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Mind Map by Sofia Henderson, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Sofia Henderson
almost 8 years ago
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Streetcar key quotes
- Scenes 8-11
- Scene
Eight
- p.76: 'fading gradually into a
still-golden dusk', 'A torch of
sunlight blazes', 'pierced by
pin-points of lighted windows'
- Juxtaposition between SFs of
softness - 'fading', 'golden' and
violence - 'torch', 'blazes', 'pierced'
- Emphasises the fact the play is heading
towards tragedy - still trying to hang
onto 'still-golden dusk' with birthday
cake, but light is 'fading' like Blanche's
youth
- Juxtaposition between SFs of
softness - 'fading', 'golden' and
violence - 'torch', 'blazes', 'pierced'
- p.76: 'Remember what Huey Long said -
'Every man is a King!''
- Out of context - Huey Long, a left-wing US
politician and campaigner for equality, was
making point that not every man is equal
during the 1930s Depression
- Suggests Stanley's unintelligence (use of
humour), or could be example of him
manipulating situation to his own advantage
- Out of context - Huey Long, a left-wing US
politician and campaigner for equality, was
making point that not every man is equal
during the 1930s Depression
- p.78-9: 'It's gonna be alright after she goes', 'It's gonna be
alright again between you and me the way it always
was', 'it's gonna be so sweet when we can... get the
coloured lights going'
- Stella does not reply - it'll be
'alright' for him, because
everything is for his pleasure'
- Animalistic/primitive
desire for sex
- Stella does not reply - it'll be
'alright' for him, because
everything is for his pleasure'
- p.79: 'candles burn out in little
boys' and girls' eyes...'
- Use of motif of light - 'candles'
represent life in the Church,
symbolising her fading youth/life
- Obsession with youth and
innocence because of the
corruption of this in her life
- Use of motif of light - 'candles'
represent life in the Church,
symbolising her fading youth/life
- p.80: 'Sister Blanche, I've got a little
birthday remembrance for you', 'Oh,
have you, Stanley?'
- p.80: 'The 'Varsouviana' music steals
in softly... Stella rises abruptly and
turns her back'
- p.81: 'as a girl', 'tender and trusting'
'people like you abused her, and
forced her to change'
- p.81: 'I was common as dirt', 'I pulled you down
off them columns and how you loved it'
- p.82: '[quietly] Take me to
the hospital'
- p.76: 'fading gradually into a
still-golden dusk', 'A torch of
sunlight blazes', 'pierced by
pin-points of lighted windows'
- Scene Nine
- p.83: 'Blanche is seated in a tense hunched
position', 'She has on her scarlet satin robe', 'The
music is in her mind; she is drinking to escape it
and the sense of disaster closing in on her'
- p.84: 'I forgive you
because it's such a
relief to see you'
- p.85: 'I can't hear what you're
saying', 'Oh yes - liquor!'
- p.86: 'I don't think I've ever seen you
in the light'
- p.86 'fearfully', 'He tears the paper
lantern off the light-bulb'
- p.86: 'I don't want realism', 'I'll
tell you what I want. Magic!'
- p.87: 'The Tarantula Arms',
'That's where I brought my
victims', intimacies with
strangers was all I seemed able
to fill my empty heart with ...'
- p.87-8: 'My youth was suddenly gone up
the water spout, and - I met you', 'you
seemed to be gentle - a cleft in the rock
of the world that I could hide in!'
- p.88: 'I didn't lie
in my heart'
- p.88: 'I - lived in a house
where dying old women
remembered their dead men',
'Flores para los muertos'
- p.89: 'The
opposite is desire'
- p.89: 'fumbling to embrace her', 'I
don't think I want to marry you any
more', 'You're not clean enough to
bring in the house with my mother'
- p.89: 'Get out of here quick before I start
screaming fire!', 'Her throat is tightening
with hysteria'
- p.83: 'Blanche is seated in a tense hunched
position', 'She has on her scarlet satin robe', 'The
music is in her mind; she is drinking to escape it
and the sense of disaster closing in on her'
- Scene Ten
- p.90: 'she has decked herself out in a
somewhat soiled and crumpled
white satin evening gown and a pair
of scuffed silver slippers with
brilliants set in their heels'
- p.90: 'She catches her breath and
slams the mirror face down with
such violence that the glass cracks'
- p.91: 'It goes to show,
you never know what
is coming'
- p.92: 'Shall we bury
the hatchet and make
it a loving-cup?'
- p.93: 'This man is a
gentleman and
respects me'
- p.93: 'Physical beauty is passing...
But beauty of the mind and richness
of the spirit and tenderness of the
heart... Increase with the years!'
- p.94: 'Lurid reflections appear on the walls', 'a
grotesque and menacing form' 'The night is filmed
with inhuman voices like cries in a jungle', 'move
sinuously as flames'
- p.96: 'Caught in a trap' / p.97: 'biting
his tongue which protrudes
between his lips', 'softly'
- p.98: 'We've had this date with
each other from the beginning!'
- p.90: 'she has decked herself out in a
somewhat soiled and crumpled
white satin evening gown and a pair
of scuffed silver slippers with
brilliants set in their heels'
- Scene Eleven
- p.98: 'the atmosphere... the
same raw, lurid one of the
disastrous poker night',
'men are callous things with
no feelings'
- p.99: 'sky of turquoise',
'artificial violets'
- p.99: 'I couldn't believe her story
and go on living with Stanley'
- p.102: 'The rest of my time I'm going to spend on the sea',
'I'll be buried at sea sewn up in a clean white sack and
dropped overboard - at noon - in the blaze of summer -
and into an ocean as blue as my first lover's eyes!'
- p.104: 'no sound but that of Stanley
steadily shuffling the cards'
- p.105: 'She cries out as if the
lantern was herself'
- p.105: 'Oh, God, what have I done to my
sister?', 'the only thing you could do', 'there
wasn't no other place for her to go'
- p.106: 'You! You done this', 'I'll kill you!',
'Mitch collapses at the table, sobbing'
- p.107: 'His fingers
find the opening of
her blouse'
- p.107: 'This game is
seven-card stud'
- Blanche symbolises the original
'five-stud' game, as she is
old-fashioned, haunted by her past
and unable to move on
- Stanley symbolises the new 'seven-stud'
game, as he is constantly looking forward
- indicates he has 'won' the 'game'
- Suggests that men play games with
women for their own enjoyment, without
caring about the consequences
- 'Stud' connotes
male dominance
- Blanche symbolises the original
'five-stud' game, as she is
old-fashioned, haunted by her past
and unable to move on
- p.98: 'the atmosphere... the
same raw, lurid one of the
disastrous poker night',
'men are callous things with
no feelings'
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