s