A Streetcar Named Desire. Walls.
A Streetcar Named Desire.
Walls.
Blanche Dubois is a trapped woman; she is trapped by society and his past. She dwells in a harsh reality, fighting with the only mean that society has leave him, imagination; she builds walls to protect his fragile mind and soul, but his past haunt him, crushing his hopes and using the walls to trap her.
Blanche´s world is falling, his home it’s lost forever, the small society of his home town has rejected her, his beauty is in decline and she is stuck in a place that she doesn’t accept; society has betray her, she’s is dependant on men for happiness, acceptance and sustenance, but the male society doesn’t accept or understand his weakness, sexuality and fragility; Blanche fight building walls of lies and dreams, but his own self works against her, and the time ruthlessly remind her, that death is near.
His sexuality it’s also tainted by society, Blanche is haunted by his past, a past that would make her unacceptable on the eyes of the ones that could love her, that need her, but are incapable to accept.
The walls that Blanche create, as lies falls and reality destroy dreams, only works to keep her restrained, trapped in his own hopes and dreams. And the walls falls as one supreme act of cruelty and hate is committed, the rape, leaving Blanche unprotected, forcing him to go deeper in a downward spiral to madness, were no harsh reality could touch her again.
This travel to madness end when all walls are finally down, as Blanche founds himself trapped on his own mind, and behind the real walls from a mental institution. For one last time, society cast her out, denying her the recognition of his condition as a victim, of
"Whoever you are - I have always depended on the kindness of strangers." The last line of Blanche in the play, it´s a last critic, a final blow to the anonymous monster that destroys Blanche´s life, that leaves her without options and forces her to madness.
http://www.bookrags.com/notes/snd/ (Consultada el 3 de octubre
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/streetcar/ (Consultada el 3 de octubre
