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Blanche key quotes
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| -"Her appearance is.." | -incongruous to this setting" -scene 1 -stage direction |
| -"She is daintily dressed in a white suit with a fluffy bodice...white gloves and hat..." | -"looking as if she were arriving at a summer tea or cocktail party" -scene 1 -stage direction, characterization |
| -"There is something about her uncertain manner, as well as her white clothes..." | -"that suggest a moth" -scene 1 -stage direction, symbolism |
| -" Don't you look at me Stella, no, no, no..." | -"...I won't be looked at in the merciless glare!" -scene 1 -dialogue |
| -"she is shaking all over and panting for breath as she tries to laugh...." | -"the bottle nearly slips from her grasp" -scene 1 -stage direction |
| -"I want to be near you, got to be with somebody, I can't be lone because ..." | -"I'm not very well" -scene 1 -dialogue |
| -"You are the one who abandoned Belle Reve not I! I stayed and fought for it, bled for it..." | -"almost died for it!...where were you? In bed with your polack" -scene 1 -monologue |
| -"the polka music rises up... | -faint in the distance" -scene 1 -stage direction, sound design, symbolism |
| -"the boy- the boy died..." | -"I'm afraid I'm going to be sick!" -scene 1 -dialogue |
| -"admire her dress and tell her she's looking wonderful.." | -"that's important to Blanche... her little weakness!" -scene 2 -dialogue |
| -"well life is too full of evasions and ambiguities..." | -"I think! -scene 2 -dialogue |
| -"If I didn't know that you was my wife's sister..." | -"I'd get ideas about you!" -scene 2 -dialogue, foreshadowing |
| -"I laughed and... flirted!..." | -"yes! I was flirting with your husband Stella!" -scene 2 -dialogue, foreshadowing |
| -"you're standing in the light Blanche!" | -"Oh, am I" -scene 3 -dialogue |
| -"Oh! I there an inscription? ..." | -"I can't make it out" -scene 3 -dialogue |
| -"I can't stand a naked lightbulb anymore than I can stand..." | -"a rude remark or vulgar action!" -scene 3 -dialogue, symbolism |
| -"Blanche waltzes to the music with romantic gestures...." | -"Mitch is delighted and moves in awkward imitation like a dancing bear" -scene 3 -stage direction |
| -"I won't have you cleaning.." | -"up for him!" -scene 4 -dialogue, foreshadows |
| -"On the contrary, I saw him at his best!..." | -"The only way to live with such a man is to go to bed with him!" -scene 4 -dialogue, foreshadowing |
| _"what you're talking about is desire..." | -"just-desire- the name of that rattle trap streetcar" -scene 4 -dialogue, symbolism |
| -"there is something downright bestial about him...He acts like an animal, has animal habits..." | -"there he is, Stanley Kowalski, survivor of the stone age!" -scene 4 -monologue, animal motif |
| -"Stella has embrace him fiercely and in full view of Blanche...the music of the...." | -"blue piano.. is heard" -scene 4 -stage direction, sound design, symbolism |
| -"September, thats under virgo..." | -"virgo is the virgin" -scene 5 -dialogue, symbolism |
| -"the hotel flamingo is not..." | -"the sort of establishment I would dare to be seen in!" -scene 5 -dialogue, foreshadowing |
| -"there is a murmur of..." | -"thunder" -scene 5 -stage direction, sound design, pathetic fallacy |
| -"I was never hard or self-sufficient enough...soft people have got to court the favour of hard ones Stella. Have to put on soft colours, the colours of butterfly wings and glow.." | -"put a paper lantern over the light" -scene 5 -monologue, symbolism |
| -"I want to deceive him enough to make him want me..." "do you want him?"... | -"I want to rest" -scene 5 -dialogue |
| -"I've got to be good and.. " | -"keep my hands off children." -scene 5 -dialogue, foreshadowing |
| -"I was just obeying the law of nature..." | -"the lady must entertain the gentleman -or no dice!" -scene 6 -dialogue |
| -"voulez vous couche avec moce soir?...." | -Je ne comprende pas? Quel dommage!" -scene 6 -dialogue, foreshadowing |
| -"i guess I just have ..." | -"old fashioned ideals (She rolls her eyes knowing he cannot see her face)" -scene 6 -dialogue, stage direction, dramatic irony, foreshadowing |
| -"he hates me, why else would he insult me?... perhaps in some perverse way he-..." | -"to think it makes me (she makes a gesture of revulsion)" -scene 6 -dialogue, stage direction, foreshadowing |
| -"he was a boy, just a boy...I didn't find out anything until after our marriage when we'd run away and come back and all I knew was..." | -"I'd failed him in some mysterious way" -scene 6 -dialogue |
| -"the I found out...we pretended that nothing had been discovered... we danced the varsouviana. suddenly in the middle of the dnace the boy I married broke away from me and ran out of the casino. A few moments later - a shot!" | -"he had stuck the revolver into his mouth and fired." -scene 6 -dialogue |
| -"You need somebody. And I need somebody too. Could it be you and me Blanche?..." | -"sometimes there's god so quickly" -scene 6 -dialogue |
