TOXIC MASCULINITY Flashcards
William on Toxic Masculinity
“Since earliest manhood the center of his life has been pleasure with woman,”
“There are things that happen between man and a woman in the dark”, which makes “everything else seem unimportant”
ALLUSION FOR SEX: Stella normalizes, and even to some degree, romanticizes this masculinity which is driven by sexuality - HEGEMONIC
“Peak of their manhood, as coarse and direct and powerful as primary colours”
SCENE 3: ANAPHORA, TRIPLET, SIMILE
“Competition, aggressiveness and finally domination are the rules.”
TRIPLET - leading characteristics of a 40s man
“I’d have that in my conscience for the rest of my life if I knew all that stuff and let my best friend get caught!”
Fake sympathy, hes even worse. Exclamative, proleptic irony
“Stanley […] speaks with his fork into the remaining chop which he eats with his fingers.”
STAGE DIRECTION, ANIMALISTIC IMAGERY
Presented as primative
“Stanley gives a loud whack on her thigh”
SCENE 3: ONOMATEOPOEIA
Objectification, FTA - demonstrate the power dynamic around his friends
“The jig was all up! “Pulling the wool over your eyes!”
IDIOM
Hypocritical when he is just as sexually immoral as she is
Proleptic irony - Blanche in sex work to “fill her empty heart” following Allan’s death
“Sister Blanche is no lily! Ha ha! Some Lily she is!”
EXCLAMATIVE, SARCASM, IRONIC
Hypocritical when he is just as sexually immoral as she is
“It’s going to be sweet when we can make noise in the night the way we used to and get the colored lights going”
EUPHEMISM FOR SEX, Colored lights forebode Blanche’s rape as Stanley calls that night a “red-letter night”
“You hens cut out that conversation in here.”
COMMAND, EPITHET
“Richly feathered male bird among hens”
STAGE DIRECTIONS
THE NIGHT CAFE IN THE KITCHEN, VAN GOGH “Lurid nocturnal brilliance”
PRIMARY COLOUR IMAGERY, CORRELATES TO STANLEY. PROLEPTIC IRONY
“Hey, canary bird! Toots! Get OUT of the BATHROOM!”
EXCLAMATIVE, EPITHET, FTA
“The rape is his final act in destroying her”
ELIZA KAZAN
