Streetcar - Quotes by theme/idea
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- Created on: 10-05-16 10:07
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- Streetcar: Quotes by theme/idea
- Realism/Illusion
- '[Stanley: Mimicking] Soaking in a hot tub?'
- 'I don't want realism - I want magic!'
- 'The blind are - leading the blind!'
- 'Couldn't believe her story and go on living with Stanley'
- 'Blanche! You're standing in the light'
- 'I won't be looked at in this merciless glare'
- '[Stanley] Stalked through the poterieres'
- Desire/Intimacy
- 'A woman's charm is 50 per cent illusion'
- 'Intimacies with strangers was all I seemed able to fill my empty heart with'
- 'Young, young man, has anybody tell you you look like the Prince out of the Arabian nights'
- 'Bow to me first'
- 'Told me to take a streetcar named desire...'
- Brutality
- 'Since then there has never been a light stronger than this - kitchen candle'
- 'I want what I been missing all summer'
- 'We've had this date since the beginning'
- 'Found out in the worst way possible'
- 'Red-stained package'
- '[There is the sound of a blow. Stella cries out]'
- Social Class
- 'I pulled you down off them columns'
- 'Blanche and I grew up under very different circumstances than you'
- 'A great big place with white columns'
- Gender
- '"My sister has married a man!" - Of course, that's all I could tell about you'
- 'Under the Napoleonic code, a man has to take an interest in his wife's affairs'
- 'What such a man has to offer is animal force!'
- Death/Loss
- 'Candles burn out in little boys and girls eyes'
- 'Get off at cemeteries'
- 'I let the place go?'
- Realism/Illusion
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