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1.0简介
    本论文旨在探索欲望号街车布兰奇的悲剧的原因。首先，本节将简要介绍了田纳西·威廉斯的生活和他的作品的这种写法和他自己的人生经历有密切的关系。
1.0 Introduction
    The thesis is aimed at exploring the causes of Blanche’s tragedy in A Streetcar Named Desire. First of all, this section will present a brief introduction of Tennessee Williams’ life and his works with the purpose of showing the close relation of this play and his own life experiences.
1.1田纳西·威廉斯的生平及著述的调查
田纳西·威廉斯不仅美国戏剧的发展产生了强大的影响力，也是今天的英语口语剧院的历史中公认的最有成就的剧作家之一。通过他的生活，他写了25全长戏剧，超过40个短剧，生产和非生产了十几个剧本，其中，九戏剧被改编为电影。威廉姆斯得到几乎所有的顶级戏剧奖，他的作品的剧情，包括几个纽约戏剧评论家协会奖，托尼奖最佳戏剧，戏剧玫瑰纹身（1951年），普利策奖欲望号街车（ 1948年）和热铁皮屋顶上的猫（1955）。在1980年，他被美国总统吉米·卡特授予自由勋章。
1.1 A Survey on Tennessee Williams’ Life and His Works https://www.51lunwen.org/ps/
　　　Tennessee Williams not only had a powerful influence on the development of American drama, but also is today acknowledged as one of the most accomplished playwrights in the history of English speaking theater. Through all his life he wrote twenty-five full-length plays, more than forty short plays and a dozen produced (and unproduced ) screenplays and of which, nine plays were adapted for the cinema. Williams received virtually all of the top theatrical awards for his works of drama, including several New York Drama Critics' Circle awards, a Tony Award for best play for The Rose Tattoo (1951), the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for A Streetcar Named Desire (1948) and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955). In 1980 he was honored with the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Jimmy Carter.
    Tennessee Williams was born of English, Welsh and Huguenot descent, in Columbus Mississippi, the second child and the first son of Edwina and Cornelius Coffin (C.C.) Williams. His father was a hard-drinking traveling shoe salesman who spent most of his time away from home. His mother, Edwina, was an archetype of the ‘Southern belle’, whose social aspirations tilted toward snobbery and whose behavior could be neurotic and hysterical. His family included an elder sister Rose (1909–1996), and a younger brother, Dakin (1919–2008). Williams developed a close bond with his sister who was diagnosed with schizophrenia as a young adult and later institutionalized following a lobotomy. Shy, fragile and predisposed to emotional disturbances, eventually to the point of mental illness, Rose inspired a host of characters in his fiction.
    As a small child Williams suffered a bout of diphtheria which nearly ended his life and left him weak and virtually confined to his house during a period of recuperation that lasted a year. At least in part as a result of his illness, he was less robust as a child than his father would have wished. Cornelius Williams was a descendant of east Tennessee pioneer stock (hence Williams’ professional name) and a man prone to use his fists. He disdained his son’s effeminacy and persistently called him “sissy” and “Miss Nancy”. However, Williams’ mother, Edwina Dakin, the beautiful high-strung daughter of the rector, represented the gentility of the “Southern belle”. The family life soon became a battle of opposites, which had a life-long impact on Williams’ life and works. Naturally Williams got the heritance of a continuing struggle between the flesh and the spirit from his parent, as he once said “Roughly there was a combination of Puritan and Cavalier strains in my blood which may be accountable for the conflicting impulses I of