<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > Blanche: a broken butterfly </h1>
Blanche, played by Vivien Leigh, left the place where he had lived for a long time for various reasons and broke into a place that did not belong to him alone.
She is a beautiful and dazzling butterfly, but she broke into the realist society and eventually broke down.
Blanche lives in an environment that reflects the American culture that is unique to the United States, the Southern plantation culture, and her tradition and stubbornness are the characteristics of this culture.
Blanche is beautiful, but this stubbornness makes her firmly believe that what she fantasizes about is real, and this timidity of not facing reality makes Blanche's beautiful wings wither again and again, unable to absorb the nutrients provided by reality, Blanche indulges his infinitely expanding desires in his own world, forcing himself to the brink of collapse again and again.
At this time, Blanche, a broken butterfly, wants to survive in a beautiful fantasy, but is pulled back to reality again and again by his brother-in-law Stanley. She strives to spread her wings and fly in her own world, but she is often hit by the narrow nothingness of the fantasy world.
People can't live in fantasy all the time, and the nihilism of idealism is doomed to fail to survive in society for a long time with this spirit.
Blanche is an elegant woman who has been pampered since childhood and has received an old-fashioned Southern education, she is not only herself, but also represents this kind of elegant and noble woman.
Blanche symbolizes the southern plantation economy, she is as beautiful and elegant as a butterfly, but she is also sensitive and conservative in her thinking, she stubbornly insists on her infinitely inflated desires, and constantly fantasizes about the world she thinks, which makes her close herself step by step, and makes her drift away from others, becoming a special body that the world and this society cannot understand and tolerate.
Blanche began to crumble in her own fantasies and desires, and the gradual spiritual nature of her thoughts made her more escapist.
Blanche has lost her estate, she wants to build her own world in the home of her sister Stella, and she wants to restart beautiful illusory dreams in her own thoughts and ways.
But the class imprint is incompatible with reality, dooming her to a devastating end.
Blanche's destruction also suggests that the plantation economic system was eventually rejected by history because of its own limitations.
Blanche's existence reflects the conflict and special balance of opposites when idealism and realism coexist.
Although reality triumphs over fantasy in Streetcar Desire, Williams suggests that fantasy and imagination are an important and beneficial tool.
At the end of the play, Blanche is completely immersed in her fantasy world, which allows her to protect herself from the harsh reality to some extent.
This is a special connotation of American culture, fantasy as the antithesis of reality, reality finally triumphed.
Fantasy should have been something that society could not tolerate and cruelly discard, but to some extent, fantasy is the armor of the vast number of people to protect themselves in reality, and it is a line of defense for the vast majority of people to survive in reality.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > Stanley: a realistic lion</h1>
Stanley is the typical representative image of realism, he represents the modern industry of the North, is barbaric, but also strong, is grumpy, but also tenacious.
If Blanche is a broken butterfly, Stanley is undoubtedly a realistic lion.
Stanley, played by Marlon Brando, holds leadership in his circle of life, life is carried out according to his preferences, even Stella is controlled by his sexual desires, he is a person who is dependent and dependent.
However, everything was shattered by the appearance of Blanche.
Blanche's appearance disrupts his rule and begins to influence his position, such as the beginning of the film "Desire StreetCar", Stanley blames Blanche for his independent handling of the land, and questions Blanche's box of Chinese jewelry, at this time, Stanley's pragmatic spirit has been initially revealed.
And Stella, under the influence of Blanche, for the first time expressed great dissatisfaction and resistance to Stanley's card game, Stanley immediately used the innate advantage of men - strength to fight back, Stanley's beating of Stella is his counterattack, is his brutal and strong embodiment, is his realist spirit and desire to dominate everything gradually showed, and laid the groundwork for his final confrontation with Blanche.
In the following narrative, Stanley's extremely irritable temperament makes him always take the initiative to attack the side, and even by the end of the film, Stanley's sharp words, and even the overthrow of Blanche, are Stanley's sharp weapons to force Blanche for his own desires.
