Saturday, December 21, 2013

Discuss the destructive type of love present in Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire.

I think that the love presented in Williams' work is
destructive.  Yet, I also think that the love that is presented is demonstrated as one
that yearns for what cannot be.  In a sense that love becomes so very destructive for
those who possess it.  For example, Blanche demonstrates a love for a time and condition
that have passed.  Blanche yearns for the stately manors and regal tradition of the
South, embodied in Belle Reve.  This has passed with a more modernized and industrial
visage in its place.  Blanche's love of the past proves to be destructive because it
makes her incapable of being able to adapt to the moder modernized reality that
surrounds her.  Stanley's desire to appropriate the world in accordance to his own
subjectivity is also destructive, but this destruction is wrought on others.  His love
of this appropriation causes him to violate Blanche, demonstrating carnal destruction. 
In the end, the yearning for the subjective to be mirrored in reality is a form of love
that destroys bonds and cannot foster connection or solidarity between
people.

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