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Alive With 'Desire'-biography

Date Submitted: 09/13/2004 00:41:45
Category: / Literature / English
Length: 3 pages (706 words)
"They told me to take a streetcar named Desire". Ambiguous for half a dozen reasons, Tennessee Williams' famous line from his third play 'A Streetcar Named Desire' (1947) brings testimony to the contemporary style that he has been loudly acclaimed for. Hopeful dramatists have often imitated this mysterious, unique style, which ultimately reflected the turbulent life he followed. He had a great passion for drama, creating many plays in his lifetime. Williams was championed as one …
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…him and that is why he will indefinitely retain the pedestal he has earned. For how can we turn away from the unique and original characters that we have come to appreciate as alive? When we wish we could shoulder 'Streetcar's' Blanche DuBois' problems rather than watch her struggle with holding her family together witha a quiet dignity and strength, all the while straining to maintain her delicate Southern Belle appearance? Or are appearances deceiving?
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