A street car named desire - It has been said that Williams deliberately sets up a pattern of tensions and conflicts in the play, which culminate in the ending. Do you agree?

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A street car named desire

It has been said that Williams deliberately sets up a pattern of tensions and conflicts in the play, which culminate in the ending.

Do you agree? In your answer you should include a detailed examination of scene eleven.

I think that there is a pattern of conflict and tension within the story because there seems to be a lot or argument distributed fairly evenly throughout the story. It starts of fairly mellow, with two sisters re-uniting after such a long parting. This so far makes the story look very tame and there is not a lot of fighting or violence involved, which is when the story takes a completely different turn and there are sparks of conflict. This is all very well, until Stella tries to talk about Blanche and he love life, or lack of it. This, as far as Blanche is concerned, hits a soft spot and the first conflict of the story begins. This is very quickly corrected, and they get back to normal swiftly as if nothing had ever happened.

This is one of the main patterns that I see. A fight takes place due to wrong doings, or disagreements, or suspicions and then after a short, abrupt, violent argument, everything is made better bye discussing it, and apologise made. Unfortunately most of these apologise, although legitimate, don’t seem to mean an awful lot, because they are forever being made, and still conflicts involving violence and offensive actions are still happening so often. If the apology was meant, and was from the heart, there wouldn’t be as many conflicts because they would have learnt a lesson. This is another pattern in the conflicts, the after apology.

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Another pattern I noticed, was that within the conflicts, one half of the fight, one person, is very much more stubborn and sticks by their guns, as the other one, gives in and does exactly what the strong person says. This happens either voluntarily or by force, within the fights. In the fight about ‘the papers’ Stanley is the much more stubborn, stronger person (in fighting personality and sheer strength), who demands the papers. He uses the ‘Napoleonic code’ to display his argument but also to show he wont back down. Blanche gives in immediately and shows him the ...

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