The Dark side of Humanity(A Streetcar Named Desire Final Essay)

A Streetcar Named Desire, by Tennessee Williams is a play about the primitive man, reality, fantasy, and lost treasures of the past. This play involves Blanche DuBois, Stanley Kowalski, Stella DuBois Kowalski, and Harold “Mitch” Mitchell. Stanley and Stella are a married couple, content with their lives, living on what they need and no more. Blanche is sister to Stella, a relic of Southern aristocracy, coming to visit Elysian Fields by a streetcar named Desire. Mitch is best friend to Stanley and close acquaintance to Blanche. Blanche is an English schoolteacher, fired because of her infatuation with young teenage boys. So, left with nothing but a dead husband, dead family members, and the loss of the country estate, Belle Reve, she has nothing left except her desires. With no other alternatives, Blanche decides to stay with her brother-in-law for a while, but it turns out to be the biggest mistake of her life. A pathological liar, tramp, and mentally debilitated by the surrounding...