Paper 2 Quotes Flashcards
DOAS - Jungle
“The jungle is dark but full of diamonds”
“Walked into a jungle, and comes out, the age of 21, and he’s rich”
Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You’ll never get out of the jungle that way”
DOAS - popularity
“He’s liked but not well liked”
DOAS - seeds
“I don’t have a thing in the ground”
DOAS - exhaustion
“I’m tired to death”
DOAS - stockings
“You gave her Mama’s stockings!”
DOAS - materialism
“Work a lifetime to pay off a house. You finally own it, and there’s nobody to live in it”
DOAS - worth
“After all the highways, and the trains, and the appointments, and the years, you end up worth more dead than alive”
DOAS - yard
“Gotta break your neck to see a star in this yard”
DOAS - Conflict with Biff
“Will you let me go, for Christ’s sake? Will you take that phony dream and burn it before something happens?”
DOAS - description of Willy
“Passed 60 years of age… dressed quietly”
DOAS - Biff realization
“I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been”
DOAS - Miller on ‘flashbacks’
“There are no flashbacks in this play but only a mobile concurrency of past and present… because in his desperation to justify his life Willy Loman has destroyed the boundaries between now and then”
DOAS - summary
“He had the wrong dream. All, all wrong”
TG - Brechtian theatre
“We’re not meant to sit comfortably and predict what’s happening”
TG - Churchill on Art
“Art is not a mirror with which to reflect reality, but a hammer with which to shape it”
TG - Angie
“I put on this dress to kill my mother”
TG - Gret
“Oh, we gave them devils such a beating”
TG - Pope Joan
“I thought God would speak to me directly. But of course he knew I was a woman”
TG - Nijo
“And I hit him with a stick. Yes, I hit him with a stick”
TG - Marlene
“Don’t you get angry? I get angry.”
TG - Isabella
“I cannot and will not live the life of a lady… why should I? Why should I?”
ASND - Varsouviana
“Polka music sounds, in a minor key faint with distance”
“the rapid, feverish polka tune, the varsouviana is heard; she is drinking to escape the disaster closing in on her”
“the varsouviana is filtered into a weird distortion, accompanied by the cries and noises of the jungle”
ASND - shadows
“Lurid reflections appear on the walls around Blanche”
ASND - minor characters
“Flores, flores para los muretos”
“Red Hots! Red Hots!”
ASND - light
“Turn that over-light off! I won’t be looked at in this merciless glare!”
“I can’t stand a naked lightbulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action”
ASND - paper lantern
“I bought this adorable little colored paper lantern… put it over the light bulb!”
ASND - Alcoholism
“she carefully replaces the bottle and washes out the tumbler at the sink”
“…you must have some liquor in the place! where could it be?”
ASND - Blanche’s costume
“daintily dressed in a white suit with a fluffy bodice”
“incongruous with the setting”
“suggestive of a moth”
ASND - the mens’ costumes
“the poker players where colored shirts, solid blue, a purple, a red-and-white check, a light green, and they are men at the peak of their physical manhood, as course and direct and powerful as the primary colors”
ASND - Stanley imagery
“… with the power and pride of a richly feathered male bird among hens”
ASND - magic
“I don’t want realism. I want magic!”
ASND - funerals
“funerals are pretty compared to deaths”
ASND - Williams’ characters
“I draw every character out of my very multiple split personality. My heroines always express the climate of my interior world at the time in which those characters were created”
