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!”
