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** Quotations - Streetcar Named Desire ** ** 1. **** Relationship ** · Stella & Stanley o Stanley: ‘Meat!’ [Ref: animalistic / aggressive nature] S1   o Stanley: ‘Since when do you give me orders’ [Ref: Shows dominance] S2     o Stella: ‘I want to know why, tell me why’ S8     o Stella: ‘People like you abused her, and forced her to change’ S8     o SD: //They come together with slow animal moans//. S3    · Blanche & Stella o Stella: ‘You never did give me a chance to say much… got in the habit of being quiet around you.’ S1    o Blanche: ‘I stayed and fought for it, but you left…I knew you would take this attitude about it!’ S1    · Blanche & Stanley o Blanche: ‘What such a man has to offer is animal force…’ S4   o Stanley: ‘Oh you want some rough house! Let’s have some rough house!’ S10 o Stanley: ‘Just me and you Blanche. Unless you have some body under the bed’ S10 o Blanche: ‘How could I stay here with in, after last night, with just those curtains between us?’ S4    · Steve & Eunice o Eunice: ‘Don’t you throw that at me…why you hitting me!’ S5    o Steve: ‘That rutting hunk’ S5    o SD: //Eunice// //shrieks with laughter…runs down steps. Steve bounds after here with goat like screeches…chases her around the corner.// S5  ** 2. **** Symbols ** · Light o Blanche: ‘Turn that over-light off! I wont be looked at in this merciless glare!’ o Blanche: ‘I cant stand a naked lightbulb, anymore than I can a vulgar action’ S3   o Blanche: ‘Light never exposed so total a ruin’ [about to herself] S1    o Mitch: ‘I don’t think I’ve ever seen you in the light’ S9    o Blanche: ‘And then the searchlight which had been turned on the world was turned off again and never for one moment since has there been any light that’s stronger than this kitchen candle’ S6    · Streetcar o Blanche: ‘They told me to take a streetcar named desire and then transfer to one called cemeteries and ride six blocks at get off at elysian fields!’ S1    o Blanch: ‘What you are talking about is brutal desire – the name of that rattle-trap streetcar that bangs through the quarter’ S4    o Stella: ‘Haven’t you even ridden on that street car?’ Blanche: ‘It brought me here’ · Music o SD: //Varsouviana polka music steals in softly…continues playing. [Blanche] clutches her throat…runs to bathroom//. S8    o Blanche: ‘The Varsouviana! The polka tune they were playing when Allan…there now the shot! It always stops after that.’ S9   ** 3. **** Themes ** · Violence & Cruelty o Stella: ‘you lay your hands on me and I’ll- //he advances and disappears, there is the sound of a blow. Stella cries out.’// · Madness o Blanche: ‘Didn’t I get a call?’ Stella: ‘From who, Blanche?’ Blanche: ‘Shep Huntleigh…’ S11 o Blanche //(retreating in panic)//: I don’t know you-I don’t know you. I want to be- left alone- please! o Blanche: ‘Im anxious to get out of here, this place is a trap!’ S11 ** 4. **** Setting ** o Blanche: ‘What are you doing in a place like this… out there I suppose is the whole ghoul-haunted woodland of Weir!... Why didn’t you tell me you had to live in these conditions.’