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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-last 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?

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