Society And Class

Question 1

Blanches appearance

Answer 1

“Her appearance is incongruous to the setting…as if she were arriving at a summer tea or cocktail party in the garden district” - scene 1, stage directions

Question 2

Blanche on the loss of belle Reve

Answer 2

“…I let the place go? Where were you! In bed with your - polack!” Scene 1

Question 3

Stanley and Blanche contrast at poker

Answer 3

B: “please don’t get up”
S: “nobody’s going to get up, so don’t be worried”

Scene 3

Question 4

Stanley’s response to blanches name calling

Answer 4

“What do you think you two are? A pair of queens?….”every man is a king” and I’m thing king around here so don’t you forget it!” Scene 8

Question 5

The duchess and Bosola talking about mixing the social classes (grafting)

Answer 5

Bosola: ‘Tis a pretty art, this grafting.

Duchess: ‘Tis so: a bett’ring of nature.

Act 2

Question 6

Antonio to Bosola after getting married, getting a bit big for his boots

Answer 6

Saucy slave I’ll pull thee up by the roots! (2.3

Question 7

Delio realising Antonio’s gotten too big for his boots

Answer 7

How fearfully

Shows his ambition now […] (2.4

Question 8

Ferdinand on the type of people he suggests the Duchess is with

Answer 8

Happily with some strong thigh’d Bargeman, or one o’ th’ woodyard that can quoit the sledge

Question 9

ferdinand to the courtiers in act 1

Answer 9

“take fire when i give fire, that is laugh when i laugh”

Question 10

Duchess on the appearance of value

Answer 10

Our value never can be truly known,

Till in the fisher’s basket we be shown: