When I was in Form 6, i had been constantly surrounded with boys that I could not help from falling in love with their innocent faces adorned with mischievous grins, the reason that led me to choose TESL. Little did I know that in my years of learning, i would be asked to read a certain plays which i may never lay my hand on had Dr Edwin didn't point it out to me. I did not really enjoy King Lear as much as I enjoy reading Streetcar Named Desire. The character that I really like, much to my friends' surprises is Blanche DuBois. The way her name is smoothly articulated signs an elegance which few people could possess. she is the symbol of oppressed woman in her time. but still it can be related even until now. the oppression of women had been occured ever since the very existence of man kind til now. i just could not grasp the idea of men treated womean as if we were pieces of meat to satisfy their primal needs. women entail more than being men' slave which even now, few men would realize the fact. reading Blanche's character being develop throughout the play, i was saddened with the fact that such a fine woman come from an oppulent family, still fail to get away from men's grasp but to succumb under their authority. I hate Stanley for using his manhood in order to steal Blanche away from her long-lived fantasy. Or was that just a way of William used in order that signify that men's brains are no bigger than their members? I bet it is!
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