Tennessee Williams' successful drama,A Streetcar Named Desire is a world-classic.Its unique plot,well-established structure,and carefully arranged symbols and hints are so attracting that the drama and the charact...Tennessee Williams' successful drama,A Streetcar Named Desire is a world-classic.Its unique plot,well-established structure,and carefully arranged symbols and hints are so attracting that the drama and the characters has been studied and admired by readers around the world.To provide a detailed analysis of the character,this essay will discuss about and compare various aspect of the main character Blanche DuBois.展开更多
A Streetcar Named Desire, which has been widely accepted as the world-renowned work of Tennessee Williams, is a play with both of complexity and charm. After its publication, this play has attracted a lot of scholars ...A Streetcar Named Desire, which has been widely accepted as the world-renowned work of Tennessee Williams, is a play with both of complexity and charm. After its publication, this play has attracted a lot of scholars and critics to interpret and study on it from the different aspects of views. The present paper attempts to certificate that the main character Blanche, in this play, who is live in a social background with the highlights of the conflict between the American southern plantation culture and the northern industrial civilization, suffers from the consistent change of her living space, her original world continually encounters destruction and invasion. Therefore, she has to step into another world; and she has to survive among different world. In addition, through digging into and interpreting the character Blanche, it investigates that people are of suffering and pain when they were in the process of adjusting and adapting themselves from their original world to their present- living world, and all Blanche's roads lead to a tragic.展开更多
A Streetcar Named Desire is regarded as one of the most successful masterpieces of Tennessee Williams. An outstanding feature of the play is the wide use of symbolism. Symbols can be seen everywhere and even all the s...A Streetcar Named Desire is regarded as one of the most successful masterpieces of Tennessee Williams. An outstanding feature of the play is the wide use of symbolism. Symbols can be seen everywhere and even all the symbols in the play are con nected with the protagonist Blanche DuBois. Williams applies symbolism throughout the play to make Blanche's tragic fate more vivid to the readers. Her tragic fate lies in her clinging to illusion, thus she is bound to be abandoned by the harsh reality. There fore, the thesis attempts to give a comprehensive analysis of some specific symbols: symbols of illusion represented by the Chinese paper lantern and a paper moon, and symbol of reality represented by the light to further illustrate Blanche's tragically symbolic fate.展开更多
文摘Tennessee Williams' successful drama,A Streetcar Named Desire is a world-classic.Its unique plot,well-established structure,and carefully arranged symbols and hints are so attracting that the drama and the characters has been studied and admired by readers around the world.To provide a detailed analysis of the character,this essay will discuss about and compare various aspect of the main character Blanche DuBois.
文摘A Streetcar Named Desire, which has been widely accepted as the world-renowned work of Tennessee Williams, is a play with both of complexity and charm. After its publication, this play has attracted a lot of scholars and critics to interpret and study on it from the different aspects of views. The present paper attempts to certificate that the main character Blanche, in this play, who is live in a social background with the highlights of the conflict between the American southern plantation culture and the northern industrial civilization, suffers from the consistent change of her living space, her original world continually encounters destruction and invasion. Therefore, she has to step into another world; and she has to survive among different world. In addition, through digging into and interpreting the character Blanche, it investigates that people are of suffering and pain when they were in the process of adjusting and adapting themselves from their original world to their present- living world, and all Blanche's roads lead to a tragic.
文摘A Streetcar Named Desire is regarded as one of the most successful masterpieces of Tennessee Williams. An outstanding feature of the play is the wide use of symbolism. Symbols can be seen everywhere and even all the symbols in the play are con nected with the protagonist Blanche DuBois. Williams applies symbolism throughout the play to make Blanche's tragic fate more vivid to the readers. Her tragic fate lies in her clinging to illusion, thus she is bound to be abandoned by the harsh reality. There fore, the thesis attempts to give a comprehensive analysis of some specific symbols: symbols of illusion represented by the Chinese paper lantern and a paper moon, and symbol of reality represented by the light to further illustrate Blanche's tragically symbolic fate.
