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…Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire was a powerful play for its time. Among the play's greatest achievements is the depiction of the psychology of working class characters. In plays of the time, depictions of working class life tended to focus…

…"A Streetcar Named Desire" vs. "Taming of the Shrew" Shakespeare’s writing was so profound and inspiring that his ideas continue to echo in the different plots and themes of many modern plays. The themes of sexuality, illusion, and marriage…

…Tracing Aristotle's tragic hero model in "King Lear" and "A Streetcar Named Desire": Aristotle defines tragedy as a form of drama which imitates noble people through artistically enhanced language and through pitiable and fearful incidents. According…

…The downfall of two of the main characters of A Streetcar Named Desire and Death of a Salesman are strikingly similar. In both plays, one of the main characters witnesses a devastating event which traumatizes them for the rest of their lives…

…The Evaluation of the Effects of Wars on the Personal Relationships in "A Streetcar Named Desire" by Tennessee Williams <Tab/> The Civil War and World War II are two of the outbreaks that have great significance on the American history…

…How different can two people who are sisters really be? Very different is the answer anyone would find when examining the differences between the main characters of the play A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams. The play’s main female…

…and sweep her off her feet. In the beginning Blanche lies to shield herself from the harsh truth of her situation, but gradually Blanche loses her touch of reality and many doubt her truth; ie her claim of being raped by Stanley. "A Streetcar Named Desire…

…In A Streetcar Named Desire, several of the characters use illusion to make themselves more sociably acceptable. This is true especially for Blanche Du Bois. She will lie, or "elude" any chance she gets if it will make her look good. Stella uses…

…The themes of Tennessee Williams's Streetcar Named Desire follow Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind: the emotional struggle for supremacy between two characters who sym - bolize historical forces, between fantasy and reality, between the Old South…

…Class conflict is represented throughout the play, A Streetcar Named Desire in various ways through characters, symbols, ideas and language. Characters such as Blanche, Stella, Mitch and Stanley are used throughout the text to represent the upper…