fantasy vs reality (illusions) Flashcards

1
Q

What Blanche wants

A

“I don’t want realism, I want magic!”

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2
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Blanche’s perceptive comment about charm

A

After all, a woman’s charm is fifty percent illusion.

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3
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The description of the kitchen in scene 3 for the poker night

A

The kitchen now suggests that sort of lurid nocturnal brilliance, the raw colors of childhood’s spectrum.

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4
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Blanche telling her pet peeves to Mitch

A

I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action

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5
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Blanche talking to the Evening Star boy

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Young man! Young, young, young man! Has anyone ever told you that you look like a young Prince out of the Arabian Nights?

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6
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Blanche fantasising about her and Mitch in France

A

We are going to be very Bohemian. We are going to pretend that we are sitting in a little artists’ café on the Left Bank in Paris!

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7
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Blanche talking about her husband’s suicide

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And then the searchlight which had been turned on the world was turned off again and never for one moment since has there been any light that’s stronger than this–kitchen–candle…

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8
Q

Blanche singing in the bathtub

A

It’s only a paper moon, Just as phony as it can be–But it wouldn’t be make-believe If you believed in me!

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9
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Stella explaining her decision to have Blanche sent to a mental institution to Eunice

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

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10
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Blanche as the poker players stand up on her exit in scene 11

A

Please don’t get up. I’m only passing through.

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11
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Stanley’s parting words to Blanche

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You left nothing here but spilt talcum and old empty perfume bottles–unless it’s the paper lantern you want to take with you. You want the lantern?

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12
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Blanche speaking to the doctor

A

Whoever you are—I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

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