| -"sister Blanche is no..." | -"lily!" -scene 7 -dialogue |
| -"It's a barnum and Bailey world, just as phony as can be..." | -"but it wouldn't be make-believe, if you believed in me!" -scene 7 -dialogue, dramatic irony |
| -"a 17 year old boy..." | -"she'd gotten mixed up with!" -scene 7 -dialogue |
| -"posses your soul some patience!" | -"it's not my soul I'm worried about!" -scene 7 -dialogue, allusion |
| -"the distant piano goes into a..." | -"hectic breakdown" -scene 7 -sound design, stage direction, symbolism |
| -"Blanche has a tight...." | -"artificial smile on her drawn face" -scene 8 -stage direction |
| -"she remains by the phone with a..." | -"lost, frightened look" -scene 8 -stage direction |
| -"candles burn out in little boys' and girls' eyes...after that happens..." | -"electric lightbulbs go on and you see too plainly" -scene 8 -dialogue |
| -"The varsouviana music steals in softly and continues playing..." | -"blanche tries to smile. Then she tries to laugh. Then she gives up both and springs up from the table and runs into the bathroom." -scene 8 -stage direction, sound design, symbolism, pathos |
| -"You didn't know Blanche as a girl. Nobody was tender and trusting as she was..." | -"but people like you abused her, and forced her to change." -scene 8 -dialogue, pathos |
| -"the varsouviana music is hears rising with sinister rapidity as the bathroom door opens slightly ..." | -"Blanche comes out twisting a wash cloth." -scene 8 -stage direction, sound design, symbolism |
| -"she has on her scarlet satin robe..." | -"the rapdid, feverish polka tune, the varsouviana is heard. The music is in her mind; she is drinking to escape it." -scene 9 -stage direction, sound design, symbolism |
| -"you've stopped that polka tune..." | -"that I had caught in my head" -scene 9 -dialogue, symbolism |
| -"the polka tune starts up again..." | -"That music again...the varsouviana? The poker tune they were playing when Alan-Wait!" -scene 9 -dialogue, stage direction, sound design, symbolism |
| -"There now, the shot! It always stops after that!.." | -"the polka music dies out again" -scene 9 -stage direction, dialogue, sound design, symbolism |
| -"he tears the paper lantern off the light bulb..." | -"she utters a frightened gasp." -scene 9 -stage direction, symbolism |
| -"I'll tell you what I want. Magic!...I don't tell the truth, I tell what ought to be the truth. And if that is sinful, then let me damned for it!..." | -don't turn the light on!" -scene 9 -dialogue, symbolism |
| -"flamingo? No! Tarantula was the name of it!..." | -"...that's where I brought my victims" -scene 9 -dialogue, symbolism |
| -"Yes, i had many intimacies with strangers. After the death of Allan..." | -"hunting for some protection" -scene 9 -dialogue |
| -"you're not clean enough to bring in the house..." | -"with my mother." -scene 9 -dialogue |
| -"the distant piano..." | -"is slow and blue" -scene 9 -sound design, stage direction, symbolism |
| -"she has decked herself out in a somewhat soiled and crumpled...." | -"white satin evening gown" -scene 10 -stage direction, costuming, symbolism |
| -"just me and you Blanche..." | -"unless you got somebody hid under the bed." -scene 10 -dialogue |
| -"deliberate cruelty is not forgivable. It is the one unforgivable thing in my opinion..." | -"and it is the one thing of which I have never, never been guilty" -scene 10 -dialogue |
| -"You come in here and..." | -"cover the lightbulb with a paper lantern" -scene 10 -dialogue, symbolism |
| -"night is filled with inhuman voices like cries..." | -"from a jungle" -scene 10 -sound design, stage direction, symbolism |
| -"the barely audible blue piano begins to drum up louder..." | -"the sound of it turns into the roar of a locomotive" -scene 10 -symbolism, sound design, stage direction |
| -"the blue piano goes softly..." | -"...the inhuman jungle voices rise up." |
| -"Blanche appears in the amber light of the door..." | -"she has a tragic radiance in her red satin robe" -scene 11 -stage direction, symbolism, costuming |
| -"a look of sorrowful perplexity as though all human experience..." | -"shows on her face." -scene 11 -pathos, stage direction |
| -"you look wonderful blanche..." | -"doesn't she look wonderful?" -scene 11 -dialogue |
| -"I'm anxious to get out of here..." | -"this place is a trap!" -scene 11 -dialogue |
| -"its delle robbia blue..." | -"the blue of the robe in the old madonna pictures" -scene 11 -costuming, symbolism, dialogue |
| -"please don't get up..." | -"I'm only passing through" -scene 11 -dialogue |
| -"lurid reflections appear on the walls, sinuous shapes..." | -"the varsouviana is filtered into weird distortion" -scene 11 -sound design, symbolism, stage direction |
| -"she cries out as if..." | -"the lantern was herself" -scene 11 -symbolism, stage direction |
| -"whoever you are..." | -"I have always depended on the kindness of strangers" -scene 11 -dialogue, cyclical ending |
| -"she allows him to lead her as if..." | -"she were blind" -scene 11 -stage direction |
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