Gender - DOM + SCND

Question 1

Female appearances - Stanley 2

Answer 1

‘I never met a woman who didn’t know if she was good looking or not without being told’

Question 2

Patriarchy - Stanley 8

Answer 2

‘Every man is a King!’

Question 3

Stanley’s arrogant masculinity - 1

Answer 3

[richly feathered male bird among hens]

Question 4

Drive of sexuality and violence - Blanche 4

Answer 4

‘brutal desire!’

Question 5

Sexual obsession - Stella 4

Answer 5

‘there are things that happen between a man and a woman in the dark that make everything else seem unimportant’

Question 6

Symbol of the divide between male and female world

Answer 6

‘the portieres’

Question 7

Sinfulness off sex - Bosola 2:2

Answer 7

‘the devil takes delight to hang at a woman’s girdle’

Question 8

Strength and resilience in femininity - Duchess 4:2

Answer 8

‘I am Duchess of Malfi still’

Question 9

Control of women - Cardinal 1:2

Answer 9

‘the marriage night is the entrance into some prison’

Question 10

Sexual liberty - Duchess 1:2

Answer 10

‘Diamonds are of most value, they say, that have passed through most jewellers’ hands’

Question 11

Sexual threat - Ferdinand 1:2

Answer 11

‘this was my father’s poniard’

Question 12

Sexual shaming - Blanche 1

Answer 12

‘in bed with your Polack!’

Question 13

Looming sexual threat - Stanley 10

Answer 13

‘we’ve had this date with each other from the beginning!’

Question 14

Sexual obsession - Stage Directions 1

Answer 14

[the centre of Stanley’s life has been pleasure with women]

Question 15

Distrust, lacking sincerity in relationship - Cardinal 5:2

Answer 15

‘thou coulds’t not keep my council’

Question 16

Dependence on men - Cardinal 2:4

Answer 16

‘You may thank me lady, I have taken you off your melancholy perch’

Question 17

Dependence on men - Blanche

Answer 17

‘I have got to keep dreaming and hoping and praying for Shep’

Question 18

Sexuality and animalism - Stage Directions 3

Answer 18

[low, animal moans]

Question 19

Suggests his mother should be branded as a prostitute - Hamlet 3:4

Answer 19

‘takes off the rose from the fair forehead of an innocent love and sets a blister there’

Question 20

Questions why her gender differentiates her in position of power - Duchess 3:2

Answer 20

‘why should I of all the other princes of the world be cased up like a holy relic’

Question 21

Submissive relationship - Cardinal and Julia 2:4

Answer 21

‘sit’ ‘my lord’

Question 22

Female desire - Ferdinand 1:3

Answer 22

‘lusty widow’

Question 23

Promiscuous past - Stanley 7

Answer 23

‘a seventeen-year-old boy - she’d gotten mixed up with!’

Question 24

Sense of power in her sexuality - Blanche 9

Answer 24

‘that’s where I brought my victims’

Question 25

Destruction of desire - Blanche 4

Answer 25

'it brought me here'

Question 26

Blanche as a result of her promiscuous background - Stanley 7

Answer 26

'school of sharks'

Question 27

Her own desire - Blanche

Answer 27

'you make my mouth water'

Question 28

Acceptability of male violence - Duchess 3:5

Answer 28

'were I a man I'd beat that counterfeit face into thy other'

Question 29

Antonio hides when Ferdinand threatens her - Antonio 3:2

Answer 29

'steal forth the room'

Question 30

Sense of weakness as a woman - Stella 7

Answer 30

'if I were a man and this creature had dares to invent such things in my presence'

Question 31

Dominance in marriage - Stanley 2

Answer 31

'since when do you give me orders'

Question 32

Violence toward the trunk - 2

Answer 32

[jerks out an armful of dresses]

Question 33

Asserts masculine dominance through uncovering her - Stanley 7

Answer 33

'I found out some things [...] things I already suspected'

Question 34

Mitch tries to assault Blanche - 9

Answer 34

[he places his hands on her waist and tries to turn her about]

Question 35

Mitch's masculinity - Blanche 6

Answer 35

'you are not the delicate type [...] very imposing physique'

Question 36

Praise of Mitch - Blanche 6

Answer 36

'you are a natural gentleman'

Question 37

Sympathetic qualities - Blanche 6

Answer 37

'I think you have a great capacity for devotion'

Question 38

Detracts from Mitch's masculinity - Stanley 11

Answer 38

'bone-headed cry baby'

Question 39

Assertion of her power through masculine reference - Duchess 3:2

Answer 39

'whether I am doomed to live or die I can do so like a prince'

Question 40

Dependant on men for fulfilment - Blanche 9

Answer 40

'intimacies with strangers was all I seemed to fill my empty heart with'

Question 41

Dependence on Mitch - Blanche 9

Answer 41

'a cleft in the rock of the world that I could hide in'