i'm writing my a level exam on this play in 3 weeks and this is immensly helpful! thank you so much, i'm a self-studying learner and finding resources like yours are the reason i have a chance to pass
This is a really really good overview of the play! I'm revising for my a level exams in the UK, and I'm grateful as this has really reinforced my knowledge!! Thank you!
This is the best script analysis video for A Streetcar Named Desire here in RUclips don’t look for another. That’s what Tennessee was trying tor portray in this play. The gist of the play is the obliteration of aristocracy, world war 2 aftermath and how it impacted the aristocracy, the lower class as the new social class taking over America, a class compounded by immigrants, hardworking people, uneducated people. We are living in that America nowadays. That’s what Tennessee Williams is depicting through Blanche and Stanley. Perhaps, yes, there are some aspects of Tennessee Williams and his family in the play but they’re just a few. However the essence of the play is the obliteration of aristocracy and the lower class becoming a powerful class in America.
I love Tennessee Williams, I’ve owned my copy of a Streetcar Named Desire since high school, and I just rewatched the movie on HBOMax. I truly miss this type of drama and acting in stage to screen films. I’m not in school but this is a wonderful refresher on the era and Williams’ ability to tackle issues in an resistant old south. Brando is dangerously charming as Stanley. I can only see Stanley and Blanche as opposite sides of the same oppressive coin, they were too much alike to exist long in the same space.
Blanche is Tennessee Williams writing about himself. He documents his own struggles with boarderline personally disorder. Because he was gay he made Blanche a female character.
It is too much of an assumption to assume the direct reasoning of bio-context can force a whole play's themes and characters. Yes, Williams' struggled upbringing surely influenced his depiction of Blanche; however there is a mass of difference between Williams and his characters. He once said in an interview that if he wanted to write a play about himself, then he would.
It has been debated whether Blanche is a depiction of Williams. In 1931, Williams had a nervous breakdown and, due to his depression, had issues with drugs and alcohol, just like Blanche. Arguably, this is a strong piece of evidence to corroborate the point of Blanche representing Williams. However, in 1937, his sister was sent to a mental institution, which therefore could be a significant influence into the construct of Blanche. It's tricky to conclude on whether Blanche is a representation of Williams. Personally, i think she may be.
I’m doing English lit for a levels. So I’ve come here to write some extra notes. I decided to read the comment and I came across yours. I just want to say thankyou so much for commenting! I shall be using this as contextual evidence later on😂xx
I'm studying this play in my Drama course and I've chosen one of Blanche's monologues for my practical component. Thank you, this helped a lot in my analysis of the play and its given circumstances
Thanks, Jehan. I'm glad it helped. If you check out my channel I have a bunch of 15-minute lectures over a lot of Modernists (especially poetry). Good luck with your exams.
Great analysis, thanks. I am watching the 1951 film again and you brought up many good points, makes it more enjoyable to really understand the characters better. I personally am disgusted by Stanley, to me he's a sadistic person who takes great pleasure in destroying Blanche. Blanche breaks my heart, I don't think she's a psychopath at all, just perhaps delusional and very fragile, sort of a lost soul. A bit similar in that respect to Laura in "The Glass Menagerie".
9:55 Don't forget that the last straw was that one of those partners was a minor and her student. That makes her, at least by today's laws, a statutory rapist.
Blanche probably could have managed the plantation as a farm but clearly she would have been inept if she tried, and maintaining the house would be too expensive anyway. So she sold off land to keep going until nothing was left. Today she could run the house as a B&B (well, not an airhead wacko like her) or the state could buy it as a historic site or something but at that point it was just a money pit.
Honestly, I liked Stanley too and Blanche dissing him to Stella in Scene 4, as well as trying her hardest to convince Stella to leave him, disgusted me
Well, he beated on Stella the night before and Blanche was scared for her sister. I think that's a normal reaction to want your sister to leave a violent man.
That was justified, maybe not her place to call him names but Blanche also wasn’t wrong in her assessment of Stanley. He‘s insecure, violent, and controlling. It’s equally strange to think it’s your place to literally *knock* your wife or anyone else down a few notches. But this comment seems in line with the straight-male biases Tennessee was playing on all those years ago.
I never noticed it the first time I saw the movie but now it really seemed obvious that Stella looked like a trans person without female shape and a boyish look to her face at times, especially in the infamous walk down the staircase scene. I expect that artistic addition was a deliberate attempt at adding a subtle styalistic influence directly related to the infamous LGBTQ quality of the author himself right into the character of Stanley's "little woman" but seeming transgender/LGBTQ to the "Hollywood insiders" during the time of the film.
