A Streetcar Named Desire
Desire: a strong feeling of want as opposed to need

Title: A streetcar is like a tramway, which has a track signifying that Blanche, Stella, Mitch and Stanley have already there life decided for them, as soon as they step on this streetcar, they can’t get off the track.
Pseudonym: Williams chose the name Tennessee Williams, because it is in the south, where lives the poorer population, because the plantations were destroyed. Belle reave represents the plantation the servants. Williams was from the Deep South. -The scenes go forward through revelations from the past
Themes/Ideas

Desire:
-Stella and Stanley
-Blanche and her lovers such as Mitch
-names like the street
Example, Quote:
Blanche: “if you’re not desired you might as well be dead”
We see that Stanley is not the kind of person who live for love and desire.

The south:
-old World (Blanche), doesn’t let Mitch sleep with, just lets him have a kiss, very old fashioned, she creates an illusion: sleeps with her student vs
New World (Stanley), he represents immigration
= when Blanche arrives she is dressed like she is going to a cocktail tea party, her facial expression of disbelief regarding the place her sister is living in, and her actions.
Stanley owns a radio, a house , his wife. It is his way to dominate. He needs to work to own something but Blanche gets things by heritage like Belle Reve.

-the inequality within couples: the full control of a husband over his wife
-Illusion VS Reality
When Blanche arrives she is dressed in a very fancy dress, the stage directions reveal she is 5 years older than her sister, although she always pretends she is younger than her sister.
Light “that suggests a moth”: paper lantern / only night time. She searches light. Allan Grey, Stella+Stanley have coloured lights.
When the joke has a sexual connotation she seems out of place and confused.

-loneliness/family
She is driven away by society: “they told me to…”. The