How effective a title do you think "A Streetcar Named Desire" is for this play?

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How effective a title do you think "A Streetcar Named Desire" is for this play?

The following will be examining how effectual I believe the title "A Streetcar Named Desire" is for this play. "A Streetcar Named Desire" is written by Tennessee Williams. The play portrays different characters' desires of diverse aspects of life.

I think the title is very effective because it attracts various readers. This is due to the use of the word "desire". The use of this word demonstrates many different characters' desires that they have in their life. The characters who this includes are: Blanche who wants to fulfil her desires of love, sex and end loneliness. Blanche depends on male sexual admiration for her sense of self-esteem, which means that she has often yielded to passion. She also has a bad drinking problem, which she covers up poorly.

Blanche is an insecure, dislocated individual. This can be seen by her drinking problem;

Mitch who hopes to marry so that he will have a woman to bring home to his dying mother. In addition end his loneliness and isolation that he has suffered. He appears to be a kind and decent human being. He is also very sensitive than Stanley's other poker friends; Stanley has sexual desires and the use of his power and dominance towards his friends and family. His main amusements are gambling, bowling, sex, and drinking, and he lacks morals and imagination. His disturbing, degenerate nature, first hinted at when he beats his wife, is fully clear after he rapes his sister-in-law. Stanley demonstrates no repentance for his fierce actions; Stella has desires of having a complete family with the love she deserves from Stanley. She is seen as a fragile character who gets abuse from her husband.
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Now I have just analysed how "desire" is present amongst the characters in this play, next I shall discuss the "desires" that one of the main characters has.

The word "desire" is also very effective because Blanche is in search of new beginning therefore she comes to stay with her sister, Stella in Elysian Fields. This is a mythological reference to paradise which also refers to death. This is the place where dead people go. This is a contradiction in it self. In addition the quotation which further expresses this is "They told me to take ...

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