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
