A Review and Analysis of Tennessee Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire"

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Hello lovely people!
In this video, I will be giving my personal views on Williams' masterpiece "A Streetcar Named Desire". The play deals with some very saucy topics such as illusion, sex and desire. So stay tuned to and please let me know what you think of my video.
Thanks, Hannah 🙋🏻‍♀️
P.s pleaaaase excuse my rambling, I did have a script but I just get carried away with this sort of thing.

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@hanalayla7147 5 лет назад

Hi everyone! It's been almost a year since I posted this video for a module at university. Honestly, I posted it and completely forgot about it...until the views and comments rolled in!! A massive thank you to everyone that has supported this video - I really appreciate it! I'm coming to the end of my degree and will be graduating this year so life is BUSY! Maybe I'll post more videos in the near future. Lots of love, Hannah x

@Clash-ve4sh 5 лет назад

Hannah Mitchell Good Luck!! i’m still a junior in hs and i used this video as a summary cuz we were supposed to read this book but i never did 😬. helped out a lot though got a 90 even tho i never read the book hehe.

@shauncardin9293 5 лет назад

hey i was wondering what your intro song is. it sounds like alunageorge?

@hanalayla7147 5 лет назад

@@Clash-ve4sh Wow, check you out! Well done on your mark but promise me you'll read the book next time 😜 Glad the video helped you out though

@hanalayla7147 5 лет назад

@@shauncardin9293 Hi Shaun. The song is Walk with Me feat. Kučka by Cosmo's Midnight. Very similar to alunageorge.

@shauncardin9293 5 лет назад

@@hanalayla7147 thank you very much!

@elly1243 6 лет назад

Ive watched your video as part of revision for my english literature a level exam, this was really helpful and you made it interesting to watch, thank you !

@owadziatko 6 лет назад

The same :))

@hanalayla7147 5 лет назад

Thank you so much Eleanor! I hope your exam went well and thanks again for watching xx

@shachelifernando 3 года назад

me too

@bearfamous_ 5 лет назад

My AP Lit class just read this play and I read for Blanche. I got rather connected to the character and I hurt so much for her. She's done terrible things but she's so broken

@hanalayla7147 5 лет назад

Agreed. Blanche is a very complex character, but then aren't most people? The human condition is fascinating. Thanks for watching Rebekah! x

@matnwaimb1292 4 года назад

Also, Blanche’s flirting with young men is due to her despair over her husband’s suicide

@fae.eriiss 5 лет назад

this is great im studying this book for alevel and i find it nice to sit down an watch a video when im feeling more tired. bu this video wasnt boring and was more down to earth, felt like a conversation which engaged me and will help me remember it more. thankyou so much!

@hanalayla7147 5 лет назад

You're welcome, glad you enjoyed the video! Thank you for your kind words and good luck in your A Levels!

@mustachewalrus Год назад

This video really helped me out when I had an assignment on this play, thank you for making it

@sisterstressed6520 5 лет назад

you‘re so pretty omg, i love your hair so much!! also your analysis was fab and i agree, marlon brando makes it very hard to hate stanley lmao

@hanalayla7147 4 года назад

Thank you, your comment is very kind and made me blush haha!

@SexySkoChick Год назад

I HAVE to agree here too! 😳 as much as Stanley had a temper 😱 and can charm you to the moon and back 😏 I COULD not bring myself to hate Stan at ALL! 😌 Brando was just soo HAWT 😍🔥😱🥵 ALSO I do 💖 the tension with Blanche and Stanley as well 🤯

@timothydao2416 2 года назад

Stanley did his boy Mitch a solid for protecting him.

