Main Themes: A street car named desire

Title: Main Themes: A street car named desire
Category: Literature / English | Words: 530 | Pages: 2.3 (approximately 235 words/page)

Main Themes: A street car named desire

Fantasy/Illusion: Blanche dwells in illusion; fantasy is her primary means of self-defense. Her deceits do not carry any trace of malice; rather, they come from her weakness and inability to confront the truth head-on. She tells things not as they are, but as they ought to be. For her, fantasy has a liberating magic that protects her from the tragedies she has had to endure. Unfortunately, this defense is frail and will be shattered …showed first 75 words of 530 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 530 total…dealing with it: she is always either trying to suppress it or pursuing it with abandon. Loneliness: The companion theme to desire; between these two extremes, Blanche is lost. She desperately seeks companionship and protection in the arms of strangers. And she has never recovered from her tragic and consuming love for her first husband. Blanche is in need of a defender. But in New Orleans, she will find instead the predatory and merciless Stanley.

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