Death and Mortality - DOM + SCND Flashcards
Horoscope foreshadows tragedy - Bosola 2:3
‘doth threaten violent death’
Setting symbolises a fall from power - Antonio 5:3
‘ancient ruins’
Link to death and political instability - Antonio 1:1
‘some curs’d example poison’t near the head, death and disease through the whole land spread’
Setting as an allusion - S
‘Elysian Fields’
Death of the Old South - Blanche 1
‘the Grim Reaper had put up his tent on our doorstep’
Apprehension of tragedy - Blanche 6
‘the first time I laid eyes on him I thought to myself, this man is my executioner!’
Escape of death - Duchess 4:1
‘I account this world a tedious theatre, for I do play a part in’t ‘gainst my will’
Merit of death - Ferdinand 4:2
‘I had hoped […] to have gained an infinite mass of treasure by her death’
Purity in death - Blanche 11
‘I’ll be buried at sea, sewn up in a clean white sack and dropped overboard’
Imagery of death in setting - Streetcar
[Cemeteries] the name of the streetcar
Funerals - Blanche 1
‘and funerals are pretty compared to deaths’
Music and death trauma - Streetcar
Varsouviana
Representing Blanche’s mental state - Mexican flower lady 9
‘flores para los muertos’
Death as an escape - Duchess 4:2
‘come violent death’
Violent death and the afterlife - Ferdinand 3:1
‘I would have their bodies burnt in a coal pit with the ventage stopp’d that their cursed smoke might not ascend to heaven’
Power over death - Antonio 1:2
‘dooms men to death’
Taunting with images of death - Stage directions 4:1
[artificial figures of Antonio and his children: as if they were dead]
Haunted by death of Alan - Blanche 1
‘the boy - the boy died’
Haunted by death of Belle Reve - Blanche 1
‘all of those deaths! The long parade to the graveyard’
Apprehension of her own decline - Blanche 6
‘that man is my executioner’