@buttercuppyow 5 лет назад

Thanks angel !! A Level Y13 exam tomorrow comparing this with A Handmaid’s Tale 😭😭😭 I hope it goes well

@HappySunshineDay 6 лет назад

Hi Hannah! Call me crazy, but I watch the 1951 film about every six months or so just because there is SO MUCH in this masterpiece of Williams'! When you add director Elia Kazan - and all of the wonderful actors - we then have a true Hollywood classic. One more example of the Williams-Kazan brilliance is in Baby Doll (1956) again with Karl Malden and a host of truly wondrous actors in a freak show. Enough on the films...I want to thank you for fleshing out the setting of Streetcar in America after the depression and WW2. You brought to my mind aspects of the society in Stanley's neighborhood that I never thought of before. If this is the New South, it is even more repulsive to Blanche than the metaphorical streetcar that brought her there through the squalor that reflects centuries of decay wrought by the sins of the fathers visited on these daughters. Thank you for "rambling," as it were. I could talk about lit all day, so it's nice to find others in the same mindset.

@hanalayla7147 5 лет назад

Hi, thanks for watching my video. Interesting insight you've brought to the table here. Thanks for responding and engaging with my video, it means a lot x

@emjayay 4 года назад

Too bad they cut the important gay angle from the film as they did with all Williams movie versions in the 1950's. Cat On a Hot Tin Roof is really well done except for not really making sense.

@MissEleanorRoseXO 5 лет назад

Thank you dear. I’m studying this at a level and this has really helped 💕 x

@hanalayla7147 5 лет назад

You're welcome Eleanor. Good luck with your A Levels xx

@MissEleanorRoseXO 5 лет назад

Hannah Mitchell thank you 💕xx

@victoriabridge01 5 лет назад

Just watching this to try and gain some what knowledge for my a level English tomorrow! 😂

@amank1250 5 лет назад

Honestly thank you so muchhhhh I gotta write an essay on this and you’ve helped soooo much 🤗🤗🤗.

@hanalayla7147 4 года назад

You are so welcome Aman!!

@arubabibi3496 2 года назад

Great video! I love watching these casual, discussion videos. Feels like a conversation but is extremely helpful and informative!!

@jurijsoklic5026 2 года назад

I wonder. What did Stanley say to Stella what happened with her sister Blanche after she returned from hospital with baby?

@jonnatonjapiassu9083 5 лет назад

I'm just here to say that you are very smart and gorgeous,bye!!!

@hanalayla7147 5 лет назад

Thank you very much, I'm flattered!

@ravenwyld 4 года назад

I was surprised there weren't more analysis of this tbh

@tark255 5 лет назад

Got my mock exam tomorrow on this deep ass book which I possibly was meant to have read but didn't … u have saved me life, thank you very much

@hanalayla7147 5 лет назад

You're welcome, glad I could help! Hope the exam went well x

@givemeyourarms 4 года назад

I am so bad at revising in general, but in depth videos like this give me focus for hours. Genuinely appreciate this, very good comments that allow me to build on what I've learnt already in class for my A levels

@owadziatko 6 лет назад

Hey Hannah, keep making videos :) You are good at it! Maybe something about your favs books?

@hanalayla7147 5 лет назад

Hi Marta, thank you! I've been very busy at university and haven't really considered it. Maybe once I graduate, I'll post more. Thanks for your response though, that's very kind. xx

@hughw2867 4 года назад

thank you hannah, very useful and insightful video, perhaps cover other books, or even zoom into a streetcar in more detail? nice work

@muhammedyasinkalender6576 5 лет назад

I got distracted so many times with the english accent and you playing with your hair :D but it was a great video after all. Great character analysis

@hanalayla7147 4 года назад

Thank you!

@edrysefolasade9729 4 года назад

Stanley is Mars in exaltation and Blanche is Venus in retrograde. He’s all too aware of his power and how to use it. Her powers are strong but inverted to the point of implosion.

@ryanboshell6124 5 лет назад

Hello! Which university did you do your module at? Excellent analysis, thank you.

@hanalayla7147 4 года назад

Hey Ryan! Thanks for your message and sorry about the late response. I was on my year abroad in Málaga when I made this video.

