Madness - DOM + SCND

Question 1

Fear of reality - Blanche 9

Answer 1

‘I don’t want realism. I’ll tell you what I want. Magic!’

Question 2

Effect of social pressures - Stella 8

Answer 2

‘because people like you abused her, and forced her to change’

Question 3

Trauma - Blanche 1

Answer 3

‘The boy - the boy died - I’m afraid I’m going to be sick!’

Question 4

Aural devices representing Blanche’s mental state

Answer 4

‘polka’ (past), ‘a locomotive is heard’ (industrialisation), ‘blue piano’ (depression and loneliness)

Question 5

Cathartic cleansing suggesting guilt

Answer 5

[Blanche is bathing]

Question 6

Suffering and suggestion of suicide - Duchess 4:1

Answer 6

‘I account this world a tedious theatre, for I do play a part in it ‘gainst my will’

Question 7

Depression - Antonio 5:4

Answer 7

‘Pleasure of life, what is’t?’

Question 8

Insanity, lycanthropy - Ferdinand 4:2

Answer 8

‘I’ll go hunt the badger by owl light, ‘tis a deed of darkness’

Question 9

Desiring madness - Duchess 4:2

Answer 9

‘I am not mad yet, to my cause of sorrow’

Question 10

Admiration for her strength - Bosola

Answer 10

‘She gives majesty to adversity’

Question 11

Aural devices, Charvari of the madmen

Answer 11

[a dismal kind of music]