Blanche’s Destruction

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Blanche’s Destruction
This article will provide a literature review of A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams. The book centers on character analysis of feminist played by a fictional character Blanche Dubois. Allen, Blanche’s husband, die after stigmatization because he was homosexual. The death of Allen significantly affects Blanche, thus leaving her in a complete state of desolation. Blanches opts from one man in search of a better and safe future shaping her desire for happier life. Furthermore, Blanche character displays women who wish to be economically dependent on their husbands. These are the factors that ultimately leads to the failure of Blanche. In this article, I will discuss the brief synopsis as expressed by the author, provide themes that Blanche portrays in the book and perspectives that led to Blanche destruction.
The book describes Blanche desire for a better life despite misfortunes in her life. The author tries to portray that despite someone past, it doesn’t affect future life. After the death of her husband Allen, Blanche hopes for a better tomorrow. Deep within her heart, Blanche pursues the desire for a better life. Blanche wishes to be independent in patriarchal society, where women are ought to be subordinate to men. Blanche is brave to challenge male authority to live a happier life. Blanche is born in the Old South, and her destiny isn’t purely defined (Fang 102). She faces oppression and lives under restriction within the patriarchal society.

Blanche seeks solace using the imaginary world to get comfort. More so, Blanche displays women who despite their past failure and misfortunes in life, they live their life uncomfortable with sadness.
The book provides a basis for explaining economic factors during the Ancient Greek Era. According to the book, it is evident that each person’s fame can be attributed to the location that they come from (Fang 103). The surrounding that one is born and grow up determine ones upward growth in your entire life as well as shaping his character. The book briefly provides a critical description about the Old South. The background provided is necessary for understanding the theme of heroine’s destruction. The Old South was much controversial thus the main reason why there existed a rift between the planters and the slaves. Ironically, the slaves worked all day long accompanied by torture whenever they objected their masters would. They would be assigned a lot of strenuous duties which they much compelled to work on. Their masters, on the other hand, were wealthy planters who never worked but enjoyed their luxurious life like Lords. Furthermore, Blanche upbringing was dominated by the wealthy plantation estate owner who established aristocracy leadership due to their immense influence within the Ancient Greek society. They rich owned numerous tracks of lands and lived enjoyable life.
The book can be used to depict feminism. According to the book, the Marxist theory that economic dependence of male is the key factor that contributes to feminism. Economic dependence on male dominated society deprives the females of being complete on their stature. Financial self-dependence reduces their ability to stand on their own and reduce their capacity to struggle competitively on the male dominated society.
The greatest remedy of combating feminism is to ensure that women make their decision and reduce their dependency on men to increase their personal freedom. Dependence of a female on males reduces their equal access to their human rights (Fang 104-105). In the book, the plantation in the Old South restricts women within the plantation to enable them to gain financial muscle. This reiterates the urge of empowering women in the society by providing equal access to decent jobs. Nevertheless, Blanches complains how she earns a meager salary and can’t make any savings to facilitate her lavish lifestyle. This situation makes Blanche turn to other women so as to promote her living due to the death of her husband. Furthermore, life hasn’t been on the riding lane for Blanche since she lost relatives and a manor.
Depicting a sense of dissolution, Blanches keeps rotating within a relationship until she vanishes completely out of the society. Blanche next move is to seek refuge in her sister house in New Orleans. While seeking shelter in New Orleans, she seduces Stella’s husband due to his financial might. This doesn’t work out well, so she plans to propose to Mitch, Stanley’s co-worker. She feels that Mitch can be her solution from destitution and dependence on Stanley. Blanche thinks that if the marriage to Stanley occurs, her life will be happier and she will get out of Stella’s house, and life will be comfortable and financially stable. The relationship doesn’t materialize because Mitch judges Blanche based on her past life. After Blanche leaves Mitch, Blanche creates an illusion of an expensive cruise due to his increased level of depression.
Women economic dependence on male within the society played a greater role in Blanche’s destruction. Blanches, through illusion, creates a picture of a precious life with an incredibly rich man that never came through. According to Blanche, the fantasy depicts a male species that serves as hope for her to achieve a strength of women. The book also depicts women psychology. Apart from male dominated the fields of politics, economics, and culture. The man believes that females are irrational and can’t make a better decision on their own. Using this argument, male easily harasses and extort female privileges. Blanche’s desires lead to her destruction.
According to the book, despite Blanche’s good empowerment having studied in the vibrant neighborhood of Old South, obtained a quality education, she lets her inwards feelings have a control over her life. Despite his education, Blanche decision ultimately leads to the death of her husband, Allen. Allen is homosexual, in Old South homosexuality is deemed unacceptable. On realizing that Allen, her lover, is homosexual Blanches remains silent in shock and dismay. The effect results to Allen committing suicide, a decision that later creates a wound and negatively shapes her future (Fang 107-108). Blanche engages in relationships with other men until she dates seventeen years in high school, resulting in her expulsion from school institution.
Another factor that leads to Blanche’s destruction is hypocrisy. Blanche engages indecisive mechanism so as to initiate a relationship with many men. Blanche is good at pretending. After realizing Allen condition, she keeps quiet instead of helping him out. Blanche later becomes depressed leading to Allen committing suicide. Blanche hypocrisy is also shown when she claims she loved her husband Allen endurably yet she never helped him endure the condition. In the above article, I discussed the depiction of Blanche DuBois destruction in Tennessee William book A Streetcar Named Desire. This article provides a brief synopsis of the book, author’s evidence of Blanche’s destruction, and factors that led to the destruction of Blanche’s.
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Work Cited
Fang, Wei. “Blanche’s Destruction: Feminist Analysis on a Streetcar Named Desire”. Canadian Social Science 4.3 (2008): 102-108. Print.