Brutality and Deceit in A Streetcar Named Desire Essay -- Tennessee Wi

A Streetcar Named Desire is a soci entirelyy challenging admit in light of the way in which Tennessee Williams depicts the capacity of benevolent nature for brutality and deceit. He takes the viewpoint that, no matter how merged or civilized society is, all people will rely on their natural animal instincts, such as dominance and deception, to get themselves pop of trouble at some stage in life. Williams has created three main(prenominal) characters, Blanche Dubois, Stella Kowalski and Stanley Kowalski. Each of these characters is equally as civilized as the next, yet all are guilty of acts of savagery on different levels. Throughout the play Williams symbolically relates these three characters to animals, savages, through the disclosure of their attitudes, beliefs, appearances and desires. The most obvious good example of a savage in the play is Stanley Kowalski. He is a spectacular well-toned, territorial male with simple beliefs and a short temper. He does not have homo y manners and does not care what people come back of him. He seems very simple but there is more to him than meets the eye. Stanley feels imperil by Blanche not only because she has invaded his territory, but also because she is a monitor lizard to his wife of what she sacrificed to marry him and of the severe limitations on what he has been able to submit her in return (Adler 51). At first, Stanley acts physically dominant over both Blanche and Stella, by rifling through Blanches possessions (Williams 124), by quoting to Stella and Blanche that every man is a king (Williams 197-198), by throwing the radio out the window in a drunken frenzy and by actually striking his meaning(a) wife (Stella) (Williams 152-155). However, towards the end of the play, Stanley realizes his ... ...s that lifestyle that they shared in their youth. However, Stanley has shown her his world and she is caught amid the two, like a ping-pong ball. Ultimately Stanley wins the game, because of Stellas pri mal nature, her sexuality drive and her need to be dominated. It appears that Tennessee Williams has called for all the world to be informed of the fact that mankind is still a member of the animal dry land in spite of societys efforts to cloak his primal urges and someways give the appearance that he is above the other animals. Works Cited Adler, doubting Thomas P. A Streetcar Named Desire The Moth and the Lantern. New York Twayne, 1990. Kazan, Elia. Twentieth Century Interpretations of A Streetcar Named Desire. Ed. Jordan Miller. New Jersey Prentice-Hall, 1971. Williams, Tennessee. A Streetcar Named Desire. Stuttgart Phillipp Reclam, 1988.