Streetcar And Malfi Thematic Quotes

Question 1

Society and class (malfi)
Bosola act 1 scene 1

Answer 1

“Place and riches are oft bribes of shame”

Question 2

Society and class (malfi)
Cariola act 1 scene 1
trade

Answer 2

“Trade in poison”

Question 3

Society and class (malfi)
Ferdinand act 1 scene 1
young widow

Answer 3

“She’s a young widow, I would not let her marry again”

Question 4

Society and class (malfi)
Antonio act 1 scene 1
common fountain

Answer 4

“A princes court is like a common fountain, whence should flow pure silver drops in general ; but if’t chance some cursed poison’t near the head, death and diseased through the whole land spread”
metaphor for the court

Question 5

Society and class (malfi)
Delio act 1 scene 1
black cobweb

Answer 5

“Then the law to him is like a foul black cobweb to a spider: he makes it his dwelling, and a prison to entangle those shall feed him”
simile - Ferdinands curving of the law

Question 6

Society and class (malfi)
Bosola act 1 scene 1
hospital

Answer 6

“Places in a court are like beds in a hospital, where this man’s head lies at that man’s foot, and so lower, and lower”

Question 7

Society and class (streetcar)
Blanche, Stella scene 4
cleaning up

Answer 7

Blanche - “Stop it. Let go of that broom. I won’t have you cleaning up after him”
Stella - “Then who’s going to do it? Are you ?”
Blanche -
Stella - “No, I didn’t think so”
blanches superiority

Question 8

Society and class (streetcar)
Stanley scene 8
Eunice scene 1
columns

Answer 8

“You showed me a snapshot of the place with the columns and how you loved it”
“A great big place with white columns”

Question 9

Society and class (streetcar)
Blanche, Stanley scene 3
get up

Answer 9

Blanche - “Please don’t get up”
Stanley - “Nobody’s going to get up, so don’t be worried”

Question 10

Society and class (streetcar)
Stage directions scene 1
her appearance

Answer 10

“Her appearance is incongruous to the setting. She is daintily dressed in a white suit with a fluffy bodice … white gloves and hat, looking as if she were arriving at a summer tea or cocktail party in the garden district”

Question 11

Society and class (streetcar)
Blanche act 1
letting the place go

Answer 11

“I let the place go? Where were you! In bed with your - Polack!”

Question 12

Society and class (streetcar)
Stanley scene 8
pair of queens

Answer 12

“Don’t ever talk to me that way! ‘Pig - Polack - disgusting - vulgar - greasy!’ - them kind of words have been on your tongue and your sisters too much around here! What do you two think you are? A pair of queens!”

Question 13

Sexuality (streetcar)
Stella scene 4
things that happen in the dark

Answer 13

“There are things that happen between a man and a woman in the dark—that sort of make everything else seem—unimportant.”

Question 14

Sexuality (streetcar)
Stanley scene 8
make noise

Answer 14

“God, honey, it’s gonna be sweet when we can make noise in the night the way that we used to”

Question 15

Sexuality (streetcar)
Blanche scene 5
sweet lamb

Answer 15

“Well you do, honey lamb! Come here. I want to kiss you, just once, softly and sweetly on your mouth!”

Question 16

Sexuality (streetcar)
Blanche scene 5
goodnight kiss

Answer 16

“He hasn’t got a thing but a goodnight kiss”

Question 17

Sexuality (streetcar)
Blanche scene 5
brutal desire

Answer 17

“What you are talking about is brutal desire – just – Desire! – the name of that rattle-trap street-car that bans through the Quarter, up one old narrow street and down another”

Question 18

Sexuality (streetcar)
Stanley scene 10
interfere

Answer 18

“Come to think of it—maybe you wouldn’t be bad to—interfere with.”

Question 19

Sexuality (malfi)
Duchess act 1 scene 3
flesh and blood

Answer 19

“This is flesh and blood, sir, / ‘Tis not a figure cut in alabaster / Kneels at my husband’s tomb”

Question 20

Sexuality (malfi)
Duchess act 1 scene 3
winked

Answer 20

“I winked and chose a husband”

Answer 21

“What cannot a neat knave with a smooth tale make a woman believe? Farewell lusty widow.”