Fantasy and Delusion in A Streetcar Named Desire
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- Fantasy & Delusion in A Streetcar Named Desire
- Blanche
- Takes a streetcar named 'Desire' to Elysian Fields through cemeteries. The name 'Elysian Fields' foreshadows Blanche's mental descent throughout the play
- Her desires lead her down the paths of sexual promiscuity and alcoholism.
- Her desire to escape reality causes her to lose touch with the world and people around her.
- The real world shatters her dreams and fantasies.
- She only appears in semi-darkness and shadows - deliberately keeping herself out of the harsh glare of reality.
- Blanche's want for magic and not realism affects her relationship with both Stella and Stanley.
- By maintaining an illusory exterior, Blanche hopes to her troubled interior from both herself and others.
- She re-creates herself after losing Belle Reve.
- She is delusional - Makes up a story about Shep.
- p.104 - "The echo sounds in threatening whispers.
- p.104 - "The 'varsouviana' is filtered into weird distortion, accompanied by the cries and noises of the jungle."
- p. 96 - "The inhuman jungle voices rise up."
- p.104 - "The 'varsouviana' is filtered into weird distortion, accompanied by the cries and noises of the jungle."
- Stanley
- He tells Stella the details on Blanche's past whilst Blanche is bathing as she sings about make believe world.
- Blanche
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