A Streetcar Named Desire Tennessee Williams

Within ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ by Tennessee Williams, and ‘The Great Gatsby’ by Scott Fitzgerald, marriage is debated, and potentially condemned, in three different fashions. Interestingly despite the two pieces being written and based twenty...

Tennessee Williams portrays the character Stella as an adaptable character who has changed to fit in with her new surroundings in order to survive. She is also portrayed as a vulnerable possession, quite primal and driven by desire but also as a...

Tennessee Williams creates tension and conflict through oppositions in the play – he shows striking differences between the characters Stanley and Blanche, animalistic qualities, the contrast between the old world versus the new world and the...

Women holding onto their youth plays a significant role in Tennessee Williams’ play A Streetcar Named Desire which opened on Broadway in 1947 and in Notes on a Scandal published in 2003 by Zoe Heller. In both texts this theme is caused by many...

In many dramatic works, the use of barriers is crucial - they determine the play’s developments and how much it will affect the audience. This is certainly the case of “A Streetcar Named Desire” and “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”. The former,...