Mental Health Flashcards
“Clutching her purse”
-verbs show Blanche is nervous and on the edge
“One tiny little nip more,sort of to put the stopper on,so to speak…then put the bottle away so I won’t be tempted”
-punctuations shows eratic behaviour
“You were married once(Music of the polka music rises up)”
-polka music represents how Blanche is haunted by her past
-plastic theatre-represents her husband and trauma
“I’m fading now”
-could reference her beauty and her fading Belle or her fading mental stability
“She became a town character”
-euphemism for her mental health issues
“She had an experience-that killed her illusions!”
-illusions is a euphemism for her mental stability
-the death of her husband caused her trauma that killed her mental stability
“The music is in her mind; she is drinking to escape it.”
-the music playing in blanches mind represents the loss of her stability as she drinks to attempt to escape her trauma and pass
“Blanche speaks with sudden hysteria”
-Stanley’s voice reminds her of her rape and so goes into a state of hysteria.
“I’m going to a die on the sea…I shall die of eating an unwashed grape”
-dramatic delusional monologue expresses blanches lack of sanity.
-fantastical/hyperbolic
“The matron is a peculiarly sinister figure in her severe dress”
-sibilance if sinister, severe and dress portrays matron as sinister
-matron is the archetype for mental institutions that Williams had such bad experiences with and opinions of (his sister)
“That suggest a moth”
-simile of Blanche as moth suggests her fragility and possibly reference to her mental state
“I’m not sure I got all the soap out”
-metaphor for Blanche trying to wash away the act of rape but can’t get rid of the memory
