Reality Vs Illusion

Question 1

Blanche wants…

Answer 1

I don’t want realism, I want magic - scene 9, with Mitch

Question 2

Blanche on being alone

Answer 2

“Got to be with somebody, I can’t be alone! Because - as you must have noticed- I’m - not very well” scene 1, with Stella

Question 3

Blanche believing in her own lies

Answer 3

“Never inside, I didn’t lie in my heart” scene 9, with Mitch

Question 4

Stella in the final scene, making a choice

Answer 4

“I couldn’t believe her story and go on living with Stanley” scene 11

Question 5

Blanches insane fantasy of her death in the final scene

Answer 5

“I shall die of eating an unwashed grape one day out on the ocean… I’ll be buried at sea seen up in a clean white sack and dropped overboard…an ocean as blue as my first lovers eyes” scene 11

Question 6

Ferdinand on the Duchess talking in the dark

Answer 6

I come to seal my peace with you. Here is a hand (gives her dead man’s hand)

Question 7

Ferdinand and the wax figures

Answer 7

These presentations are but framed in wax… and she takes them for true substantial bodies

Act 4 scene 1

Question 8

Antonio and the echo and not knowing

Answer 8

My Duchess is asleep now, and her little ones, I hope sweetly. O heaven, Shall I never see her more?

Act 5, scene 3