Streetcar And Malfi Thematic Quotes Flashcards
Society and class (malfi)
Bosola act 1 scene 1
“Place and riches are oft bribes of shame”
Society and class (malfi)
Cariola act 1 scene 1
trade
“Trade in poison”
Society and class (malfi)
Ferdinand act 1 scene 1
young widow
“She’s a young widow, I would not let her marry again”
Society and class (malfi)
Antonio act 1 scene 1
common fountain
“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
Society and class (malfi)
Delio act 1 scene 1
black cobweb
“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
Society and class (malfi)
Bosola act 1 scene 1
hospital
“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”
Society and class (streetcar)
Blanche, Stella scene 4
cleaning up
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
Society and class (streetcar)
Stanley scene 8
Eunice scene 1
columns
“You showed me a snapshot of the place with the columns and how you loved it”
“A great big place with white columns”
Society and class (streetcar)
Blanche, Stanley scene 3
get up
Blanche - “Please don’t get up”
Stanley - “Nobody’s going to get up, so don’t be worried”
Society and class (streetcar)
Stage directions scene 1
her appearance
“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”
Society and class (streetcar)
Blanche act 1
letting the place go
“I let the place go? Where were you! In bed with your - Polack!”
Society and class (streetcar)
Stanley scene 8
pair of queens
“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!”
Sexuality (streetcar)
Stella scene 4
things that happen in the dark
“There are things that happen between a man and a woman in the dark—that sort of make everything else seem—unimportant.”
Sexuality (streetcar)
Stanley scene 8
make noise
“God, honey, it’s gonna be sweet when we can make noise in the night the way that we used to”
Sexuality (streetcar)
Blanche scene 5
sweet lamb
“Well you do, honey lamb! Come here. I want to kiss you, just once, softly and sweetly on your mouth!”
Sexuality (streetcar)
Blanche scene 5
goodnight kiss
“He hasn’t got a thing but a goodnight kiss”
Sexuality (streetcar)
Blanche scene 5
brutal desire
“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”
Sexuality (streetcar)
Stanley scene 10
interfere
“Come to think of it—maybe you wouldn’t be bad to—interfere with.”
Sexuality (malfi)
Duchess act 1 scene 3
flesh and blood
“This is flesh and blood, sir, / ‘Tis not a figure cut in alabaster / Kneels at my husband’s tomb”
Sexuality (malfi)
Duchess act 1 scene 3
winked
“I winked and chose a husband”
“What cannot a neat knave with a smooth tale make a woman believe? Farewell lusty widow.”
