Random Quotes Flashcards
Stanley on dominance over Mitch in final scene
“hold this boneheaded cry baby”
Stanley not apologizing for hitting Stella but instead saying…
“i want my girl to come down with me”
Blanche on how sex helped her cope with being lonely
“intimacies with strangers was all i seemed able to fill my empty heart with”
Stella and Blanche on Stanley being a different class to them
S: “there were things i had to adjust myself to later”
B: “such as his civilian background”
the cardinal making sure julia can never tell his secret
“I have bound you to it by death”
Julia on how the cardinal originally wooed her
“you told me of a piteous wound i’ th’ heart”
Ferdinand on his lack of remourse for the deaths of the children
“the deaths of young wolves is never to be pitied”
Ferdinand’s final line on how sins will result in death
“whether we fall by ambition, blood or lust / like diamonds we are cut with our own dust”
Julia on her sexuality being good and promiscuous
“this nice modesty in ladies is but a troublesome familiar that haunts them”
Duchess on how religion affects her need for remarriage
“why must i be cased up like a holy relic?”
Duchess on not fearing death as she will be with her family
“who would be afraid on’t, knowing to meet such excellent company in the other world”
what phrases are used to describe Blanche?
“Dame Blanche”
“sister Blanche is no lily”
what phrases are used to describe Duchess?
“farewell lust widow”
“excellent hyena”
example of Bosola being a sychophant
“For the good deed you have done me, I must do
All the ill man can invent!”
the stage directions that foreshadow blanches life and why do they?
“a prostitute has rolled a drunkard…there is a struggle” “the negro woman..with a sequined bag the prostitute dropped..shes rooting through it excitedly”
Blanche’s life in belle reve, her struggle with Stanley, the modern world taking what she has
