On the Psychological Realism of A Streetcar Named Desire

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10.2991/emcs-17.2017.90How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Tennessee williams; A streetcar named desire; Psychological realism

Abstract

As a famous novel of the American literature, A Streetcar Named Desire represents Tennessee Williams' utmost achievement in fiction. Researchers are familiar with his undisguised description about symbolism in the novel, but less attention to the psychological realism in the novel. Psychological realism is the realistic writing that probes deeply into the complexities of characters' thoughts and motivations. Henry James is considered the founder of psychological realism. His novel The Ambassadors is considered to be a masterpiece of psychological realism. Tennessee Williams uses the psychological realism successfully in his play A Streetcar Named Desire. The thesis introduces the author of A Streetcar Named Desire, makes a research of his writing style by collecting and analyzing some of his works and expounds the background of this novel. The thesis used qualitative research techniques. The main purpose of this thesis is through the analysis of setting, characters, dialogue of work to show the psychological realism in A Streetcar Named Desire.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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