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" Desire, unreined, leads to death"
To took what extent to Tennessee Williams's plays lend support to such a proposition?
Speaking to a reporter in 1963 Tennessee Williams said,
" Death is my best theme, don't you think? The pain of dying is what worries me, not the act. After all, ....
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.... intricately analyse the many ways Williams uses ideas and themes of desire to bring about "death" in A Streetcar Named Desire, in particular focusing on the central issue of the play, the demise of Blanche.
The first line that Blanche speaks is,
"They told me to take a streetcar named Desire, and then up transferor to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at- Elysian Feilds!3
The theme that dominates the play is here to be found in its title. At the time when Tennessee Williams was working on A Streetcar Named Desire in New Orleans in ....
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