欲望号街车中布兰奇的悲剧命运分析---毕业论文.docVIP

【标题】欲望号街车中布兰奇的悲剧命运分析 【作者】余琴华 【关键词】欲望;?布兰奇;?悲剧;?文明;?野蛮 【指导老师】张 亚军 谭 佳 【专业】英语 【正文】I IntroductionTennessee Williams?(March 26, 1911?– February 25, 1983) born in Thomas Lanier Williams, was an American playwright who received many of the top theatrical awards for his works of drama. He moved to New Orleans in 1939 and changed his name to?Tennessee, the state of his fathers birth. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for A Streetcar Named Desire in 1948 and for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof in 1955. 1 In addition, The Glass Menagerie?(1945) and The Night of the Iguana?(1961) received New York Drama Critics Circle Awards. His play The Rose Tattoo received the Tony Award for best play. In 1980 he was presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Jimmy Carter.After a severe mental and physical breakdown in the 1960s, William’s plays were more or less unsuccessful. Williams examined in his controversial and poetic plays turbulent emotional and sexual forces, physical and spiritual needs, and created such unforgettable characters as Maggie in Cat on A Hot Tin Roof?(1945) and Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire?(1947).The story in A Streetcar Named Desire takes place right after World War II, in New Orleans, Louisiana. Williams takes the audience to New Orleans where the relationship of Blanche Dubois, her sister Stella and brother-in-law Stanley is being illuminated. Blanche Dubois, who was a aristocratic woman before, now come here to find her sister called Stella Kowalski. Stella has left home many years ago. That time, the south is the representative of the decadent aristocratic civilization; the north is rough and full of vitality. In the house of Stella, Blanche met her antagonist, Stella’s husband named Stanley Kowalski. He is a descendant of Polish immigrants, a salesman, brutish and pragmatic. He suspected that Blanche embezzled his wife’s property. Although the facts are clarified later, Stanley was always unfriendly with Blanche. Blanc