Tennessee Williams Use of Dramatic Devices To Create Contrast And Conf

Tennessee Williams Use of Dramatic Devices To Create Contrast And b prohibited In A Streetcar Named DesireTennessee Williams uses a number of striking devices to highlight theconflicting worlds of the old and new American South. These can bedivided into four categories staging, character and language, andprops and costumes. I will be using these categories for reference inthis sample. A Streetcar Named Desire is an example of the genrerealism. reality is fiction that is overtly gritty and realistic,showing real people in real situations, and also com custodyts on the stateof the world at that time. The revive is tidy sum shortly after the AmericanCivil War, which was fought over the right on to keep slaves the Southwanted to keep slaves on their plantations, working for free, only if theNorth wanted them to work in their factories, for a wage. The North(confederate) won the Civil War and immediately set aboutindustrializing the South. The dissemble is set in New Orleans, one ofthese newly industrialised areas. In this essay I will examine howTennessee Williams used these devices to create conflict in the midst of themain characters, to provide a social commentary on a changing America,and how these changes affect the main characters of the play.Tennessee Williams stages A Streetcar Named Desire extremelyeffectively, with much of the play set in the small, confined room ofthe apartmentStella With only ii rooms... (p.9)This instantly creates and intensifies tension because all thecharacters are forced to be constrictive together there is no privacy.When Blanche first enters the play, she is instantly incongruous andout of placeshe looks like she is dressed for a tea party (p.3)This contras... ...character she too is haunt with the idea of shoemakers last, and aging.Tennessee Williams even said once I am Blanche, which shows he hasbased her character heavily on himself they both view men asuncultured brutes, both have an obsession with death. Blanche has thisobsession because she had to learn her family, and her old way oflife, dying slowly. Now it seems to her like that time in her life wasall just a dream of illusion. This is illustrated in the editionof Belle Reve, which means literally Beautiful Dream. Blanchelosing Belle Reve represents her losing an illusion of life and beingbrought back megabucks to earth.In conclusion, through careful use of staging, props, costume andlanguage, Tennessee Williams creates a decently portrait of conflictbetween the old and new South, between death and desire, and betweenBlanche and Stanley.