Although we live in the modern day and it may seem like hundreds of people are around, some can suddenly be affected by the torment of loneliness. There are many harmful sides to the problem of being lonely and corruption due to loneliness is not an uncommon thing especially when it is severe and could ruin someone’s life. The piece of writing A Streetcar Named Desire and the TV show Revenge prove that the difficulty to find refuge from loneliness ultimately drives a person to their downfall using two characters, those characters being Blanche DuBois from the play A Streetcar Named Desire and Louis Ellis from the TV show Revenge. While both these characters trust others who betray them, create illusions of relationships, …show more content…
She always put her down calling her “slut and unstable” (“Intel”), telling her she was “never good enough, smart enough or pretty enough” (“Meteor”), it put Louis in a bad place, being desperate and also trusting everyone she meets. Louise is constantly being called “mentally imbalanced” (“Intel”), by people she thought were trusting. Throughout the show, Louis often meets people who betray her thinking they will comfort or help her but this actually ends up being the total opposite. When Louis is sent to a mental institution, she meets a woman named Victoria and at one point she tells her that she was like a mother to her it is then revealed that they “were roommates for a day” (“Damage”). Louis clearly trusts people way too easily, mainly because the desolate need for people in her life and the desperation that comes along with having no one to comfort and encourage her rather than put her down. Many people use others for their own good, possibly for their money, beauty, or sexual desires but in this case Louis was used many times for her upper class and wealth, after people get what they want then they leave and “before you know it people won’t care one bit about you” (“Ambush”). Louise was constantly abandoned by people she thought she could trust, this affected her emotionally and …show more content…
Blanche causes herself loneliness due to illusions she makes out of reality and eventually, leading her to insanity. Throughout the play, Blanche constantly makes allusions about her relationships. When Blanche was sixteen she “made the discovery - love. All at once and much, much too completely” (Williams 114). Love is what initially leads her to all the illusions that are made. Blanche met Allen Grey, a perfect man that had “a nervousness, a softness and tenderness which wasn't like a man's although he wasn't the least bit effeminate" (Williams 114). As we are shown in the play, this allusion would not last a life time. To Blanche, it seemed like her and Allen were falling more and more in love, she did not find any problems with their relationship, then one day walking into a room that she thought was empty only to see her husband sleeping with another man. She kept on falling farther into the illusion with every passing second in their relationship without noticing that her husband is gay. Blanche’s illusion about her marriage did in fact aggravate her loneliness since after his death it drove her to