Betrayal Scene 5 quotes Flashcards
(7 cards)
Emma: What do you c_____ the s_____ to be?
Robert: B________.
Emma: What do you consider the subject to be?
Robert: Betrayal.
-> title drop
-> Robert had the power
Robert: Good and J____?
Emma: F____.
[P_____]
Robert: What about the k____?
Robert: Good and Judith?
Emma: Fine.
[PAUSE]
Robert: What about the kids?
->mirrors the set structure of J +E’s conversation in scene 1. Conveys everything that J might have written in his letter to the wife of his bsf
Robert: ‘You’re trembling. Are you cold?’
Robert: ‘You’re trembling. Are you cold?’
-> verb ‘trembling’ - Emma is petrified
Emma: We’re l_____.
Robert: Ah. Yes. I thought it might be s_______ a_____ t_____ lines.
Emma: We’re lovers.
Robert: Ah. Yes. I thought it might be something along those lines.
-> Plural noun ‘lovers’ - romance still alive// sexual relationship
-> Robert v. dismissive
Robert: F___ y___?
[P____]
Ned is o__ year old.
Robert: Five years?
[PAUSE]
Ned is one year old.
Symbol of weakness. ~ Could undermine his masculinity and paternity
Robert: ‘Did you t__ him that N__ had been c_______?’
Robert: ‘Did you tell him that Ned had been conceived?’
->sub text - natural morbid curiosity into their sex life
Robert: ‘ I’ve a___ liked him r____ m____ than I’ve liked you. Maybe I should have had an a___ with him m______.’
Robert: ‘ I’ve always liked him rather more than I’ve liked you. Maybe I should have had an affair with him myself.’
-> Possessive over his relationship with J
-> Belittles his marriage esp. in adverb + adj comb ‘rather more’
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