As Blanche's opponent, Stanley stubbornly insisted on his strategy, and even when Blanche had found his own life-saving straw, Mickey, and was ready to start a new happy life with Mickey, he still did not give up the revelation of Blanche.
He believes that only an attack can lead to the ultimate victory.
The victory of Stanley is also heralding the rise of the northern industrial civilization, which symbolizes the northern industrial civilization compared with the traditional civilization in the south, the northern industrial civilization is more in line with the needs of American society, and it is more conducive to the development of the capitalist economy in the United States.
In the film, the realists led by Stanley often play a game - poker.
Men use their brain power to win money with each other, which is the embodiment of their desires.
The game of poker stacked up after game seems to be entertainment, but in fact it is secretly competing and fighting.
The poker game begins and ends in the film until Blanche is taken away by the doctor, and the men led by Stanley have been playing poker, which is the embodiment of their desire for money, from beginning to end, it has never changed.
Moreover, the game has always been played in Stanley's home, and Stanley has absolute dominance and dominance, and he constructs his territory like a leader, and chases his desires in this territory.
He focused on his desires, like the moment Blanche left the passing table, and said, "Please don't get up, I'm just passing by." "
Stanley was not involved in the poker game at this time, smoking a cigarette by the back cabinet, spitting out smoke, looking flirtatiously at Blanche's silhouette and watching her leave.
It was the victor's contempt for the loser, and it was Stanley's demonstration of winning sovereignty in the war, and he was a little arrogant, and he was proud to be in control of everything.
Stanley, is a realistic lion.
He was challenged in a realist society full of desire, but with his own initiative, he eventually won.
< h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > the metaphorical connotation of the name</h1>
The film begins with three names mentioned, namely Desire Streetcar, Cemetery Streetcar, and Paradise Bliss.
The names of the three places are simple and easy to understand, but also have profound connotations. These three nouns have their own meaning, but they also allude to what they mean.
As a practitioner of idealism, Blanche begins his journey in the street car of Desire at the very beginning, implying that the audience Blanche came with desire.
Blanche not only has his superficial desires, but also great ambitions.
For example, in the film, Blanche complains to her sister Stella about her brother-in-law Stanley's shortcomings more than once, so that her sister Stella will no longer be with the barbarian Stanley.
Blanche wants her sister Stella to be on the same side as herself and to start her fantasy of a happy life with her sister.
Blanche distinguished himself from Stanley, classified himself as a noble bloodline, rejected Stanley's various things, and built his own camp.
After the StreetCar of Desire arrives at the station, Blanche wants to change from the Streetcar of Desire to the Streetcar of Cemetery, which is a signal to people that Blanche will eventually be destroyed.
The end of Blanche's desire is the place of death. The cemetery not only hints at Blanche's destruction, but also heralds Stanley's eventual victory.
Blanche's destination is a place called Paradise, which is a great irony but also a clever metaphor.
Blanche came to the paradise of her fantasy with her costume jewelry, and she thought she would have a separate room, with beautiful music, dim lights, and all the beautiful things in her fantasies.
The real paradise is a gathering place for drunkards, crowded and cramped, dirty and messy, which is a great irony and ridicule for Blanche's fantasy.
But at the end of the film, Blanche quietly takes the doctor's arm and gets into the car with him, which is not the best ending for Blanche.
The paradise and blessing land she fantasized about was not found in reality, but in the reality of heaven and paradise, she lived in a trance in the world of her fantasy, and she had found her paradise blessed land.
Despite the harshness of reality, Blanche has his own happiness in the beauty of fantasy.
This metaphor is cleverly arranged, and everyone thinks differently.
The characters of the film and the elements in the film have their own metaphorical connotations.
The film reflects the struggle and confrontation between the two ideological and economic systems in the United States at that time, and the metaphorical connotation of street car names, street names, light and other elements also highlights the artistry, era and ideology of the work "Desire Street Car".
The film "Desire StreetCar" uses seemingly ordinary character relationships, seemingly ordinary contradictions and conflicts, and seemingly simple development processes to profoundly and introvertedly reproduce the social situation and cultural background of the United States at that time.