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A Study of A Streetcar Named Desire
英语语言文学
张雪
07562003
Tennessee Williams
Tennessee Williams (born Thomas Lanier Williams, March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983) was an American playwright who received many of the top theatrical awards for his works of drama. He moved to New Orleans in 1939 and changed his name to "Tennessee", the state of his father's birth.
Awards
He won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for A Streetcar Named Desire in 1948 and for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof in 1955. In addition, The Glass Menagerie (1945) and The Night of the Iguana (1961) received New York Drama Critics' Circle Awards. His 1952 play The Rose Tattoo received the Tony Award for best play.
A Streetcar Named Desire
When A Streetcar Named Desire premiered at the Ethel Barrymore Theater in New York, it shocked its audience and there exists lots of disputation in the critics in many aspects: sexuality, homosexuality, rape, loneliness, insanity and so on. It is probably the one mostly identified with the dramatists and certainly the one that has elicited the most mentary. It fulfilled the promise of the early work and catapulted Williams to the front rank of the American dramatists.
Plot
The first three chapter of Part one present a scrutiny of the multifarious aspects of Blanche. Chapter one “Blanche and Stanley: Two Polar opposites” discusses the patibility and antagonism of these two major characters, and reveals on a deeper stratum three dichotomies that are embodied by the two polar opposites: Fantasy Vs. Reality, Old South Vs. New South, and Civilized Vs. Primitive.
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Chapter Two “Blanche and Stella: Two Southern Gentlewomen” starts with parison between the sisters and then discusses in length Blanche’s aspect of desire.
Chapter three “Blanche and Mitch: Two Lonely Souls” deals with Blanche’s short-lived romance with Mitch, and analyses the stratifications of Blanche’s identity.
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Chapter Four “Ambiguity in Streetcar” examines plexity and ambiguity that pervade Streetcar, n