Quotes Flashcards

1
Q

Meg: he’s my Stanley now. And I think he’s

A

A good boy, although sometimes he’s bad

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2
Q

Perry’s final advice to Stanley

A

Stan, don’t let them tell you what to do

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3
Q

Stanley not being able to speak at the end recalls what Shakespearean tragedy

A

Titus andronicus

Lavinia who’s tongue is cut out

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4
Q

Important term for speech discourse points that lack sense

A

Non-sequitur

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5
Q

What makes you think you

A

Existence

Goldberg to Webber

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6
Q

Multiple names if Goldberg

A

Simey Nat Goldberg

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7
Q

Appearance of stage screenshot

A

Tableau

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8
Q

Never forget to mention the cos it’s a play

A

Audience

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9
Q

General contexts

A

Post war austerity
Respectability
Class
Gender and power

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10
Q

Similarity between act 1 and 3

A

They start the same way as if nothing ever happened

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11
Q

… called an

And mean a

A

Ellipsis = something left unsaid

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12
Q

McCann I’m not going up there again recalls what

A

After Macbeth has murdered the King his wife tells to go back and he says look upon it I dare not

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13
Q

Pinter pause

A

-

Different to ellipsis

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14
Q

Because I believe that the world

Because I believe that the world

A

Because I believe that the world

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15
Q

Bcos I believe that the world tricolon what philosophy

A

Nihilism

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16
Q

When Stanley finally re emerges in act 3 how’s he dressed

A

Dark well cut suit
Clean-shaven
Like an embalmed body

17
Q

Meg ends okay saying she was belle of the ball and confirms

A

Oh, it’s true. I was.

Pause

I know I was

18
Q

Different spaces

A

Public vs private

19
Q

Two gentleman sharing

A

Old phrase for gay men

20
Q

What does Petey say when meg asks about whose she reading abt

A

I don’t think you’d know her

Lady Mary splatt

21
Q

When a tanley first enters he is

A

Unshaven in his pyjama jacket and wears glasses

22
Q

Meg on making Stanley eat cornflakes

A

Now you eat up those cornflakes like a good boy

23
Q

Well, I can see to have to go down to one of those smart hotels on the front

Meg response

A

(Rising quickly) you won’t get a better breakfast there than her

24
Q

How’d u like to go away with me where

A

Nowhere. Still we could go

25
Q

Banging the drum, his face and ???? Where is this

A

End of act 1

His face and the drumbeat now savage and possessed

26
Q

The sun falling

A

Behind the dog stadium. Ah!

Bathos

27
Q

Childhood. Hot water bottles. Hot milk.

A

Pancakes. Soap suds. What a life.

28
Q

Goldberg act 2

What are u but

A

A corpse waiting to be washed

29
Q

First lyrics of McCans song at the party act 2

A

Oh the garden of Eden has vanished they say

30
Q

Farse comedy meaning

A

Comedy of disguise concealment and sexual intrigue lots of exits and entrances

31
Q

What game do they play

A

Blind mans buff

32
Q

because i believe that the world

A

Because I believe that the world…(Vacant)…
Because I believe that the world…(Desperate)…
BECAUSE I BELIEVE THAT THE WORLD…(Lost)…