@ryanboshell6124 4 года назад

@@hanalayla7147 Ah lovely. Helped me no end with my Modern Drama Module. Thank you.

@issacsami7365 5 лет назад

Great video. Really grew my knowledge for my exams

@hanalayla7147 5 лет назад

Thank you, hope your exams went well.

@antsbruh 5 лет назад

Also a college student myself. My friend made me watch an experimental version of this play as part of an assignment for his theater class. I had a good understanding of the story but it felt like I was missing some key notions that would give this play more depth and this video helped me a lot. Thank you for your insight and analysis. By the way you have a very appealing voice and accent. It makes it way easier to stay focused on what you’re saying. May I ask where you’re from Hannah?

@hanalayla7147 5 лет назад

Thanks for your comment Anthony! I'm from the UK.

@cagladolek2291 5 лет назад

you are good at his job. this was very useful. ı wish everyone took videos like you. nowadays girls are just taking makeup tutorial videos... You are different and way more tallented than many of the youtubers.

@hanalayla7147 5 лет назад

Hi Chaylie, thanks for your comment. Glad you enjoyed the video!

@schannstewart9385 6 лет назад

Do you think Blanche was suffering from PTSD? She showed a lot of the signs. I believe she has been raped before.

@chenyanhao676 6 лет назад

Blanche's trauma can be traced to freudian philosophy, if u consider that freud philosophy of "pleasure" is slapped in your face. Case in point, a streetcar named "desire", cemetary fields. If u take his philosophy seriously, freud talks about how humans have a death drive, that constantly compels them towards self-annihilation. PTSD is a manifestation of such a phenomenon because as he puts it, it is the trauma revisited by the patient such that they cannot let go of their experience with self-annihilation, once the patient gets a taste of it anyway. Blanche's ptsd stems from her relationship with her gay ex-lover, whom she loved dearly but her own morals made him repulsive to her. Her experiences on the day are very similar to symptoms of being shell-shock, displacement of mind, recalling of sensory phenomenon about the event, anxiety etc. So in short, yes she suffered from ptsd, no, she wasnt raped b4. Her trauma stems from her instinctive disgust betraying her love, and this melding of the two leads her towards self-annihilation

@emjayay 4 года назад

@@chenyanhao676 She was earning her hotel bill by hooking, and when she was a high school teacher she was doing a 17 year old replacement for her husband. And when drunken sailors ended up on her front lawn she gave some kindness to the occasional stranger.

@emjayay 4 года назад

I think you are living in Blanch's old bedroom.

@rosatrujillo4649 4 года назад

Writing a critical opinion of the play. Your video helped a lot. Thank you. Hope you can still read this comment.

@kathya1956 4 года назад

Blanche could get the man but Stanley can’t take the woman who flirts with him?

@lazyworm9451 5 лет назад

Why no more uploads? You could do videos reviewing books or plays you've read i think you do such a good job at it!

@hanalayla7147 5 лет назад

Thank you, you're too kind! I can't make any promises, but I would love to make more videos in the future. But I do appreciate your comment and am glad you enjoyed the video.

@paolatorrentdiaz3390 3 года назад

reading the book what have you personally learned about literature, interpersonal communication, or representation of people?

@manythings3 6 лет назад

thank you.. that was really helpful

@hanalayla7147 5 лет назад

You're welcome!

@NM-bo5td 5 лет назад

Thank you for such a great analysis!

@paigecarey9546 5 лет назад

THANKYOU!!

@hanalayla7147 4 года назад

You're welcome!!

@ciaranshrrr563 5 лет назад

Love from China!❤ You saved me for my presentation tomorrow...

@ciaranshrrr563 5 лет назад

besides, uhh !your makeup . fabulous

@hanalayla7147 5 лет назад

Hi Ciaran, glad I could help you out! Hope the presentation went well x

@Ryuller 5 лет назад

Hi, i'm from Brazil! good video!

