Themes Flashcards
Find 4 quotes for the theme: the position of women
“I saw him at his best!… But the only way to live with such a man is to sleep with him! And that’s your job”
“You’re not clean enough to bring into the house with my mother”
“Men don’t - don’t even admit your existence unless they re making love to you”
“I think it was panic, just panic that drove me from one to another, hunting for some protection”
Find two quotes for the theme of madness
“The distant piano goes into a hectic breakdown”
“Her throat is tightening with hysteria/… Fire! Fire! Fire!”
Find 2 quotes for the theme: dream vs reality
“I don’t want realism… I want magic”
“Stell, it’s gonna be alright after she’s gone and you’ve had the baby. It’s gonna be alright again between me and you the way it always was”
Find 3 quotes to which highlight the theme of masculinity
“Remember what Huey along said, every mans a King! And I’m the king around here!”
“Reaches way over the table and spears his fork into the remaining chop”
“Powerful as the primary colours”
Find two quotes for the theme of uncontrollable desire
“Our improvident grand fathers and father and uncles and brother exchanged the land for their epic fornications”
“What you’re talking about is brutal desire - just desire!”
