259. A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
To begin with, this is a fantastic play. The themes it covers are as relevant today as they were at the time and a simple twitter search will support this: the play is still acted on stage and the people still love it. A Streetcar Named Desire (1947) is about the effects of society's buckram moral dictates and norms on those who stand against them - individuals who, in living their lives and expressing themselves, go against these formalised regulations. It is easy to take today's liberties, and society's indifference to certain behaviours, for granted. It is easy to think that it has always been like that. The truth, however, is that the strong-hold of society - usually through religious dicta - on the actions of the individual means most of the freedom enjoyed today has at one time being fought for. Even today, the black American society has a dictum against their kinds who go about in their natural woolly hair. Ask Gabby Douglas , when she won Olympic gold in Gy...