Gender and Power textual quotes Flashcards
Blanche using Stanley’s class against him
‘Maybe he’ll strike you, or maybe grunt and kiss you!’
Blanche idealising the Old South to Stella
‘Such things as art – as poetry and music – such kinds of new light have come into the world since then!’
The Duchess’s political position being linked to promiscuity
‘Farewell, lusty widow’
The Duchess enjoying her political power but also willing to defy her court
‘If all my royal kindred / Lay in my way unto this marriage / I’d make them my low footsteps.’
Stanley being threatened by Blanche’s status - 2 quotes
‘Pearls! Ropes of them! […] Bracelets of solid gold, too! Where are your pearls and gold bracelets?’
‘You see, under the Napoleonic code – a man has to take an interest in his wife’s affairs – especially now that she’s going to have a baby’
Ferdinand being threatened by the Duchess’s expression of her sexuality - 3 quotes
‘Shall our blood – / the royal blood of Aragon and Castile – / be thus attainted?’
Ferdinand calls the Duchess an ‘Excellent hyena’ and tells the Cardinal to distract him ‘or my imagination will carry me / To see her in the shameful act of sin.’
Ferdinand’s own sexual desires
Ferdinand tells the Cardinal to speak to him ‘Or my imagination will carry me/ To see her in the shameful act of sin’
He also imagines Antionio as a ‘strong-thighed bargeman’
Stanley’s violation of Blanche through her sexuality
‘Her future is mapped out for her’
‘We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.’
Mitch’s violation of Blanche
‘Your’e not clean enough for my mother’ but still wants to get ‘what [he’s] been missing all summer’
Julia proving her reputation wrong to Delio
Delio says ‘Look on’t. ‘Tis gold. Hath it not a fine colour?’ and Julia respond ‘I have a bird more beautiful’
Contrasting the natural and wholesome with the materialistic and corrupt. Julia proves that she is not the whore that she has been presented as.
Julia proving her reputation is incorrect to Cardinal (and the audience)
Cardinal: ‘thou art a witty, false one’
Julia: ‘You have prevailed with me
Beyond my strongest thoughts. I would not now
Find you inconstant.’
Reveals that her decision to commit adultery was a painful one and that she experiences an ongoing conflict between the demands of sexuality and morality.
Julia defying proposal conventions
‘For if I see and steal a diamond,
The fault is not it’s’ stone, but in me the thief
That purloins it’
Linguistic link to the Duchess’s ‘diamonds are of most value, they say, that have passed through the most jewellers’ hands’
