Scene 3 Flashcards

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‘They are men at the peak of their physical manhood, as coarse and direct and powerful as the primary colours’

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The bedroom is relatively dim

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Cozy atmosphere, or there are hidden aspects that haven’t been revealed

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Stanley (tosses some watermelon rinds to the floor)

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Lack of respect to the environment that he is in. Verb: tosses

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‘We’ll fix you sugar tit’ (Stanley to Mitch)

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Implying that Mitch is a mother’s boy, a lot more softer than the men who surround him

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‘You are fresh as a daisy’—‘one that’s been picked a few days ago’

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Blanche: ‘Please don’t get up’

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Chivalry, a remark of superiority. The mannerisms of the men from her aristocratic life

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(Stanley gives a loud whack of his hand on her thigh)

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8
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Blanche: ‘I think i will bathe’—‘ Again’ Stella

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9
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(She takes off the blouse and stands in her pink silk brassiere and white skirt through the portieres’

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In the context of the play, the men would’ve been able to visualise her, sexual tension

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Stanley: ‘He was looking through them drapes’

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A clear reference to seeing the frame of Blanche, allure of sexual attraction that lingers in the atmosphere

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11
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(She has slipped on the dark red stain wrapper)

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Sexual, lustful desire

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12
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‘Sick people have such deep, sincere attachments’

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13
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‘I can’t stand a naked light’

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The truth will come out otherwise

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14
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‘She’s very run down’

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This is not the truth, Blanche came on her on accord

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15
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Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe

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Ill fainted romances

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16
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Stanley charges after Stella

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