There are many situations in life which are related to reality and they can be illusional because of your own perspective. a quote that supports this is “ Reality is that which, when you stop believing it, doesn’t go away”. This quote explains that reality is something that even if you don’t believe in it or if you don’t think its true it still doesn’t go away. You can’ deny the fact that that fact is true no matter what. You can make a situation unreal just because of the way you think or you don’t want to face the truth. This quote also explains that you can’t deny the harshness of the truth by consoling yourself. Some people in their lives go through many changes and many phases and they have to face many bitter truths but they try to make it a lie in their own mind by saying that its nothing or such thing like that doesn’t exist. In fact they are consoling themselves because they know that the harsh truth will really hurt them.
This quote is true because I have seen many people go through a lot of situations like that and they just don’t want to face the reality. There are many works of literature that support this quote. The first work of literature that supports this quote is a play by Tennessee Williams “ A Streetcar Named Desire” and another play “Macbeth” by William Shakespeare tells about the characters about how they do many things without thinking and then they just don’t want to face the situation.
The play “ A Streetcar Named Desire” by Tennessee Williams confirms that the quote is related to the play. In this play, it shows a story of two sisters. One of the sister Blanche is unmarried and has a dark past which she hides from everyone. Her life is full of lies even lies that her sister doesn’t know. Her sister Stella is married to Stanley and is pregnant. Her sister arrives and many things get revealed about her past. In the story Blanche gets mixed up with a lot of men and her sister does not know about this. When Blanche arrives at Stella’s home, her husband finds out all the truth about her and tells Mitch who was dating her sister in law. She gets mixed up with all these men because she had a dark past about herself which was getting married to a boy named Allen who turned to be gay and then he shot himself when his life found out about this. She gets mixed up with all these men including a seventeen year old boy because she is running away from her past. She doesn’t want to face her past and thats why she became involved with everyone. A second example, is that Blanche’s brother in law rapes her in the end and she tells her sister about it. Her sister Stella doesn’t believe her and this becomes an emotional breakdown for her.
This situation shows that Stella is living in a illusion that her husband is perfect when in reality he is not. Stella is living in an illusion because her husband always shows her that he loves when in fact he is shrewd from inside. The author’s use of symbolism in “A Streetcar Named Desire” connects to the quote “ Reality is that which, when you stop believing it, doesn’t go away” by showing how the characters are believing in something which does not exist, which has never happened.
The second piece of work which connects to the quote is “Macbeth” by William Shakespeare. Macbeth is a tragic play by William Shakespeare that shows a story of a king who kills everyone to get the throne. In this play, Macbeth meets the witches in the beginning and they tell him how he will be the the king and the Thane of Cawdor in the future. He believes them and he does a lot of things which leads him to his death. At first he kills king Duncan, then he kills Banquo and then he becomes the king in the end but his guilt fills him with fear. First example that relates to this quote is that in the beginning and in the middle of the story he believes the witches that he will be the king and the Thane of Cawdor when he does not know what the future has for him. He was living under this illusion and he kills many of his close friends so that no one is left to be the king. In the end, he does become a king but then he gets killed by one his close friends Macduff.
Another Example of illusion is that when he sees the ghost of Banquo and gets scared because he thinks that Banquo came back for revenge. In fact, there was nothing, it was his guilt which was created this fear inside him which was making him get mad gradually. This shows that he was struggling with his own feelings and then he committed a mistake by killing King Duncan and Banquo. This illusion was making him mentally unstable. The author’s use of conflict in “Macbeth” connects to the quote “Reality is that which, when you stop believing it, doesn’t go away” by showing how Macbeth was living under the illusion of being a king forever but the n in the end the future had something else for him which was being killed by Macduff. This shows how his one illusion can’t change the reality of him killing other people just for the throne. He can’t change the fact that he has murdered other people for his own benefit. The quote “Reality is that which, when you stop believing it, doesn’t go away” shows how you can’t change the truth by your own opinion or by not believing in it.
Even if you may not believe in it, it will still be the truth which you cannot deny. Both “A Streetcar Named Desire” by Tennessee Williams and “Macbeth” by William Shakespeare shows that the character are living under an illusion because they are looking it from their own point of view and they don’t believe in it. Stella believes how her husband is perfect when in reality he is not a good person and rapes her sister Blanche by taking advantage of her mental instablility and her past. Macbeth was lving under the illusion of being a king when in reality he gets killed by his own friend Macduff. Also, Macbeth can’t deny the fact that he killed many people to get the throne. As you can see, many characters commit a big mistake by living under illusion and this leads them to something they don’t want to know. In reality, truth is always bitter and illusion is always going to make you believe in something which is not real.
