Desire Flashcards

1
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stanley column quote

A

I pulled you down off them columns and how you loved it

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2
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the product of stanley and stella’s desire

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stella going to have a baby?

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3
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stanley sexually dominates stella

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lifts her off her feet

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4
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stanley and stella reconcile

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they come together with low, animal moans

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5
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stella’s serenity

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her eyes and lips have that almost narcoticised tranquility

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6
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Stella accuses stanley

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people like you abused her, and forced her to change

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7
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Stella explains to Blanche why she stays with Stanley

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there are things that happen between a man and a woman in the dark that sort of make everything else seem- unimportant

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8
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Stella’s wedding night

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on our wedding night…(he) rushed about the place smashing the lightbulbs

I was sort of thrilled by it

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9
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Blanche accuses Stella of abandoning Belle Reve

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Where were you? In bed with your polack!

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10
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Blanche’s desire to be loved

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you’re not glad to see me!

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11
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red satin robe

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blanche comes out of the bathroom in a red satin robe

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12
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Blanche’s desire to be attractive

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would you think it possible that i was once considered to be- attractive?

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13
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Blanche’s desire to be cleansed of the past

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Blanche? Bathing

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14
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Blanche’s past catches up with her

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the Flamingo was impressed by Dame Blanche

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15
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Blanche’s desire puts her at risk

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I was flirting with your husband Stella

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16
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Blanche’s dress gets ruined

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right on my pretty white dress

17
Q

the foil to death

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the opposite is desire

18
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Blanche attacks Stella’s desire

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Brutal desire! Just desire

19
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Blanche’s desire to be young

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young, young, young, young

I’ve got to be good and keep my hands off children

20
Q

blanche talks about her victims

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The Tarantula Arms! That’s were I brought my victims

21
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Blanche talks about how to deal with men like Stanley

A

The only way to live with such a man is to go to bed with him!
Someone you go out with once, twice, three times if the devil is with you

22
Q

Blanche’s journey to New Orleans

A

take a streetcar named desire…one called cemetries…get off at- Elysian Fields

23
Q

Stella defends her desire and renounces Blanche

A

I couldn’t believe her story and go on living with Stanley

no matter what happens you have to keep going

24
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musical motifs for desire

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low tone clarinet moans
blue piano
rhumba music over the radio

25
Stanley and Stella after Stanley hits her
There is a murmur of thunder as they go slowly back upstairs in a tight embrace
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Blanche is violated by stanley a final time
siezes the paper lantern tearing it off the light bulb
27
Stanley is victorious in the end
this game is seven card stud
28
Stanley's animalism
animal joy in his being
29
Stanley feels inhibited by Blanche's presence
not in front of your sister
30
Stanley and the inevitably of him and Blanche
We had this date with eachother from the beginning
31
Stanley hits Stella
There is the sound of a blow
32
Stanley's pyjamas
The silk pyjamas I wore on my wedding night!
33
Coloured lights
get those coloured lights going
34
Stanley dreaming of Blanche leaving
God honey it's gonna be sweet when we can make noise in the night the way we used to
35
Stanley's secual prowess in stage directions
gaudy seed-bearer he sizes up woman up at a glance, with sexual classifications
36
forshadowing of stanley raping blanche
jerked out armfuls of dresses
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stanley exerting his sexual dominance over blanche
he starts to remove his shirt