Streetcar quotes

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Flashcards on Streetcar quotes, created by Sarah Ali on 02/05/2018.
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Flashcards by Sarah Ali , updated more than 1 year ago
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'New streets in New Orleans which is called Elysian Fields' 'They told me to take streetcar named desire then transfer to one called cemeteries.' -Greek mythology this was where greek heroes were buried. -Journeying into death
'The section is poor but unlike corresponding sections in other American cities it has a raffish charm.' Raffish= unconventional and strange, New Orleans was different from other American cities because of his multiculturalism.
'The sky which is tender blue invests the scene with a kind of lyricism gracefully attenuates the atmosphere of decay.' .
'Blue piano expresses the life that goes on here.' .
'He heaves the meat package at her' Which she catches 'mildly' Power relationship, meat= raw sexual desire sexual ownership.
'Incongruous to the setting she is daintily dressed' -Adjective 'incongruous, shows how she does not fit into this environment.
'There's something about her uncertain manner that suggests a moth.' Her comparison to a moth also implies that she is fated for destruction since moths are attracted to the light which is that cause of their death.
'Blanche springs up and runs to her with a wild cry, she begins to speak with feverish vivacity, they catch each other in a spasmodic embrace.' Feverish= having a fever, disease and illness reflection of blanche's mental state.
'Don't worry your sister hasn't turned into a drunkard she's just all shaken up.' 'Only Edgar Allan poe- could do it justice Out there is the ghoul - haunted woodland of Weir.' Deception- attempting to preserve her reputation. Reference to a poem by Poe called Ulalume, in which he haunts through to woodlands of weir and finds his lovers vault, comparing the house to a grave.
'I I I took the blows in my face and my body, the long parade to the graveyard, funerals are pretty compared to deaths. Grim Reaper had put his tent at our doorstep.' Death imagery evoked.
'Animal joy is implicit in his movement, power and pride of a richly feathered male bird among hens.' S
'Lordly composure' God like, authoritative.
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'Napoleonic code.' -Law that stated all of the wifes posessions went to her husband.
'Crosses the drapes with a smouldering look.' .
she sprays herself with the atmoizer then playfully sprays him too,’ -Spirited nature.
'Picture of Van gogh's billiard parlour at night Painting displays ideas abut alcoholism, various colours convey the different problems faced by the characters.
'Kitchen suggests a lurid nocturnal brilliance.' The artificially lurid, vivid kitchen in the middle of the night is somewhat sinister and hell-like. The card-playing and drinking amplifies the men’s animal natures.
'Solid blue, a purple a red' Primary colours reflects the primitive nature of these men.
'loud whack on her thigh' (sharply) 'That's not fun stanley. .
'She's somewhat older than I just slightly less than a year.' Deception- desire for youth, diffident as a result of her age.
'I cant stand a naked light bulb anymore than I cn a rude remark. Distaste for the light.
'He advances and disappears, there is the sound of a blow , there is grappling and cursing something is overturned with a crash.' .
'Throws his head like a baying hound,with heaven splitting voice Stell-Laaaaah' .
'They come together with low animal moans.' .
'He bears her into the dark flat.' -Return to the dark flat has association with danger and jeopardy,
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