Jan Mock Streetcar and malfi quotes Flashcards
Quotes, critical quotes and context from the whole of Streetcar and first 3 acts of Malfi
Setting secrecy malfi
- ‘dark lantern’- Bosola
- ‘Sure I did hear a woman shriek’- B
- ‘nor path nor friendly clue to be my guide’- D
- ‘Cariola goes behind arras’
Setting secrecy streetcar
’ under cover of the trains noise Stanley enters’
‘undershirt and grease stained pants’
‘ she goes round the corner of the building
not to duchess
Setting morality Malfi
‘a prince’s court is like a common fountain’
‘flow pure silver drops’- A
Setting morality Streetcar
‘back wall transparent’
‘prostitute rolled a drunkard’ ‘struggle’
setting territory Malfi
‘lovely squire that carries coal up to her lodgings’
‘lay her general territory to waste’
Setting territory Streetcar
‘Get OUT of the bathroom!’
‘singing contrapuntally’
Violence constantly alluded to Malfi
‘I would have their bodies burnt in a coal pit’
‘Whose throat must I cut?’ B
Violence constantly alluded to Streetcar
‘seizes the atomizer;
‘snatched the letters up’
‘rips off the ribbon’
Violence power and control Malfi
‘toss her palace bout her ears’
‘lay her general territory to waste’
Violence power and control Streetcar
‘hurls the phone to the floor, dissonant brass and piano as room fades to darkness’
‘tosses radio’
Violence sexuality Malfi
‘this was my fathers poinard. do you see?’
‘I loathe to see it grow rusty’
Violence sexuality Streetcar
‘maybe he’ll strike you or maybe he’ll grunt and kiss you’
‘we’ve had this date with each other since the beginning’
gender female secrecy as an attack Malfi
‘as those that trade in poison keep poison from their children’
‘lovely squire that carries coal up to her lodgings’
stan spying, investigating
gender female secrecy as an attack Streetcar
‘under cover of the trains noise Stanley enters’
‘snatched the letters up’
‘rips off the ribbon’
Gender male sexuality as violent Malfi
‘this was my fathers poinard. do you see?’
‘toss her palace bout her ears’
Gender male sexuality as violent Streetcar
‘we’ve had this date with each other since the beginning!’
‘maybe he’ll strike you, or maybe he’ll grunt and kiss you!’
Gender women as objects Malfi
‘this is flesh and blood, sir, not the alabaster kneels’
‘lay her general territory to waste’
Gender women as objects Streetcar
‘soft people have got to be seductive, put on soft colours’
‘comes around corner in blowing shirt, stands in potieres in silk bra’
Stagecraft light Malfi
‘dark lantern’
‘stains the time past, lights the time to come’
Stagecraft light Streetcar
‘seizes paper lantern, tearing it off’
‘lurid reflections’
Stagecraft props Malfi
‘kind of pity in mine eye (handkerchief F)
‘vowed never to part with it’- ring D
Stagecraft props streetcar
‘hangs open with flowery dresses’
‘dragged to the centre of the room’
Stagecraft soundscape malfi
‘Sure I did hear a woman shriek’- B
‘whos there? what art thou?’
Outsiders psychological isolation Malfi
‘we bear a rotten and dead body’
‘rails at those things which he wants’
Outsiders psychological isolation Streetcar
‘I dont listen when you’re morbid!’
‘soft people have got to be seductive, put on soft colours’
Outsiders loss of identity Malfi
‘inward rust to the soul’
‘I am your creature’
Outsiders loss of identity Streetcar
‘crumpled white satin gown, scuffed silver heels’
‘whoever you are- I have always depended on the kindness of strangers’-mystery, homosexuality
Outsiders disruptors to social class Malfi
‘O, good Antonio, I fear I am undone’
‘only court gall’- Ant
gall- defect, black bile humours, malcontent
Outsiders disruptors to social class Streetcar
‘incongruous to the setting, daintily white suit’
‘what do you think you are? a pair of queens?’
Class as a source of power malfi
‘I am your creature;
‘this was my fathers poinard. do you see?’
Class as a source of power Streetcar
‘Meat! (heaves package at her)’
‘I am the king round here so don’t you forget it!’
Class mixing as bad Malfi
‘purge infected blood, such blood as hers!’- F
‘toss her palace bout her ears’
Class mixing as bad Streetcar
‘what do you think you are? a pair of queens?’
‘appearance incongruous, daintily’
Class female class as delicate Malfi
‘Sure I did hear a woman shriek’- B
‘O, good Antonio, I fear I am undone’
Class female class as delicate Streetcar
‘I pulled you down off them columns!’
‘crumpled white satin gown, scuffed silver heels’
Blanche as dangerous criticism
‘Blanche is dangerous. She is destructive. Stanley’s got things the way he wants them.’
Elia Kazan, director
Masculinity criticism Streetcar
‘weak and unadjusted masculinity’ - Costa
tragedy Streetcar crit.
‘There are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people… It is a tragedy- Williams
tender Streetcar crit.
‘the ravishment of the tender… brutal forces of modern society’- Williams
women Malfi crit
‘ordinary women, that is precisely her problem.’- Bill Alexander
Jacobean secrecy crit Malfi
‘privacy seemed a menace to the public well-being’- Orlin
malcontents criticism Malfi
nashe ‘fake and pretentious identity parasitic on society’
Webster criticism Malfi
‘tussade laureate’- shaw
malfi setting structure criticism
‘shadowy morality’- emma smith
stanley streetcar race criticism
ROBERT REA- racial other
Race and music in New Orleans context
- post-war - new immigrants, ‘not quite white’
- mixing of styles of music- downfall
- racial mix of african american piano music is upsetting to regressive, xenophobic blanche
women in streetcar context
- post-war- position as homemakers changing
- Southern Belle debutante, plantations
Streetcar slavery and monarchy context
- one of the first cities to allow interracial marriage
- extensive colonialism- lack of power for colonialists- Stan represents the modern pusher of boundaries
Malfi James I context
- seen as effeminate and homosexual
- missing a strong female leader
Huey long streetcar context
- populist politician from Louisiana
- “Share Our Wealth” program, distrust of elitism, working class,
