Tennessee Williams As An American Dramatists

often based around the outside events taking place in society. In these dramas, the protagonists are no longer idealistic characters. They are alienated, seeking belong in a controlled society, or be the victims of a societal pressure, desires, and loss of integrity. There were prominent writers, such as Arthur Miller, who showed social flaws (The Crucible), or Eugene O’Neill, who mirrored some of his childhood memories (The Long Day’s Journey into Night). Nevertheless, the playwright who focused on the dark side of human beings was Tennessee Williams. He is one of the greatest twentieth – century dramatists of America. He was born in the eastern town, Columbus, on March 26, 1911. His father was an intimidating, impulsive, alcoholic, traveling

These characters can cope with the failure in their past, their futureless present, and their broken personalities. For these reasons these plays could also have some important meanings about society within the story. However, most importantly his demand was for the individual characters to be separated from the tension of public, “but there were cruelties which left the individual a victim of a system resistant to human needs. “(Bigsby, 36) Throughout his career, there was an ambivalent relationship between male and female characters which was based on brutality and a fragmented responsiveness in which every men and women played a part. The duality appears in another way in his dramas. Because he was always surrounded by women and his father was not present, the main characters of his works are women. Williams himself remarks: "Women have always been my deepest emotional root. Anyone who reads my writing knows that.” He understands and relates to women more easily than to men. His male characters are usually brutal, drunken, and undeveloped. His own experiences and circumstances determined every piece of his literary works. Williams produced individualities of women in a number of the characters that he created. Bernadette Clemens writes in her article, “Desire and Decay: Female

The history and culture of the setting express the fundamental concerns of the text therefore the scene indicates the reversals that were happening during the World War II. Moreover, the French Quarter of New Orleans was responsible for the abundant background and for the sensitive events of the play (streetcars, bars, entertainment, jazz and blues music.) The play clearly symbolizes the fail of the aristocratic families traditionally associated with the South. Unfortunately, at that time the South’s agricultural ground was no longer able to compete with industrialization therefore a huge number of the once powerful families lost their position. After the World War I and women gaining the right to vote in 1920 the male dominated Southern aristocracy came to an end. The structure of the workforce had reformed radically to contain women, immigrants, and blacks. In the drama there is a fight between two completely different lifestyles; one is presented by Blanche Du Bois, the other by her brother-in-law Stanley Kowalski. Nor Blanche and neither Stanley are capable to describe their way of life by a perfect mode. However, the writer can show both side but he directs the events for that when one will be destroying the other in modern society. At the same time Blanche comes into a prominence as an archetypal of the remarkable, cultured, and intelligent world against