Essay on Gender Roles in A Streetcar Named Desire

Since than everything changes for the married couple. There is a sign of controversy between Stanleys and Blanches characters. We can see that there are signs of hate shown as well as jealousy between them. Blanche calls Stanley an animal and she tries continuously to separate her sister Stella from her uneducated husband at the scene when Stanley was at work and Blanche was trying to convince Stella that he is not what she deserved, whereas Stanley behaves in a really aggressive and impolite way with Blanche since she first came in the house, and that is very noticeable when he is searching her luggage for clothes that he believed that were made of solid gold or diamonds and when he mentions the Napoleon code. Stella, who is mainly described as the neutral person in this situation, feels embarrassed when Stanley looks through Blanches stuff and nervous when Blanche talks to her about Stanleys behaviours etc.

Similar to Stanley, Blanche also faces a power struggle. Her ultimate downfall is a result of Stanley’s cruelty and lack of understanding for human fragility. Comments about Stanley’s ‘animal habits’ and ‘sub-human’ nature act as the agent of Blanche’s downfall. Stanley cannot deal with her mocking him in his own home and is fed up with her lies. During the final scenes his

“Stella has embraced him with both arms, fiercely, and full in the view of Blanche. He laughs and clasps her head to him. Over her head he grins through the curtains at Blanche.” (Williams 73) A Streetcar Named Desire written by Tennessee Williams exemplifies the theme of a struggle to attain happiness. The play not only portrays this theme in its characters and setting, but through the literary devices of Foil, Imagery, and Intertextuality. Williams took great care in applying each of these literary device techniques to the theme as he presents an intriguing contrast between Blanche and Stanley, vivid images both animalistic and broken, and imploring the use of the Odyssey to further

Stereotypical gender roles have existed as long as human culture has, becoming a natural part of our lives. Nevertheless, images and depictions of what we perceive to be either masculine or feminine in appearance and behaviour depend on the individual's perception. Within each gender lies a variety of stereotypes and expectations, most notably for men they are often depicted as tough and the family provider. Whereas women are often shown to be soft and vulnerable resulting in their dependence on men. The play A Streetcar Named Desire takes place in the 1950s in New Orleans following World War II, this violent and dramatic play discusses the ongoing struggle between men and women within the American society. The author; Tennessee Williams illustrates this struggle within the usage of the main characters, Stanley and Stella Kowalski, Harold Mitchell and Blanche Dubois. Although gender equality has improved immensely as the decades bypass, certain labels still continue to remain for both genders. In this time period, Tennessee Williams illustrates the expected roles for both men and women, and how these roles influence

In many modern day relationships between a man and a woman, there is usually a controlling figure that is dominant over the other. It may be women over man, man over women, or in what the true definition of a marriage is an equal partnership. In the play A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams Stanley is clearly the more dominant figure over Stella. Throughout the play there are numerous examples of the power he possesses of her. Williams portrays Stella as a little girl who lives around in Stanley’s world. She does what he wants, takes his abuse yet still loves him. Situations likes these may have occurred in the 1950’s and lasted, but in today’s time this would only end up in a

In fall of 2013 the female voice of apple software "Siri" became available in a male's voice. It was seen that people throughout the US were more comfortable listening to a males voice because of the perception that it was somehow intelligent and able to provide more correct information. Applying gender stereotypes to a nonpartisan digital party shows the extent of how gender stereotypes seen throughout history are still alive and well today. In classic literature such as Shakespeare's "Anthony and Cleopatra" and Tennesee Williams "Streetcar Named Desire", both authors display gender stereotypes in their female leads. Although in both works the female is seen as a strong lead character, both works display the woman as allowing their emotions get in the way of their rational thought processes,

Gender roles and expectations have a lot of impacts on our society and it needs to be changed in order to create a better civilisation. Although our society has ameliorated tremendously in the past years, there are still some discriminatory actions among genders that are affecting someone 's life negatively. Any remaining differential between genders need to be changed for a better moral standard of living.

