@article{ART002377765},
author={Yoon, Hee Oyck},
title={Tennessee William's A Streetcar Named Desire: A Study of the Eyesight and the Body of the Other through Jean-Paul Sartre's Concepts of Being and Nothingness},
journal={Journal of Modern English Drama},
issn={1226-3397},
year={2018},
volume={31},
number={2},
pages={81-108}
TY - JOUR
AU - Yoon, Hee Oyck
TI - Tennessee William's A Streetcar Named Desire: A Study of the Eyesight and the Body of the Other through Jean-Paul Sartre's Concepts of Being and Nothingness
JO - Journal of Modern English Drama
PY - 2018
VL - 31
IS - 2
PB - 한국현대영미드라마학회
SP - 81
EP - 108
SN - 1226-3397
AB - A Streetcar Named Desire is centered upon the dichotomy of the romantic world of Blanche and the bestial world of Stanley. Blanche's desperate longing for human kindness and salvation is vividly contrasted with Stanley’s brutal animality which strips away her romantic illusion and ruins her life. As Williams suggests, we are thrown into the arena of existence in which sex stands at the center of our human struggle. Sex is the only exit through which we forget what we want to forget, and becomes a medium to our only dependable distraction.
Williams argues that our existence in this situation is the game of being against non-being. Significantly Sartre also calls human existence the game of being and nothingness. In their own fields Sartre and Williams commonly diagnose this mode of existence as a sinister symptom of modern society. In this context, it is important to grasp that the game of being and non-being waged between Blanche and Stanley in this play is deeply intertwined with Sartre's notions of eyesight and the body of the other. Blanche's sexual desire, her consciousness of the other's eyesight, and Stanley's brutal sadism intensively dealt with by Williams are more clearly explicated in view of Sartre's concepts of the eyesight and the body of the other, bad faith, masochism and sadism. Thus the correlative reading of this play and Sartre's Being and Nothingness provides new insight for probing the two worlds of Blanche and Stanley.
KW - Sartre;being and nothingness;the eyesight and the body of the other;sadism;masochism
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Yoon, Hee Oyck. (2018). Tennessee William's A Streetcar Named Desire: A Study of the Eyesight and the Body of the Other through Jean-Paul Sartre's Concepts of Being and Nothingness. Journal of Modern English Drama, 31(2), 81-108.
Yoon, Hee Oyck. 2018, "Tennessee William's A Streetcar Named Desire: A Study of the Eyesight and the Body of the Other through Jean-Paul Sartre's Concepts of Being and Nothingness", Journal of Modern English Drama, vol.31, no.2 pp.81-108.
Yoon, Hee Oyck "Tennessee William's A Streetcar Named Desire: A Study of the Eyesight and the Body of the Other through Jean-Paul Sartre's Concepts of Being and Nothingness" Journal of Modern English Drama 31.2 pp.81-108 (2018) : 81.
Yoon, Hee Oyck. Tennessee William's A Streetcar Named Desire: A Study of the Eyesight and the Body of the Other through Jean-Paul Sartre's Concepts of Being and Nothingness. 2018; 31(2), 81-108.
Yoon, Hee Oyck. "Tennessee William's A Streetcar Named Desire: A Study of the Eyesight and the Body of the Other through Jean-Paul Sartre's Concepts of Being and Nothingness" Journal of Modern English Drama 31, no.2 (2018) : 81-108.
Yoon, Hee Oyck. Tennessee William's A Streetcar Named Desire: A Study of the Eyesight and the Body of the Other through Jean-Paul Sartre's Concepts of Being and Nothingness. Journal of Modern English Drama, 31(2), 81-108.
Yoon, Hee Oyck. Tennessee William's A Streetcar Named Desire: A Study of the Eyesight and the Body of the Other through Jean-Paul Sartre's Concepts of Being and Nothingness. Journal of Modern English Drama. 2018; 31(2) 81-108.
Yoon, Hee Oyck. Tennessee William's A Streetcar Named Desire: A Study of the Eyesight and the Body of the Other through Jean-Paul Sartre's Concepts of Being and Nothingness. 2018; 31(2), 81-108.
Yoon, Hee Oyck. "Tennessee William's A Streetcar Named Desire: A Study of the Eyesight and the Body of the Other through Jean-Paul Sartre's Concepts of Being and Nothingness" Journal of Modern English Drama 31, no.2 (2018) : 81-108.
