Stanley

Question 1

scene 1

Answer 1

1) ‘heaves red stained package’
2) ‘A master Seargent’ - hypnotized by graciousness and superiority
3) ‘the power and pride of a richly feathered male bird’

Question 2

‘heaves red stained package’

Answer 2

• meat = emblem of relationship, ‘heaves’ = forceful bellicose sexual nature

Question 3

‘A master Seargent’

Answer 3

• hypnotized by graciousness and superiority

Question 4

‘the power and pride of a richly feathered male bird’

Answer 4

• dominance and arrogance, unexplainable intent to harm

Question 5

scene 2

Answer 5

1) ‘Leaving the door open blue piano’ -
2) ‘Napoleonic code’
3) ‘The kowalskis and the Dubois ‘ - separating divide
4) ‘yeah’ ‘how’ ‘so’ - monosyllabic, animalistic

Question 6

‘Leaving the door open blue piano’

Answer 6

allowing authenticity of New Orleans into home, Blanche has invaded

Question 7

‘Napoleonic code’

Answer 7

• degrading, any opportunity to seem superior
• up until scene III audience only presented with one exceptionally obnoxious character - Blanche because of her overt anachronism
• by having Stanley refer to old fashioned = relates them

Question 8

‘The kowalskis and the Dubois ‘

Answer 8

separating divide

Question 9

‘yeah’ ‘how’ ‘so’

Answer 9

monosyllabic, animalistic

Question 10

scene 3

Answer 10

‘STELLAHHHH’ - wounded beast calling for return of its mate - Dionysian disruption ‘humbly’ - ‘heaven splitting violence’ - rapid change acts on

Question 11

STELLAHHHH’

Answer 11

• wounded beast calling for return of its mate
• Dionysian disruption ‘humbly’ - ‘heaven splitting violence’
• rapid change acts on instinct
• link to ‘gaudy’ all his senses represent animal

Question 12

scene 4

Answer 12

1) ‘Gaudy pyjamas’

Question 13

‘Gaudy pyjamas’

Answer 13

links to ‘strong bold colours’ - unapologetically loud and obnoxious

Question 14

scene 8

Answer 14

1) ‘Stanley tell us a joke’
2) ‘parrot stories’
3) ‘he hurls a plate, cups and saucers’
5) ‘ Huey Long’
6) ‘I am not a polack’
7) ‘ I pulled you down off them columns- hero - reflection of passionate chemistry- ironic judges Blanche for relying on past but he

Question 15

‘Stanley tell us a joke’

Answer 15

• views him as the clown

Question 16

parrot stories

Answer 16

• reduces him from ‘cockerel’ to domesticated bird, presence has threatened his position

Question 17

‘he hurls a plate, cups and saucers’

Answer 17

• typically associate domestic items with women, lack of respect for women

Question 18

’ Huey Long’

Answer 18

• governor of Louisiana, trying to push away uneducated polack

Question 19

’ I pulled you down off them columns

Answer 19

• hero
• reflection of passionate chemistry
• ironic judges Blanche for relying on past but he is

Question 20

scene 9

Answer 20

1) ‘hunting for some protection’

Question 21

hunting for some protection’

Answer 21

• difference in men and women = Stanley hunts for sex and passion

Question 22

scene 10

Answer 22

1) ‘lurid reflections appear on the walls around Blanche’
2) ‘brilliant silk pyjamas’
3) ‘grinning’ ‘soft

Question 23

‘lurid reflections appear on the walls around Blanche’

Answer 23

• mimic wide array of Blanche’s fantasies
• on the ‘wall’ everyone can see
• Stanley exposed this= huey long - male dominance

Question 24

‘brilliant silk pyjamas’

Answer 24

• associate pure wondrous event of wedding with rape

Question 25

‘grinning’ ‘soft’

Answer 25

other stage directions = aggressive, when he’s calm is when he can assert dominance over women

Question 26

‘polack’

Answer 26

‘a chinese philosophy she’s- cultivated’

HYPHEN

Question 27

asks Blanche and Stella ‘what they think they are’ links to ‘hens’ grouping altogether

Answer 27

replies with a ‘a pair of queens’ - hypophora - immediately answers so that no one can rebute him
link to ‘every man is king’ - women = always grouped but man is individualised