Death and Mortality - DOM + SCND

Question 1

Horoscope foreshadows tragedy - Bosola 2:3

Answer 1

‘doth threaten violent death’

Question 2

Setting symbolises a fall from power - Antonio 5:3

Answer 2

‘ancient ruins’

Question 3

Link to death and political instability - Antonio 1:1

Answer 3

‘some curs’d example poison’t near the head, death and disease through the whole land spread’

Question 4

Setting as an allusion - S

Answer 4

‘Elysian Fields’

Question 5

Death of the Old South - Blanche 1

Answer 5

‘the Grim Reaper had put up his tent on our doorstep’

Question 6

Apprehension of tragedy - Blanche 6

Answer 6

‘the first time I laid eyes on him I thought to myself, this man is my executioner!’

Question 7

Escape of death - Duchess 4:1

Answer 7

‘I account this world a tedious theatre, for I do play a part in’t ‘gainst my will’

Question 8

Merit of death - Ferdinand 4:2

Answer 8

‘I had hoped […] to have gained an infinite mass of treasure by her death’

Question 9

Purity in death - Blanche 11

Answer 9

‘I’ll be buried at sea, sewn up in a clean white sack and dropped overboard’

Question 10

Imagery of death in setting - Streetcar

Answer 10

[Cemeteries] the name of the streetcar

Question 11

Funerals - Blanche 1

Answer 11

‘and funerals are pretty compared to deaths’

Question 12

Music and death trauma - Streetcar

Answer 12

Varsouviana

Question 13

Representing Blanche’s mental state - Mexican flower lady 9

Answer 13

‘flores para los muertos’

Question 14

Death as an escape - Duchess 4:2

Answer 14

‘come violent death’

Question 15

Violent death and the afterlife - Ferdinand 3:1

Answer 15

‘I would have their bodies burnt in a coal pit with the ventage stopp’d that their cursed smoke might not ascend to heaven’

Question 16

Power over death - Antonio 1:2

Answer 16

‘dooms men to death’

Question 17

Taunting with images of death - Stage directions 4:1

Answer 17

[artificial figures of Antonio and his children: as if they were dead]

Question 18

Haunted by death of Alan - Blanche 1

Answer 18

‘the boy - the boy died’

Question 19

Haunted by death of Belle Reve - Blanche 1

Answer 19

‘all of those deaths! The long parade to the graveyard’

Question 20

Apprehension of her own decline - Blanche 6

Answer 20

‘that man is my executioner’

Question 21

Fatalist horoscope - Bosola 2:3

Answer 21

‘a child’s nativity calculated’

Question 22

Foreshadowing contents of the horoscope - Bosola 2:3

Answer 22

‘signifies short life […[ doth threaten a violent death’

Question 23

Antonio as a fatalist on the powerlessness of men - Antonio 5:3

Answer 23

‘all things must have their end: Churches and cities […] must have like death that we have’

Question 24

Fatalist - Antonio

Answer 24

‘you’ll find it impossible to fly your fate’

Question 25

The Duchess is not a fatalist and encourages Antonio to act for his own safety (in echoes from beyond the grave) - 5:3

Answer 25

'O fly your fate'

Question 26

A victim of fate - Bosola 5:5

Answer 26

'we are merely the stars' tennis-balls, struck and banded which way please them'

Question 27

Astrological sign of Stanley's drive and vitality, also demonic - Blanche 5

Answer 27

'capricorn - the goat!'

Question 28

Astrological sign of Blanche's idealised purity - Blanche 5

Answer 28

'virgo is the virgin'

Question 29

The streetcar as a symbol of fate and inevitability - Blanche 4

Answer 29

'it brought me here - where I'm not wanted and am ashamed to be'

Question 30

Nose bleed as an omen - Antonio 2:3

Answer 30

'my nose bleeds, one that were superstitious, would count that ominous'

Question 31

Nose bleed - Antonio 2:3

Answer 31

'drown'd in blood'

Question 32

Omen of the wedding ring - Antonio 1:2

Answer 32

'there is a saucy and ambitious devil dancing in this circle'

Question 33

Will of death - Duchess 4:2

Answer 33

'pull, and pull strongly, for you able strength must pull down heaven upon me'

Question 34

Symbols of death - 4:2

Answer 34

[a [shrouded] coffin, cords and a bell]

Question 35

Omen of death - 9

Answer 35

[a blind Mexican woman in a dark shall, carrying bunched of those gaudy tin flowers that lower class Mexicans display at funerals]

Question 36

Omen of the streetcars - Blanche 1

Answer 36

'they told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one named Cemeteries'

Question 37

Disregards fate - Duchess 3:2

Answer 37

'thou art a superstitious fool'

Question 38

Belief in intervention - Antonio 3:5

Answer 38

'heaven hath a hand in't'

Question 39

Predestining her future - Stanley 7

Answer 39

'her future is mapped out for her'