Madness

Question 1

Blanche on being alone

Answer 1

…I want to be near you, got to be with somebody, I can’t be alone! Because - as you must have noticed - I’m – not very well… [Her voice drops and her look is frightened.]

Scene 1

Question 2

Blanches opinion on the truth to Mitch

Answer 2

I don’t want realism. I want magic! [Mitch laughs] Yes, yes, magic! I try to give that to people. I misrepresent things to them. I don’t tell the truth, I tell what ought to be truth. And if that is sinful, then let me be damned for it!

Scene 9

Question 3

Blanches death

Answer 3

I’ll be buried at sea sewn up in a clean white sack and dropped overboard – at noon – in the blaze of summer – and into an ocean as blue as my first lover’s eyes!

Scene 11

Question 4

Duchess on wanting to be mad

Answer 4

I am not mad yet, to my cause of sorrow

Act 4 scene 2

Question 5

Antonio on ambition

Answer 5

Ambition, madam, is a great man’s madness.

Antonio, Act 1 Scene 3

Question 6

Ferdinand and his shadow

Answer 6

You are a fool: how is it possible I should catch my shadow, unless I fall upon ‘t?

Act 5 scene 2

Question 7

Doctor to Ferdinand

Answer 7

Are you mad, my lord? Are you out of your princely wits?

Act 5 scene 2