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In Tennessee Williams's play A Streetcar Named Desire, the protagonist, Blanche DuBois, is a financially broken woman

who hopes to conceal her past and flee from it. In the
second-to-tast scene of the play, the ruthlessly practical and brutish antagonist Stanley Kowalski rapes Blanche and deliberately destroys her mental stability. Which universal theme is most directly symbolized by this interaction?

the link between sexual desire and death

illusions crushed by the force of reality

the conflict between reform and habit

social opposition to true love and religion

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I'm pretty sure the correct answer to this is B, illusions crushed by the force of reality.

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