Critical Evaluation of William Tenessee plays "A street car named Desire and Glassmenagerie"

Tennessee William is the most exceptional American playwright. The purpose of this research paper is to critically evaluate the two plays of Tennessee William: "Glass Menagerie" and "A Streetcar named Desire". Mostly his plays revolve around female characters. Despite this, there are also other important elements in his plays such as symbolism, reality, expressionism, abjection, identity, victimization of women, rape, conflict between society and individual, love and death, madness, sexuality, political dissent, Homosexuality, Homophobia and tragic tradition. We have selected only above two plays for our critical analysis. The core characters in these two plays are women. Our analysis includes themes like inter- relationship of past and present, the conflict between illusion and reality and the last one is gender and the issue of sexuality. The problem of protagonists to face the reality and to accept the sexuality all are inter-linked and initiated from the Past. The women in the plays of Tennessee William are seen in the perspective of past tradition in relation to the Southern culture. The study of these plays concludes that the two major characters of females as a heroine are the "same person" while their roles are different at different stages of life.