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A 4 page paper which examines the thematic role of love in this twentieth-century play and nineteenth-century short novel. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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exists at the most primeval level of existence, and no matter how civilized and sophisticated men and women have become through the centuries, that fundamental need for love remains as
essential to the human condition as breathing or a beating heart. In Tennessee Williamss 1947 play, A Streetcar Named Desire, and in Kate Chopins turn-of-the-century short novel, The Awakening,
the authors thematically portray love as a source of internal and external conflict. It is the expression or need for love that propels the plot and provides character dimension.
Also, both works are set in the balmy climate of Louisiana, a place where temperatures and passions tend to run high. Stanley and Stella Kowalski communicate love only through
sex and violence. Every aspect of their lives together is shaped by "animal sensuality" that reaches a fever pitch when Stanley beats his wife to prove his masculine superiority
to her (Riddel 27). Stella has come to equate their steamy encounters between the sheets with love, and so she always goes back to him in order partake in
the ardent reconciliations that inevitably follows (Riddel 27). The Kowalskis sadomasochistic relationship is the antithesis of love, which becomes more destructive with the arrival of Stellas sister, Blanche, a
delusional middle-aged woman that despite pious airs is the female equivalent of Stanley. She delights in furthering the public perception she is a prim-and-proper schoolmarm, but is also a
sexual predator who enjoys nothing more than preying upon young boys in private. When Stella and Blanche discuss love, their misconception becomes readily apparent: Stella: There are things that
happen between a man and a woman in the dark-that sort of make everything else seem-unimportant. (Pause) Blanche: What you are talking about is brutal desire-just Desire! (Williams 1824)
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