street car/ malfi Flashcards
elysian fields
afyter life of heroes in greek mythology
“street car named Desire” and “transfer” to area called “Cemeteries” get off at “Elysian Fields”
come violent death
pull and pull strongly
tis not your whore’s milk that will quench my wild fire, but your whore’s blood
i couldnt belive her story and go on living with stanley
die then, quickly
charges at stella
i have always depended on the kindess of strangers
you’re not clean enough to bring in the house with my mother
white clothes, that suggests a moth
english mastiffs
dog
i am duchess of malfi still
she make religion her riding hood - cardinal
The royal blood of Aragon and Castile, / Be thus attainted?
make not your heart a dead piece of flesh
raise yourself
“Voulez vous coucher avec moi?
wax figuers
given a dead mans hand
they strangle her
‘Why should only I / Of all the other princes of the world / Be cased up like a holy relic?
i dont want realism, i want magic
I don’t think I ever seen you in the light.
paper lantern
Varsouviana is the polka tune
duchess is a widow. doesnt go through a mental decline
allan grey
young husband Blanche loved dearly was the event that triggered her mental decline. Since then, Blanche hears the Varsouviana whenever she panics and loses her grip on
Miserable age, where only the reward/ of doing well is the doing of it - bosola
look like a young prince out of the Arabian Nights?’.
“huey long”
“every man is a king”
“pair of queens”
“pig, polack, disgusting, vulgar, greasy”
Huey Pierce Long Jr., byname “The Kingfish”, was an American politician who served as the 40th governor of Louisiana from 1928 to 1932
sister blanche is no lily
you have shook hands with reputation and made him invisible
“hotel flamingo”
“tarantula arms” “that’s where I brought all my vicitms”
After the death of Allan, intimacies with strangers was all I seemed able to fill my empty heart with
It is a second rate hotel in which she lived and practiced prostitution.
Bore my fist upon you and showed you game’
She pours a half tumbler of whiskey and tosses it down.
polack
stanley kowalski, surivior of the stone age
anything without the addition, honour”sway your high blood
this is my father’s poniard do you see
loth to see it look rusty
the game is seven card stud
indicates that Stanley’s victory is complete.
blanche as been played
mercy
sought to
“appear a true servant than an honest man”
sacred innocence tht sweetly sleeps
madmen, reveals coffin, peace, it affrights not me
- madness doesnt scare or frighten the duchess
This is terrible good council
then marry me mitch
I,I,I took the blows in my face and my body
“Coffins” “funerals” “graveyards”
He was as good as a lamb
I’ll never marry
‘coughing’ and ‘gagging’
blanche cant handle controntation
- response to ticket back to laurel
‘It looks to me like you have been swindled, baby, and when you’re swindled under the Napoleonic code I’m swindled too. And I don’t like to be swindled.’
In order to prove his own victimization, he refers to the Napoleonic code, a code of law recognized in New Orleans from the days of French rule that places women’s property in the hands of their husbands.
At this point, Stanley brings his male dominance into the conversation by mentioning the Napoleonic code:
I pulled you down off them columns and how you loved it, having the colored lights going!
stanley is factory parts worker, former master sergeant in the engineers corps
- similar to the duchess goign out with her poor steward ;)
drop it! weve had this date with each other from the beginning!
dont ever belive it. life has got to go on. no matter what happens, you’ve got to keep going - eunice
