Street Car Named Desire
"Our fears are more numerous than our dangerous and we suffer more in our imaginations than in reality" Seneca. With the distorions of senses and the desertion of reality, originates illusion. In Hindu philosophy, the word "Maya" (illusion) indicates "what is not", along with falsehood. By misleading reality, it's common for some people to live in illusion. In the play, A street car named desire, Tenesseee Williams unravels the story of a declining though physically appealing woman masking her cruel reality with the disguisement of fantasy. In opposition to the philosphy of Stanley, her brother in law, who maintains a life abundant in reality, distant from lies and illusion.
Throughout the caracters of the play, Tenessee Williams confronts realism with illusion, demonstating fantasy's incompetence for overpowering the truth as well as reality's disfunctionality without fantasy. Initially, Blanche, one of the two main caracter of the play, is a highschool english teacher until she was dismissed from her job. She is shown as a snob and a coquettish woman, however her insecurites, self doubt and uncertainty are displayed in the following scenes of the play. This woman is exposed as living in a imaginary world in which she creates the narration in her mind. One of her constant lies she informs herself is first demonstrated by her bad drinking problem. "She springs up and crosses to it, and removes a whiskey bottle. She pours a half tumbler of whiskey and tosses it down. She carefully replaces the bottle and washes out the tumbler at the sink" (1.71). Throughout these underhanded actions, Blanche unfolds her unreal motifs and way of living in which she tries to hide her drinking problem from herself and from everyone around her as a sort of a mask that cloacks her unconforming habit that contradicts her aristocratic persona from Bellereve. The reader is later informed of
Balnche's erronous past. Her homosexual husband commit suicide years
Throughout the caracters of the play, Tenessee Williams confronts realism with illusion, demonstating fantasy's incompetence for overpowering the truth as well as reality's disfunctionality without fantasy. Initially, Blanche, one of the two main caracter of the play, is a highschool english teacher until she was dismissed from her job. She is shown as a snob and a coquettish woman, however her insecurites, self doubt and uncertainty are displayed in the following scenes of the play. This woman is exposed as living in a imaginary world in which she creates the narration in her mind. One of her constant lies she informs herself is first demonstrated by her bad drinking problem. "She springs up and crosses to it, and removes a whiskey bottle. She pours a half tumbler of whiskey and tosses it down. She carefully replaces the bottle and washes out the tumbler at the sink" (1.71). Throughout these underhanded actions, Blanche unfolds her unreal motifs and way of living in which she tries to hide her drinking problem from herself and from everyone around her as a sort of a mask that cloacks her unconforming habit that contradicts her aristocratic persona from Bellereve. The reader is later informed of
Balnche's erronous past. Her homosexual husband commit suicide years