quotes

• 'The men are at the 'peak of their manhood, as coarse and direct and powerful as colours'
• 'competition,aggressiveness, and finally domination are the rules'
• 'I'd have that on my conscience for the rest of my life if I knew all that stuff and let my best friend get caught'- Blanche attacked by Stanley's manipulation and cruel enigmatic and euphemistic revelation of her past. He victimises Blanche 'caught' exposes extent of repercussions for women
• 'Stanley spears his fork into the remaining chop which he eats with his fingers;- deeply primal animalistic imagery.
• 'Stanley gives her a loud back of his hand on her thigh'- onomatopoeic verb 'back' and pornification of 'thigh' shows the objectification of women in 1940s America
• 'The jig is all up!'-scene 7- exclamative connoting excitement and an overt lack of compassion towards her and an insight into his own superficial understanding of sexual relationships.
• 'He hurls a plate to the floor' 'he seizes her arm'-scene 8- 'go and wash up and clear the table' illustrates his control/ disparaging attitude towards women if they don't please him they don't deserve his respect
• 'STELLAHHHH' yell connotes mating call and is cohesive with the initial description of him as a 'richly feathered bird among hens'
• 'sister blanche is no lily'- ironically calling her sister blanche a title given to anuun. Association with purity, her sexuality weaponised against her
• 'Remember what Huey Long said- Every man is a king! And I am the king around here'- Huey long was a perceived tyrant who abused his position of power
• 'It's gonna be sweet when we can make noise in the night the way we used to and get the coloured lights going;- euphemistically refers to sex. Stanleys links to lurid colours. Coloured lights and sex highlights his characters sexuality. Refers to the rape as a 'red letter night'
• 'You hens cut out the conversation in there'- recalls stage directions
• ( He crosses off his bedroom, ripping off his shirt and changes into a brilliant silk bowling shirt)- casual violence of 'ripping' foreshadows violence
• 'Hey canary bird!Toots!Get OUT of the BATHROOM' verbal dominance over Blanche- degrading her through the dehumanising reference.- in Elia kazan production Marlon Brando says this less aggressively