Graphic Removed Uninteresting to you, granted. However, unless you‘re the official ambassador of Creative Ethics for planet Earth, you fortunately don’t speak for everyone 🧐
@@TonabillityDuly noted. Thank you for such insight and reasoning but I do one day hope that the existence of unpopular opinion isn't something that should be quashed but accepted in equal parts with the popular. I feel this is truly having a greater understanding of the work even if not appreciative.
Graphic Removed I stand for full self expression for all humanity. If someone has the opinion that “my” opinion should be squashed, they’re more than welcome to express that 🤨 But I hear you though. Keep hope alive!
i'm writing my a level exam on this play in 3 weeks and this is immensly helpful! thank you so much, i'm a self-studying learner and finding resources like yours are the reason i have a chance to pass
my favourite character is Allan the dead gay guy
Don't expect to hear much about him in the 1951 film.
Dude same
This is a really really good overview of the play! I'm revising for my a level exams in the UK, and I'm grateful as this has really reinforced my knowledge!! Thank you!
I'm happy you found it useful! Good luck with your exams.
thedgdaniel I'm doing the exact same 🤗
thedgdaniel I'm doing the exact same 🤗
This is the best script analysis video for A Streetcar Named Desire here in RUclips don’t look for another. That’s what Tennessee was trying tor portray in this play. The gist of the play is the obliteration of aristocracy, world war 2 aftermath and how it impacted the aristocracy, the lower class as the new social class taking over America, a class compounded by immigrants, hardworking people, uneducated people. We are living in that America nowadays. That’s what Tennessee Williams is depicting through Blanche and Stanley. Perhaps, yes, there are some aspects of Tennessee Williams and his family in the play but they’re just a few. However the essence of the play is the obliteration of aristocracy and the lower class becoming a powerful class in America.
Have my English literature A level paper 1 tomorrow, this video has been super helpful in my revision throughout the past year, thankyou so much!
howd it go
Thanks, Katie, this video was very helpful for my A-level revision!
I love Tennessee Williams, I’ve owned my copy of a Streetcar Named Desire since high school, and I just rewatched the movie on HBOMax. I truly miss this type of drama and acting in stage to screen films. I’m not in school but this is a wonderful refresher on the era and Williams’ ability to tackle issues in an resistant old south. Brando is dangerously charming as Stanley. I can only see Stanley and Blanche as opposite sides of the same oppressive coin, they were too much alike to exist long in the same space.
The guilt complex that is the catalyst to Blanche's behavior deserves mention.
You taught me what my teacher failed to teach in one month thanks
Blanche is Tennessee Williams writing about himself. He documents his own struggles with boarderline personally disorder. Because he was gay he made Blanche a female character.
Daniel Macculloch Wasn't it that Williams' sister was also sent to a mental institution?
It is too much of an assumption to assume the direct reasoning of bio-context can force a whole play's themes and characters. Yes, Williams' struggled upbringing surely influenced his depiction of Blanche; however there is a mass of difference between Williams and his characters. He once said in an interview that if he wanted to write a play about himself, then he would.
“i am blanche dubois” -williams
It has been debated whether Blanche is a depiction of Williams. In 1931, Williams had a nervous breakdown and, due to his depression, had issues with drugs and alcohol, just like Blanche. Arguably, this is a strong piece of evidence to corroborate the point of Blanche representing Williams. However, in 1937, his sister was sent to a mental institution, which therefore could be a significant influence into the construct of Blanche. It's tricky to conclude on whether Blanche is a representation of Williams. Personally, i think she may be.
I’m doing English lit for a levels. So I’ve come here to write some extra notes.
I decided to read the comment and I came across yours.
I just want to say thankyou so much for commenting! I shall be using this as contextual evidence later on😂xx
I'm studying this play in my Drama course and I've chosen one of Blanche's monologues for my practical component. Thank you, this helped a lot in my analysis of the play and its given circumstances
This is such a good analysis!! im doing my IB boards next month and this helped SO much
Thanks, Jehan. I'm glad it helped. If you check out my channel I have a bunch of 15-minute lectures over a lot of Modernists (especially poetry). Good luck with your exams.
I’ve got my a level exam today on this and othello and this has really helped! Thanks!
Great analysis, thanks.
I am watching the 1951 film again and you brought up many good points, makes it more enjoyable to really understand the characters better.
