Blog post #3 topic 3

According to the dictionary, insanity means “the condition of being insane; a derangement of the mind.” In a psychological way, insanity defined as “mental illness of such a severe nature that a person cannot distinguish fantasy from reality, cannot conduct her/his affairs due to psychosis, or is subject to uncontrollable impulsive behavior.” People having a positive attitude regularly prompts to positivism. Similarly, having a negative attitude quite often prompts to negativity. However, negativity has a tendency to burden an individual significantly more, with more prominent negative. Negativity prompts to stress, despondency, and at times mental issues. The character, Blanche Dubois in Tennessee Williams’s, “A Streetcar Named Desire” supports this theory tremendously.

As the play progresses, we gradually get to know more about Blanche and the kind of individual she truly is as opposed to the sort of person that she might want every other person to think she is. Blanche at first appeared to be a weak and self-assimilated southern lady, which nearly perfect model of a classy woman whose social interaction, life and behavior are based upon her sophistication, But what truly began originating from her character was a imperfect identity. She suffered from her haunting past; her inability to overcome; her desire to be someone else; and from the cruel, animalistic treatment she received from Stanley. Everything all coming toward her and it leads to downfall, even mental breakdown.

Blanche lost her husband because he killed himself after she discovered his homosexuality, and she was suffered from shameful and guilt ever since; she also witnessed family members and relatives died; she got kick out from her hometown and forced to go and seek refuge with her sister, Stellar; she lives in her imagination that she lied about her past and trying to build a better future with lies; She desires someone to be in love with her that she lied about her real age in order to maintain a romantic relationship with Mitch; she believes that she had a seventeenth years old boyfriend which it never exist; She is insecure about her appearance  and has an unstable state of mind that she looks forward to be praise. She puts on the pretense of a woman who has never known indignity, however Stanley sees through her. Her past catches up with her and devastates her relationship with Mitch. Stanley, as she fears he may, annihilates what's left of her. Blanche says, “Yes. There’s so much – so much confusion in the world…” This demonstrates that Blanche begins withdrawing into her anecdotal universe of imagination – at the main show of genuine savagery from Stanley. This nearly anticipates her breakdown toward the end of the play as the aftereffect of Stanley's sexual violence against her.  Additionally, Williams employs symbolism to shows Blanche’s madness. A recurring image in the play is the utilization of shadows and how Blanch continually is by all accounts maintaining a strategic distance from light. She says, “And turn that over-light off! Turn that off!” This image the light speaks to reality and the shadows/obscurity speak to the dream which Blanche cheats herself into accepting. Overall, Blanche is “insane” due to her pathetic experiences and her retreating reality.