History Defined The Themes of a Streetcar Named Desire

A Streetcar Named Desire is a play which reflects the cultural tension that pervades after World War II. It was happened when an idealistic and ambitious American nation attempted to prove it's superiority and it's power to global community by attempting to and succeeding in squashing the threat of Nazi Germany. Former soldier named Stanley Kowalski who joined the American Army as an engineer at this time, returned home. After many years of wars, he returned to his normal life. It was a great occasion for the hard working people, who were experienced in expanding their sale business in the new territories and it is also a better chance who had mastered in technician works like Mitch had, whose ambition and expectancy were liberal. America was said to be a "Melting Pot" for the blending of cultures and interchange of ethnicity and the play was set in New Orleans, Louisiana.

The violence of brutal wars threatened the lives of people making them tiresome, even the discordance was observed in commerce, domestic and sexual life that clouded the tranquility among people. America was metamorphosed significantly during this war than that of the change in World War I. Previously armies were drawn up with the time-aggrandized queue of milieu along with a denizen who commanded them. However, the situation was quite contradictory as the whole squad was meshed by mingling of regions, classes and ethnic groups. Assiduity had been so well inclined to the exertion of the war that the diligence had to be commenced again virtually from haphazard. It showed a great endeavor in order to absorb a huge workforce that poured out of martial services, and in order to discover the principles in purpose of conducting the business, by they are cliches now. The Naked and the Dead (1948) by Norman Mailer, was partly based on his experiences with the 112th Cavalry Regiment during the Philippines Campaign in the World War II. It told the story how men abandoned the chivalry of war and inclined to culture during the war. William's play had also contributed the same idea that was published a year before. It is a sort of ceaselessness of Mailer's unflinching story about a new emerging America, a country where atrocious force and street penetration were worn out by the ancient principles of culture.

Being overspread on the fragile pot-conflict, however William's new Orleans setting brought the attention of the general public about another contradiction. This was the skirmish between the outworn Southern upper crust the spade-workers, and the fountainhead of the latter extended back to the period of history well known as Reconstruction (1865-1877). After losing in the "Civil War" the period was the vicious acclimatization era for the South. A lot of members of the old Southern elite were compelled to auction their habitations to hold their exhibition of subtlety, they had no alternative to deal with the new economy unless they staved off their backs to their customs. Southern were profoundly stricken as the held a negligible place in the economy. And since the conventional way permitted a well bred Southern woman to marry a well-off landowner for the maintenance of the equilibrium of their position, was getting gradually backbreaking. One viewpoint of the setting of A Streetcar Named Desire is difficult to pinpoint in the 1980s,for it's social and ethical code concerning women. In spite of contributing their efforts in the war, the situation was considered ephemeral to all even to the women. Conforming to the code, the women were confined to home with her husbandmen and offspring. Though they had enough capacity to allure men, they had to be inclined with their family. Also, according to the code, she must be a maiden for marriage ,along with a letter-perfect reverence, and should be complaisant in marriage and had to tolerate whatever her bread-winner husband wished. As she was unable to break her society's established taboos (though there were isolated exceptions) and since she must face cruel rules of sexual discrimination, she was made paralyzed of employing themselves into any profession, and also she became a product of clemency of the overpowering male society.

Her position gave her the appanage of unavowed dreams and phantasm if she cohered to social norms in public. One must admit this nuncupatory code that is given in the play like Streetcar. The moral code was even more stringent for not only insanity but also for homosexuality. Blanche Dubois has an ill reputation from her time in Laurel, as she has a deplorable affinity to homosexuality and a marked tendency toward aberration. She is vitiated from the beginning for all of these reasons. When Streetcar was published, it was considered to be a audacious play that dealt honestly with major social taboos. Less piquing, but the play consisted of such things that have made it jaw-dropping masterpiece. It dealt with things like: the costume and etiquette of Stanley and Blanche; Stanley's oral and somatic force; the representation of social groups; the flustering and outstretched conceit of Blanche and the ultimate presence of the asylum. Though William was considered as debauchee and perverted play-wright by many critics, yet his plays have taken a considerable place even in today's stage.