Symbolic Collision in Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire
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The focus of my research is on the tacit dramatization of a symbolic collision
between idealism and realism, which is based on the employment of a variety of
private symbols in Tennessee Williams's one of the masterpiecesA Streetcar Named
Desire. This collision is not visible in the superficial ordinariness of the play as it is
completely covert. However, this research work makes an effort to do a thorough
excavation, interpretation and analysis of major private symbols exploited in the play
so as to aptly externalize the symbolic collision on the solid foundation of a sturdy
clash between Blanche DuBois and Stanley Kowalski, the representatives of idealism
and realism respectively, in the play.