Class and Power - DOM + SCND Flashcards
Moral equality of class - Antonio 2:3
‘The great are like the base, nay they are the same, when they seek shameful ways to avoid shame’
Strains of status - Duchess 1:2
‘the misery of us that are born great’
Sense of inferiority due to class separation - Antonio 1:2
‘O my unworthiness’
Saviour complex of upper classes - Cardinal 2:4
‘I have taken you off your melancholy perch’
The influence of the upper classes on the whole of society - Antonio 1:1
‘a prince’s court is like a common fountain […] some curs’d example poison in the head, death and disease through the whole land spread’
Upper class morality - Blanche 6
‘I have… old fashioned ideals!’
Segregation of classes - Stella 1
‘a different species’
Drop in class status - Stanley 8
‘I pulled you down off them columns and how you loved it, having them coloured lights going’
Class imagery - Stage Directions 1
[roughly dressed in blue denim work clothes]
Class and sexuality shaming - Blanche 1
‘In bed with your… Polack!’
Embodying the American dream - Stanley 8
‘one hundred percent American, born and raised in the greatest country on Earth and proud as hell of it’
High class in a lower class setting - SD
[incongruous to this setting]
Maintaining status - Stanley 8
‘I am the King around here’
Class and corrupt dominance - Antonio 1:1
‘he strews in his way flatterers, panders, intelligencers, atheists and a thousand such political monsters’
Combatting racism - Stanley 8
‘I am not a Polack’
Resentment at Blanche’s higher class - Stanley 2
‘where are your pearls and gold bracelets?’
Classicism - Blanche 4
‘he’s common!’
Sacrifice of the lower classes - Bosola 1:1
‘I fell to the galleys in your service’
Purity of blood - Cardinal 1:3
‘sway your high blood’
Setting of New Orleans
[intermingling of races]
Power over life and death - Antonio 1:1
‘dooms men to death by information, rewards by hearsay’
Dehumanisation of the lower classes - Blanche 1:1
‘acts like an animal, has an animal’s habits’
Malcontent and a lack of meritocracy - Bosola 1:1
‘miserable age, where the only reward of doing well is the doing of it’
