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    Tennessee Williams' play A Streetcar Named Desire explores the conflict between illusion and reality. Blanche Dubois lives in an illusory world to cope with her family's loss of status and wealth, as well as her husband's suicide. However, Stanley Kowalski sees through her illusions and reveals the truth about her past, destroying her plans to regain her status as a Southern lady. Despite living in a world of illusion, Stanley brings Blanche back to reality by violating her fragile femininity and exposing the decadence of the old Southern aristocracy she represents.

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    Tennessee Williams' play A Streetcar Named Desire explores the conflict between illusion and reality. Blanche Dubois lives in an illusory world to cope with her family's loss of status and wealth, as well as her husband's suicide. However, Stanley Kowalski sees through her illusions and reveals the truth about her past, destroying her plans to regain her status as a Southern lady. Despite living in a world of illusion, Stanley brings Blanche back to reality by violating her fragile femininity and exposing the decadence of the old Southern aristocracy she represents.

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    Tennessee Williams' play A Streetcar Named Desire explores the conflict between illusion and reality. Blanche Dubois lives in an illusory world to cope with her family's loss of status and wealth, as well as her husband's suicide. However, Stanley Kowalski sees through her illusions and reveals the truth about her past, destroying her plans to regain her status as a Southern lady. Despite living in a world of illusion, Stanley brings Blanche back to reality by violating her fragile femininity and exposing the decadence of the old Southern aristocracy she represents.

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    Tennessee WILLIAMS

    A STREETCAR
    NAMED
    DESIRE
    Adriana Stefana GMEZ
    Johana Andrea CRUZ

    Laura Estfani GARCA

    plan
    1. Tennessee Williams biography
    2. Presentation of the play
    3. Social context
    4. Thesis statement
    5. Definition of reality and illusion
    6. Arguments and evidences
    7. Conclusions

    Tennessee Williams
    Playwright Tennessee Williams was born on
    March 26, 1911, in Columbus, Mississippi.
    After college, he moved to New Orleans, a city
    that would inspire much of his writing. On
    March 31, 1945, his play, The Glass
    Menagerie, opened on Broadway and two
    years later A Streetcar Named Desire earned
    Williams his first Pulitzer Prize. Many of
    Williams' plays have been adapted to film
    starring screen greats like Marlon Brando and
    Elizabeth Taylor. Williams died in 1983.

    Social context

    A streetcar named desire

    Thesis statement
    Despite Blanche Dubois lives
    in a world of illusion, Stanley
    Kowalski brings her to reality
    by destroying her plan to
    recover her Southern Lady
    status.

    Definition of reality and


    illusion

    arguments
    1) Blanche Dubois shapes her own reality on order
    to survive and cope with some unpleasant
    situations. Blanche is despaired and lonely by
    the loss of her family home, Belle Rve, and the
    suicide of her husband Allan Gray. Therefore,
    she created an alternative reality based on her
    past glories as a refuge from the present and
    future. However, Stanley Kowalski does not
    believe in her and reveals the truth about
    Blanches dark past.
    Na

    Evidence No1
    Evidence No 2
    Evidence No 3

    2) Stanley Kowalski is the antithesis of


    the social reality Blanche Dubois
    represents. While she exemplifies
    the new migrant working class in
    modern America after World War II,
    her decline in the story illustrates
    the
    Old
    Southern
    aristocracys
    decadence.

    Evidence No1
    Evidence No 2
    Evidence No 3

    3) The sense of reality of the characters


    is influenced by their gender. The
    way in which Blanche and Stanley
    faced reality in the story are
    different. Whereas she expresses her
    fragile femininity throughout the
    play, he tends to demonstrate his
    masculinity by violence and sexual
    aggression. Blanches rapes
    by
    Stanley symbolizes the final violation
    of her world illusion.

    Evidence No1
    Evidence No 2
    Evidence No 3

    conclusions

    bibliography
    Mosaabad, A. The role of symbol in
    delivering the conflict between reality and
    illusion in Tennessee Williams A streetcar
    named desire. Canadian Center of Science
    and Education. Vol 1, No 2: December 2011.

    Sontag, I. Symbols of illusion and realism


    in Streetcar. Reality and illusion in
    Tennessee Williams A streetcar named desire.
    An analysis of frequent symbols seminar
    paper. Norderstedt, Germany: Grin Verlag
    Auflage, 2009

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