Streetcar Themed Quotes Flashcards
Blanche says in scene 1 that adds to the fantasy/ illusion
“ I can’t be alone! Because- as you must have noticed- I’m not very well…”
Blanche scene 2 about a woman’s charm
“ after all, a woman’s charm is 50% illusion.”
What Blanche says about desire to add to the fantasy in scene 4
“ it brought me here- where I’m not wanted and ashamed to be”
What does Blanche say in. Scene 5 to the young boy
“ young man! Young, young, young man! Has anyone ever told you that you look like that young prince from Arabian nights?”
The song about moons in scene 7
“ it’s only a paper moon, just as phoney as can be- but it wouldn’t be make believe if you believed in me!”
Candles and aunties scene 8
“ his aunty knows that candles aren’t safe that candles can burn out in little boys and girls’ eyes.”
Blanche doesn’t want… scene 9
“ I don’t want realism! I’ll tell you what I want, magic!”
Blanche’s final scene about the sea
“ I can smell the sea air. The rest of my time I’m going to spend on the sea.”
First line of the play with Stanley s1
“Meat… [he heaves the package at her.]”
Stanley being violent to Stella
“He gives a loud whack of his hand on her thigh”
Stanley Kowalski…
Survivor of the Stone Age!
Capricorn-
The goat!
“I’m ashamed of the way I perspire…
My shirt is sticking to me”
That girl calls me
Common!
But I have been foolish…
Casting my pearls before swine!”
“You…you…you…
Brag… brag… bull… bull!”
“Polacks?”
“Yes a different species.”
“He seizes the atomiser…
And slams it down on the dresser.”
“Hurry back and we’ll fix you a…
Sugar tit!”
“ don’t- don’t hang back with the…
Brutes!”
I’d suddenly said…
I know! I know! You disgust me!”
But sister Blanche is no lily…
Ha ha! Some lily she is.”
Remember what Huey Long said- “every man is a king…”
And I’m the king around here!”
Your not clean enough to bring
Into the house with my mother!”
Tiger tiger! Drop the bottle top! Drop it
We’ve had this date with each other since the beginning
What have I done to my sister?
Oh god, what have I done to my sister?”
I think Blanche didn’t just love him
But worshipped the ground he walked on!
I want my baby down here!
Stella! Stella!
I was- sort of-
Thrilled by it!”
But I wasn’t holding him out
I was slipping in with him!
We can make the noise in the night the way we used to…
And get the coloured lights going!”
The unforgiveable insult to a lady…
But I forgive you!
“[he kneels beside her and his fingers find the opening of her blouse]…
Now, now love.”
The blind
Are leading the blind
You’ve got to be soft and attractive…
And I’m fading now.”
The searchlight which had been turned on the world
Was turned off again.”
But people like you abused her
And forced her to change
The dark
Is comforting to me
[she allows him to lead her
As if she were blind]