I personally am disgusted by Stanley, to me he's a sadistic person who takes great pleasure in destroying Blanche.
Blanche breaks my heart, I don't think she's a psychopath at all, just perhaps delusional and very fragile, sort of a lost soul. A bit similar in that respect to Laura in "The Glass Menagerie".
rokedetbamidbar8 Blanche gets a free ride for her bad behavior (lies, substance addiction, delusion)
@@kathya1956 Not necessarily, Williams really makes her suffer. I for one have a lot of sympathy for Blanche, she's been through a lot
@@kathya1956 I think Stanley is disgusting. Blanche suffers a lot
Thank you very much, igcse tomorrow and this just gave me so many themes that are applicable to so many different potential questions
I’m about to write a paper and this helped so much. Thanks!
This vid is more useful than my first year of a levels
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Thank you for such an insightful presentation. I really learned and enjoyed!
Have an A level mock exam tomorrow, thank you!
They called Marlon Brando the Greatest American Actor. I, toldly agree. He was one of a kind. Like he wasn't acting. Just wonderful!
Great review. Thank you so much.
thanks for this amazing analysis!
this was so damn helpful for my paper thank you so much!!!
Very informative, thank you.
This is so useful thank you so much!!!
So, little presumption :
Humans are complex, complicated and drama is the norm ? hmmmm
Time for some Voltaire
This was golden!
This was great thank you so much!!
9:55 Don't forget that the last straw was that one of those partners was a minor and her student. That makes her, at least by today's laws, a statutory rapist.
Thanks for the video. 😄
Thank you!
Thank you, this was really useful for my revision
So what's the theme for streetcar named desire again ??
Sorry I didn't understand properly
Blanche probably could have managed the plantation as a farm but clearly she would have been inept if she tried, and maintaining the house would be too expensive anyway. So she sold off land to keep going until nothing was left. Today she could run the house as a B&B (well, not an airhead wacko like her) or the state could buy it as a historic site or something but at that point it was just a money pit.
this is a fab video cheers!
Amazing
EXCELLENT!
This is too good
yo is that braithwaite manor?
is anyone here from CCS?
I have an exam tomorrow
Wish me good luck please
Honestly, I liked Stanley too and Blanche dissing him to Stella in Scene 4, as well as trying her hardest to convince Stella to leave him, disgusted me
Jonee Lillard you finished the play yet?
Well, he beated on Stella the night before and Blanche was scared for her sister. I think that's a normal reaction to want your sister to leave a violent man.
@@scarlett3633 yes.
@@johanapulido3206 She also repeatedly called him and his friends apes.
That was justified, maybe not her place to call him names but Blanche also wasn’t wrong in her assessment of Stanley. He‘s insecure, violent, and controlling. It’s equally strange to think it’s your place to literally *knock* your wife or anyone else down a few notches. But this comment seems in line with the straight-male biases Tennessee was playing on all those years ago.
IB exam tommorrow and I haven't read the book. Let's go
Mika Stupnik Howd it go?
I never noticed it the first time I saw the movie but now it really seemed obvious that Stella looked like a trans person without female shape and a boyish look to her face at times, especially in the infamous walk down the staircase scene. I expect that artistic addition was a deliberate attempt at adding a subtle styalistic influence directly related to the infamous LGBTQ quality of the author himself right into the character of Stanley's "little woman" but seeming transgender/LGBTQ to the "Hollywood insiders" during the time of the film.
Vivien's parents actually owned slaves. Ty.
honey hush so?
I’m sure this play has historical significance But frankly the characters were dysfunctional and I don’t know why America likes stories liek this?
Perhaps because it’s social realism paints an authentic portrait of Caucasian American Culture, warts and all.
@@Tonabillity watching a pack of dogs rip apart a rabbit is cruel, realistic, and socially acceptable but it still isn't interesting
Graphic Removed Uninteresting to you, granted. However, unless you‘re the official ambassador of Creative Ethics for planet Earth, you fortunately don’t speak for everyone 🧐
@@TonabillityDuly noted. Thank you for such insight and reasoning but I do one day hope that the existence of unpopular opinion isn't something that should be quashed but accepted in equal parts with the popular. I feel this is truly having a greater understanding of the work even if not appreciative.
Graphic Removed I stand for full self expression for all humanity. If someone has the opinion that “my” opinion should be squashed, they’re more than welcome to express that 🤨
But I hear you though.
Keep hope alive!
bro this presentation sucks
thank you!