Hierachy / Social Class

Question 1

…I let the place go? Where were you! In bed with your – Polack!

Answer 1

B: To make her dote on some desertless fellow she shames to acknowledge

Question 2

[Her appearance is incongruous to the setting]

Answer 2

Antonio: “The only court gall”

Question 3

Stanley: The kowalskis and the dubois have different notions

Answer 3

B: Like plum trees that grow crooked over standing pools

Question 4

BLANCHE
Please don’t get up.
STANLEY
Nobody’s going to get up, so don’t be worried.

Answer 4

B: places in the court are but like beds in the hospital, where this man’s head lies at that man’s foot, and so lower,

Question 5

I was common as dirt. I pulled you down off them columns and how you loved it

Answer 5

Antonio to Bosola: Saucy slave I’ll pull thee up by the roots

Question 6

Stanley: Remember what Huey Long said – “Every Man is a King!” And I am the King around here, so don’t forget it.

Answer 6

D: I am duchess of Malfi still

Question 7

Stella: Belle reve? Lost is it-no..

Answer 7

Antonio: a princes court is like a common fountain ….

Some cursed example poison’t near the head, Death and diseases through the whole land

Question 8

Stanley: We have the Napoleonic code …. what belongs to the wife belongs to the husband

Answer 8

Duchess: We are now man and wife…We now are one

Question 9

Blanche; Maybe he’s what we need to mix our blood now Belle Reve’s lost”

Answer 9

Cardinal: The royal blood of Aragon..be thus attainted

Question 10

Blanche: “Polack - bestial - ape like - brute”

“Survivor of the Stone Age”

Answer 10

Bosola (semantic field of virtue/ renaissance man ): “too honest…unvalu’d jewel..excellent…virtue…perfection”

Question 11

Blanche: His civilian background

Answer 11

Bosola:

Forget this base, low fellow

Question 12

Antonio: the great are like the base nay,they are the same when they seek shameful ways to avoid shame

Answer 12

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