Quotes Flashcards
Quote aboute Antonio and ontological mobility
‘raise yourself,/ Or if you please, my hand to help you’
Cardinal and blood quantum
‘Shall our blood, the royal blood of Aragon and Castile, be thus attainted?’
Blanche on Stanley’s class/ racial background
‘Polack’
‘grunts’
‘don’t hang back with the brutes!’
‘subhuman’
Duchess on unity and love of her marriage to Antonio
‘When were we so merry?’
Cardinal to Julia demonstrating power dynamic
‘you are to thank me’
Blanche as a perpetrator and victim
‘hunting for some protection’
Blanche on her vulnerability and position in society
‘soft’
‘make a little, temporary magic’
‘put on soft colours’
Blanche on why she wants Mitch
‘I want to rest’
Duchess and calmness in death, faith in heaven
‘Pull and pull strongly, for your able strength must pull down heaven upon me’
Duchess’ calmness in death
‘Come violent death, serve for mangora, to make me sleep’
Cariola as animalistic, base survival instinct (hasn’t got that same integrity of life Duchess has)
‘she bites and scratches!’
Cariola is not as holy as she seems maybe
‘If you kill me now I am damned! I have not been at confession this two years’
Julia being an active woman reversing gender roles and having arete
‘if I see, and steal a diamong, the fault is not in the stone, but in me the thief’
Blanche losing her humanity and becoming animalistic
‘Blanche turns wildly and scratches at the Matron’
Blanche’s illusion is created by the Doctor, and she clings to it
‘Miss DuBois’
‘holding tight to his arm’
Blanche’s tragedy, highlighting brutal society
‘I have always depended on the kindness of strangers’
Stanley linking illusion and survival
‘to hold front position in this rat race you have to believe you are lucky’
Stanley success at very end of play
‘unbuttoning her blouse’
Eunice’s advice to Stella on Blanche’s rape
‘You did the only thing you could do.’
‘Don’t ever believe it… No matter what happens, you’ve got to keep on going.’
Ferdinand and symbol of familial and male sexual violence against women
‘My father’s poniard’
‘rusty’
Star signs and violence against women
‘Mars… doth threaten a violent death’
Duchess’ unconventional marriage to Antonio
‘she puts the ring upon his finger’
