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A 6 page paper which examines the relationship between sex and death in Tennessee Williams’ play “A Streetcar Named Desire.” Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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death often go hand in hand. In many ways sex is a reaffirmation of life, and death is obviously just the opposite. With that perspective in mind the following paper
examines the relationship between sex and death as seen in Tennessee Williams play "A Streetcar Named Desire." Sex and Death in "A Streetcar Named Desire" First and foremost
one sees the element of sex in the title of the play itself. Wikipedia notes, "The reference to the streetcar (tram) called Desire is symbolic, as well as an accurate
piece of New Orleans geography." The name of the place wherein Blanches sister and brother-in-law live is called Elysian Fields. This is the name of an ancient mythical place wherein
the dead go to live peacefully and in bliss in some legends. In light of these facts the play offers "an abiding theme in the play that desire and death
are mutual aspects of the same pathos" (Wikipedia). In relationship to the physical conditions in the play one sees that Blanche must
take the streetcar named Desire to Elysian Fields. She must take desire, her sexuality which is apparently quite promiscuous, to a place of death. Symbolically this is exactly what Blanche
does in the story. She arrives in the place filled with life and energy in relationship to her outward personality, yet she is also fearful and in great need. By
the end of the play she has been reduced to facing reality, something she cannot adequately do and so she goes mad, thus finding her own death. And, perhaps in
that death she has arrived at her own blissful Elysian Fields where she can live in fantasy forever. In more solid examples,
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