Paper 2 Quotes

Question 1

DOAS - Jungle

Answer 1

“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”

Question 2

DOAS - popularity

Answer 2

“He’s liked but not well liked”

Question 3

DOAS - seeds

Answer 3

“I don’t have a thing in the ground”

Question 4

DOAS - exhaustion

Answer 4

“I’m tired to death”

Question 5

DOAS - stockings

Answer 5

“You gave her Mama’s stockings!”

Question 6

DOAS - materialism

Answer 6

“Work a lifetime to pay off a house. You finally own it, and there’s nobody to live in it”

Question 7

DOAS - worth

Answer 7

“After all the highways, and the trains, and the appointments, and the years, you end up worth more dead than alive”

Question 8

DOAS - yard

Answer 8

“Gotta break your neck to see a star in this yard”

Question 9

DOAS - Conflict with Biff

Answer 9

“Will you let me go, for Christ’s sake? Will you take that phony dream and burn it before something happens?”

Question 10

DOAS - description of Willy

Answer 10

“Passed 60 years of age… dressed quietly”

Question 11

DOAS - Biff realization

Answer 11

“I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been”

Question 12

DOAS - Miller on ‘flashbacks’

Answer 12

“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”

Question 13

DOAS - summary

Answer 13

“He had the wrong dream. All, all wrong”

Question 14

TG - Brechtian theatre

Answer 14

“We’re not meant to sit comfortably and predict what’s happening”

Question 15

TG - Churchill on Art

Answer 15

“Art is not a mirror with which to reflect reality, but a hammer with which to shape it”

Question 16

TG - Angie

Answer 16

“I put on this dress to kill my mother”

Question 17

TG - Gret

Answer 17

“Oh, we gave them devils such a beating”

Question 18

TG - Pope Joan

Answer 18

“I thought God would speak to me directly. But of course he knew I was a woman”

Question 19

TG - Nijo

Answer 19

“And I hit him with a stick. Yes, I hit him with a stick”

Question 20

TG - Marlene

Answer 20

“Don’t you get angry? I get angry.”

Question 21

TG - Isabella

Answer 21

“I cannot and will not live the life of a lady… why should I? Why should I?”

Question 22

ASND - Varsouviana

Answer 22

“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”

Question 23

ASND - shadows

Answer 23

“Lurid reflections appear on the walls around Blanche”

Question 24

ASND - minor characters

Answer 24

“Flores, flores para los muretos”

“Red Hots! Red Hots!”

Question 25

ASND - light

Answer 25

“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”

Question 26

ASND - paper lantern

Answer 26

“I bought this adorable little colored paper lantern… put it over the light bulb!”

Question 27

ASND - Alcoholism

Answer 27

“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?”

Question 28

ASND - Blanche’s costume

Answer 28

“daintily dressed in a white suit with a fluffy bodice”

“incongruous with the setting”

“suggestive of a moth”

Question 29

ASND - the mens’ costumes

Answer 29

“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”

Question 30

ASND - Stanley imagery

Answer 30

“… with the power and pride of a richly feathered male bird among hens”

Question 31

ASND - magic

Answer 31

“I don’t want realism. I want magic!”

Question 32

ASND - funerals

Answer 32

“funerals are pretty compared to deaths”

Question 33

ASND - Williams’ characters

Answer 33

“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”