@hanalayla7147 5 лет назад

Thank you!

@raphscruz 4 года назад

thank you, very helpful

@markbrown7115 5 лет назад

this is a really good review amazing lovely for this book

@hanalayla7147 5 лет назад

Thank you!

@bellyQBE 6 лет назад

Stella's is definitely a boss.

@hanalayla7147 5 лет назад

Agreed!

@Crazycheerleader4eva 5 лет назад

they are SCENES not ACTS!!!! but thank you so much this helped a lot for my revision

@hanalayla7147 5 лет назад

Thank you for your feedback, and you're welcome x

@Crazycheerleader4eva 5 лет назад

@@hanalayla7147 literally rewatching this for my exam on monday! you're amazing

@ss9392 3 года назад

You know you can comeback and make videos whenever you want right? : ) First video being a hit is quite rare I think Love!

@markbrown7115 5 лет назад

helps my IB a lot thanks

@stephanew4809 4 года назад

Great analysis. Please do one onthings fall apart for my revisions

@janethurley3921 5 лет назад

Mitch says poker should not be played in a house with women after Stanley has a rage blackout and hits his pregnant wife. He is enraged by his wife's boldness after her sister Blanche has arrived.

@leonbrosowsky9523 6 лет назад

Thanks a Lot u saved my exam :D

@hanalayla7147 5 лет назад

You're welcome, hope the exam went well!

@matnwaimb1292 4 года назад

I realize the play is in the 50s’, but I think the reason why Stanley was threatened by Blanche wasn’t because of fixed gender roles, but rather her attitude and the way she tries to persuade Stella to leave him.

@kellyedey549 5 лет назад

No blanch is a classic borderline personality.

@ravenwyld 4 года назад

We had a dog called Tennessee Williams when I was a kid 😂

@soonsims 5 лет назад

Where do they say in the movie 1951 that her husband was cheating on her with men? I only understood that he killed himself probably because due to depression because Blanche said he was crying all the time.

@IlannaGane 5 лет назад

I’ve got this as my drama dialogue 😅😅

@hanalayla7147 5 лет назад

Good luck and what a corker of a dialogue to act!!

@IlannaGane 5 лет назад

Hannah Mitchell aha! I did it! It went really well! Thank you! x

@sergioescarfuller8941 3 года назад

i would watch your videos if you made new ones!

@nicole-vz7xx 4 года назад

okay just saying... I have the same birthday as Tennessee Williams. just sayinnn. okay now continue watching and stop ssscrolling.

@elverrrustemi7482 6 лет назад

You're beautiful and helped me ,marry me

@hanalayla7147 5 лет назад

Hahaha thank you, I'm flattered!!

@shabnamb9800 4 года назад

The decaying self!

@fionarussell7622 6 лет назад

The whole dynamic is distorted ...

@robertojosecorderopaiz3891 2 года назад

Que guapa

@ephascus8974 5 лет назад

your peng miss

@hanalayla7147 5 лет назад

Thank you, I'm flattered!!

@markbrown7115 5 лет назад

not a lie

@ryanboshell6124 5 лет назад

Dr. Smiley Face you’re**

@vitodantas 2 года назад

you are so beautiful

@francine8806 6 лет назад

A word of advice: try not to insert the work "like" after every other word when you're speaking. It's very annoying.

@jaijai91 3 года назад

A word of advice: if you do not like a video you have the option to find a different video instead, rather than being downright rude about the way somebody speaks :)

@francine8806 3 года назад

@@jaijai91 I'm giving her helpful advice. The "like, like, like" detracts from her flow and is a distraction. Any speech or diction coach would tell her the same.

@cameronjmorrissey374 5 лет назад

This has helped me so much, thank you.

@hanalayla7147 5 лет назад

I'm so pleased to hear this, thank you too!

@elly1243 6 лет назад

Ive watched your video as part of revision for my english literature a level exam, this was really helpful and you made it interesting to watch, thank you !