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How does Death contribute to Blanche's impending madness throughout the play?
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How does Death contribute to Blanche's impending madness throughout the play? Death is a recurring theme throughout 'A Streetcar Named Desire' and is established as part of Blanche's neurosis from the first scene. It also provides Blanche a link to Mitch as he also has been affected by death. However the death of their romance signifies the beginning of the end for Blanche's descent into madness. We get our first hint that death will be prominent in this play from the first few lines of script where Blanche says: "They told me to take a streetcar named Desire, and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at - Elysian Fields." This line is Blanche's first and allegorically represents the journey through her life. It symbolizes that desire will lead to her death (the reference to cemeteries) and she will then go to Elysian Fields, which in Greek Myth...
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