Madness Flashcards
Female sexuality & the reception of society leading to mental decline -
Blanche
‘Whoever you are - I have always depended on the kindness of strangers
(She allows him to lead her as if she were blind)’
- ‘odd, sinuous shapes’ and the Varsouviana is ‘filtered into a weird distortion’.
The rapid, feverish polka tune, the ‘Varsouviana’ is heard.
They told me to take a street-car named Desire, and transfer to one called Cemeteries, and ride six blocks and get off at—Elysian Fields!
He [Stanley] crosses to the dressing table and seizes the paper lantern, tearing it off the light bulb, and extends it towards her. She cries out as if the lantern was herself.
‘The boy - the boy died… I’m afraid I’m - going to be sick!’
‘And funerals are pretty compared to deaths. Funerals are quiet, but deaths - not always’
i want to be near you, got to be with someone. i cant be alone! because, as you mustve noticed- im- not very well
Female sexuality & the reception of society leading to mental decline -
DOM
Paragraph 2 - Effect of madness of the Duchess
I am Duchess of Malfi still
‘Indeed I thank him. Nothing but noise and folly can keep me in my right wits”
“Necessity makes me suffer constantly, And custom makes it easy”
“Let them come in”
Bears it “nobly’”
“Curse upon her”
‘Whether the spirit of greatness or of woman… it shows a fearful madness’
“Secular priest”
‘Ambition, madam, is a great man’s madness’
Are you out of your princely wits?
“For know, whether I am doomed to live, or die,I can do both like a prince.”
Masculinity & desire to abuse (sexually) women leading to madness
Paragraph 3 - Ferdinand
‘I can be angry/ Without this rupture’
Ferdinand - “And, ‘cause she’ll needs to be mad, I am resolved to remove forth the common hospital all the mad folk and place
“Cover her face: mine eyes dazzle: she died young.”
“I have cruel sore eyes”
‘The Lord Ferdinand laughs./ Like a deadly cannon’
‘[Gives her a dead man’s hand]’
‘A very pestilent disease…/ They call lycanthrophia’
‘Methinks I see a thing armed with a rake/ That seems to strike at me’
As a sea before a tempest
‘The howling wolf is music to thee, screech owl, prithee peace’
Paragraph 4 - Stanley
“This game is a seven-card stud”
“his fingers find the opening of her blouse”
“We’ve had this date with each other since the beginning”
Coult ‘Stanley Kowalski as a symbol of this modern world, a masculine world’
Elliot - the sound is masculine, mechanical and very separate from the elegant
