Masculinity Flashcards
Blanche. I like an artist who paints […] in primary colours. I don’t like pinks
Duchess: I can do both like a prince
Semantic field of aggressive Verbs: ‘Heaves package at her’ ‘snatcges’ ‘stalks’ ‘jumps up’ ‘rips off the ribbon’ ‘licks lips’
Semantic field of aggression: ‘rip up his flesh’ ‘howl’d fearfully’ ‘i will throttle it’
[ men at the peak of their manhood coarse and direct as the primary colours]
Bosola: He comes i’th’ night;
S: Remember what huey long said, every man is a king and i am the king around here
D: I can do both like a prince
Stella on Stanley: Stanleys the only one of his crowd likely to get anywhere
B: Can this ambitious age
Have so much goodness in’t as to prefer
A man merely for worth, without these shadows
Of wealth and painted honours?
Blanche to Mitch: My Rosenkavalier
Bosola: Can this ambitious age
Have so much goodness in’t as to prefer
A man merely for worth, without these shadows
Of wealth and painted honours?
“geyser of foam shoots up”
F: This is my father’s poniard
Blanche: I want to kiss you - just once - [without waiting for hm to accept she … presses her lips to his]
Duchess: Kneel.
[She puts the ring upon his finger]
Stanley gives a loud whack of his hand on her thigh
[There is the sound of a blow]
Old Lady: (to bosola) you are still abusing women
Blanche: I don’t like pinks and creams and I never cared for wishy washy people
duchess: I can do both like a prince
Stella: if I were a man and his creature had dares to invent such things in my presence
Duchess: Were I a man I’d beat that counterfeit face
Cardinal: you may thank me lady
Anna ou
He crosses…and seizes the paper lantern, tearing it off the lightbulb
F: here’s a hand to which you have vowed much love
Duchess: I long to bleed. It is some mercy when men kill with speed
Eunice: men are callous things with no feelings
Stanley: oh you want some rough house! All right,let’s have some rough house
Duchess: it is some mercŷ when men kill with speed
Cardinal: you cannot make me cuckhold
Stanley: since when do you give me orders?
Ferdinand: when I have her hew’d to pieces
[He crosses…and seizes the paper lantern, tearing it off the lightbulb ]
Duchess: tis flesh and blood sir/ tis not a figure cut in alabaster”
Monosyllables Rhythmic Says she’s alive not made of plaster Towards Antonio Prolepsis go grave alabaster is Metaphor fir monument built at death
….
Duchess “I forgive you”
Allusions to Christ.
Tragic protagonist convention
Anna ou
Bosola: these tears I’m very certain never grew in my mothers milk”
Mitch: you! you done all this, all your god damn interfering
Stanley: gaudy seed bears. animal joy is implicit in his being
Opposite of delicate and ethereal Blanche.
Semantic field of aggression: ‘rip up his flesh’ ‘howl’d fearfully’ ‘i will throttle it’
Mitch [fumbling to embrace her] what i been missing all summer
Ferdinand: Damn that body of hers
Blanche: I took the blows to my face and my body
Duchess. I can do both like a p ince
