Quotes Flashcards
Meg: he’s my Stanley now. And I think he’s
A good boy, although sometimes he’s bad
Perry’s final advice to Stanley
Stan, don’t let them tell you what to do
Stanley not being able to speak at the end recalls what Shakespearean tragedy
Titus andronicus
Lavinia who’s tongue is cut out
Important term for speech discourse points that lack sense
Non-sequitur
What makes you think you
Existence
Goldberg to Webber
Multiple names if Goldberg
Simey Nat Goldberg
Appearance of stage screenshot
Tableau
Never forget to mention the cos it’s a play
Audience
General contexts
Post war austerity
Respectability
Class
Gender and power
Similarity between act 1 and 3
They start the same way as if nothing ever happened
… called an
And mean a
Ellipsis = something left unsaid
McCann I’m not going up there again recalls what
After Macbeth has murdered the King his wife tells to go back and he says look upon it I dare not
Pinter pause
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Different to ellipsis
Because I believe that the world
Because I believe that the world
Because I believe that the world
Bcos I believe that the world tricolon what philosophy
Nihilism
When Stanley finally re emerges in act 3 how’s he dressed
Dark well cut suit
Clean-shaven
Like an embalmed body
Meg ends okay saying she was belle of the ball and confirms
Oh, it’s true. I was.
Pause
I know I was
Different spaces
Public vs private
Two gentleman sharing
Old phrase for gay men
What does Petey say when meg asks about whose she reading abt
I don’t think you’d know her
Lady Mary splatt
When a tanley first enters he is
Unshaven in his pyjama jacket and wears glasses
Meg on making Stanley eat cornflakes
Now you eat up those cornflakes like a good boy
Well, I can see to have to go down to one of those smart hotels on the front
Meg response
(Rising quickly) you won’t get a better breakfast there than her
How’d u like to go away with me where
Nowhere. Still we could go
Banging the drum, his face and ???? Where is this
End of act 1
His face and the drumbeat now savage and possessed
The sun falling
Behind the dog stadium. Ah!
Bathos
Childhood. Hot water bottles. Hot milk.
Pancakes. Soap suds. What a life.
Goldberg act 2
What are u but
A corpse waiting to be washed
First lyrics of McCans song at the party act 2
Oh the garden of Eden has vanished they say
Farse comedy meaning
Comedy of disguise concealment and sexual intrigue lots of exits and entrances
What game do they play
Blind mans buff
because i believe that the world
Because I believe that the world…(Vacant)…
Because I believe that the world…(Desperate)…
BECAUSE I BELIEVE THAT THE WORLD…(Lost)…
