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Williams employs the symbol of light in order to emphasize Blanche’s fear-raddled inner conflict against reality, Blanche’s repeated avoidance of the light producing a powerful symbolic representation of her inability to face the truth
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Williams employs the symbol of light in order to emphasize Blanche's fear-raddled inner conflict against reality, Blanche's repeated avoidance of the light producing a powerful symbolic representation of her inability to face the truth. The playwright utilizes the light bulb as the chief symbol of light; its physical state runs parallel to Blanche's conflict through the entirety of the play. The tearing of the light bulb serves as the climax, for it displays the transformation of Blanche's internal conflict into an external one, triggering the obliteration of Blanche's guise of illusion, and marking the beginning of her total degeneration. With the tearing of the light bulb, Williams also marks the end of light's role as a symbol of truth and/or reality, for Blanche's conflict against reality no longer exists; reality has conquered it, and what follows is the wrenching downfall of "Streetcar..."s tragic heroine. Up until the play's shocking climax, Blanche's...
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