Masuclinity Flashcards
“When your swindled under the napoleonic code I’m swindled too”
-napoleonic code states that all that belongs to the wife belongs to the husband
-Stanley sees Stella as his possession.
“I’ve never met a women who didn’t know they were good looking with out being told and some give themselves credit for more than what they got.”
-degrading and mysogonistic ideology
“Raw colours…yellow linoleum…vivid green glass shade…men at the peak of their physical manhood, as coarse and direct and powerful as the primary colours”
-plastic theatre: the bright colours bring tension.
-colour of Stanley’s shirt shows the domineering and overpowering nature of his masculinity.
“Stanley gives a loud whack of his hand on her thigh”
-“loud whack”- connotes violence despite being in an affectionate context
-sexually driven
“Huey long said every man’s a king and I’m the king round here”
-Huey king is an American politician who had the belief that women were to be owned by their husbands
-reflects Stanley’s patriarchal views
“Silk pyjamas I wore on my wedding night”
-silk connotes sexuality, the pyjamas could connote his overpowering sexuality