Stanley not only shows hostility towards Blanche’s entrance, but directs his anger towards Stella by hitting her on the thigh after she suggest for him to end his poker game. Blanche’s influence causes disturbance again when Mitch gets distracted with a conversation with her and by her sensual silhouette produced by the curtain. Again, Stanley becomes extremely angered because of Blanche’s interference. The interruptions to the poker game do not end there, however. Blanche then becomes more annoying by playing loud rhumba music.

Social upheaval in many senses was explicit through the beginning of the twentieth century; two world wars had - for a short time - shifted the balance of power between men and women. Women were increasingly employed to fill positions which had previously been considered masculine. This was not to last however, and by the fifties men had reassumed their more dominant role in society. People were finding new voices at this time by taking pre-existing forms and pushing the boundaries to re-voice established literary forms. Tennessee Williams wrote A Streetcar Named Desire around the time this reversal was occurring in American society. Williams was a homosexual from the deep south of America, and his play is about physical, emotional

The roles and representations of the women are shown to have changed dramatically, reflected through contrasting roles women take within the Traditional period of the 1940’s and the Contemporary Period of the 1980’s to the present. Tennessee Williams’ play “A Streetcar Named Desire”, explores the submissive and dependent roles of a women, while exploring how rebellion against societal norm can ostracise. Contrasted by John Lee Hancock ’s biopic, “The Blind Side”, which juxtaposes these values by showing women in positions of empowerment.

There is an unprecedented change in the roles of men and women in the past few decades. More and more women are being considered as equals or even greater than men, this is an accomplishment that took almost all of recorded human history! This recent change was brought upon by a collective effort from authors, playwrights, actors and changes in the values of the general populace. One such instance of changes in gender roles were penned by Tennessee Williams. In his play, A Streetcar Named Desire, Williams details the life of a couple whose relationship is held only by the physical attraction between them.

The play A Streetcar Named Desire revolves around Blanche DuBois; therefore, the main theme of the drama concerns her directly. In Blanche is seen the tragedy of an individual caught between two worlds-the world of the past and the world of the present-unwilling to let go of the past and unable, because of her character, to come to any sort of terms with the present. The final result is her destruction. This process began long before her clash with Stanley Kowalski. It started with the death of her young husband, a weak and perverted boy who committed suicide when she taunted him with her disgust at the discovery of his perversion. In retrospect, she knows that he was the only man she had ever loved, and from this early catastrophe

This 1950's theatrical presentation was directed by Elia Kazan and written by Tennessee Williams. It is about a southern bell by the name of Blanche Dubois who loses her father's plantation to a mortgage and travels to live in her sister's home in New Orleans by means of a streetcar called Desire. There she finds her sister living in a mess with a drunken bully husband, and the events that follow cause Blanche to step over the line of insanity and fall victim to life's harsh lessons.

Streetcar Named Desire took place in “New Orleans which is names Elysian Fields and runs between the L & N tracks and the river.” It’s a poor neighborhood where full of decay and Belle Rave this is the name of Blanche’s family home in mississippi. It represent the “Beautiful dream” that Blanche wish but she never experiences. Whereas Blanche arrives in New Orleans as a somewhat broken woman, she keeps alive her desire to be with a man and to lead a life as an elegant, respectable women. Also see herself as higher class. In New Orleans where her sister named Stella lives with her husband named Stanley and she came to stay with them. Blanche who like to listen to music, drink, smoke, take bath in hot water and try be fancy she used the Chinese lantern and all this means something that is really massive. Symbols

The great disparity between the societal roles of men and women within different historical contexts, is a controversial topic that has been explored by literary masterpieces from all time periods. A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams is a post-World War Two play set in New Orleans, Louisiana. It focuses on the lives of Stella and Stanley, a stereotypical post-war American couple, and Blanche, Stella’s sister who intrudes in the couple’s home and ultimately in their marriage. A Doll’s House, a play written by Henrik Ibsen, a Norwegian playwright, in the year 1879, also manifests the male-female dynamic. The play depicts Nora, a wife and mother who lies to keep her marriage and her family together, yet is shunned for her sacrifices