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Considering the themes in the two texts were they written for prosperity or as a cry for help?
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Considering the themes in the two texts were they written for prosperity or as a cry for help? In "A Streetcar named Desire" and "The comfort of Strangers" women are portrayed in similar ways in order to show how they were treated throughout history. Both these texts also display different ways in which the women reacted to their treatment. However there are also women who choose to behave inn a way that the men in the text are unaccustomed to. In this way it seems fitting that both texts have at least one of the female protagonists being abused by a dominant male figure. Considering that the texts were written at very different times it is intriguing to note that they still deal with similar if slightly warped topics. Due to the changes in social and political views of women from 1947 to 1981, at first...
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