Discussion on what extent the play "Streetcar Named Desire" by Tennesse Williams is a allegorical play.
Title: Discussion on what extent the play "Streetcar Named Desire" by Tennesse Williams is a allegorical play.
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Discussion on what extent the play "Streetcar Named Desire" by Tennesse Williams is a allegorical play.
Category: /Social Sciences/Sociology
Details: Words: 904 | Pages: 3 (approximately 235 words/page)
In the play, "Streetcar Named Desire", Tennessee Williams presents the allegory of the new, young, industrialized and more intensive working class thriving over the old and dying aristocratic southern society.
The play is centered on a struggle between Blanche Dubois and Stanley Kowalski. Blanche symbolizes the dying southern aristocratic society. She is cultured and refined and has "old fashioned ideals". She comes from a rich and elegant French family who owned a house called Belle
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about two societies clashing together and the modern America marching through the dying old traditional South. In the end, Stanley wins and destroys Blanche, symbolizing the old South being crushed by the working class of America. Although being rough, aggressive and unrefined, the blue-collar society wins, manages to comfort itself and keeps moving on. In the last scene, Eunice says: "Life has to go on, no matter what happens, you've got to keep on going"