Class and Power - DOM + SCND

Question 1

Moral equality of class - Antonio 2:3

Answer 1

‘The great are like the base, nay they are the same, when they seek shameful ways to avoid shame’

Question 2

Strains of status - Duchess 1:2

Answer 2

‘the misery of us that are born great’

Question 3

Sense of inferiority due to class separation - Antonio 1:2

Answer 3

‘O my unworthiness’

Question 4

Saviour complex of upper classes - Cardinal 2:4

Answer 4

‘I have taken you off your melancholy perch’

Question 5

The influence of the upper classes on the whole of society - Antonio 1:1

Answer 5

‘a prince’s court is like a common fountain […] some curs’d example poison in the head, death and disease through the whole land spread’

Question 6

Upper class morality - Blanche 6

Answer 6

‘I have… old fashioned ideals!’

Question 7

Segregation of classes - Stella 1

Answer 7

‘a different species’

Question 8

Drop in class status - Stanley 8

Answer 8

‘I pulled you down off them columns and how you loved it, having them coloured lights going’

Question 9

Class imagery - Stage Directions 1

Answer 9

[roughly dressed in blue denim work clothes]

Question 10

Class and sexuality shaming - Blanche 1

Answer 10

‘In bed with your… Polack!’

Question 11

Embodying the American dream - Stanley 8

Answer 11

‘one hundred percent American, born and raised in the greatest country on Earth and proud as hell of it’

Question 12

High class in a lower class setting - SD

Answer 12

[incongruous to this setting]

Question 13

Maintaining status - Stanley 8

Answer 13

‘I am the King around here’

Question 14

Class and corrupt dominance - Antonio 1:1

Answer 14

‘he strews in his way flatterers, panders, intelligencers, atheists and a thousand such political monsters’

Question 15

Combatting racism - Stanley 8

Answer 15

‘I am not a Polack’

Question 16

Resentment at Blanche’s higher class - Stanley 2

Answer 16

‘where are your pearls and gold bracelets?’

Question 17

Classicism - Blanche 4

Answer 17

‘he’s common!’

Question 18

Sacrifice of the lower classes - Bosola 1:1

Answer 18

‘I fell to the galleys in your service’

Question 19

Purity of blood - Cardinal 1:3

Answer 19

‘sway your high blood’

Question 20

Setting of New Orleans

Answer 20

[intermingling of races]

Question 21

Power over life and death - Antonio 1:1

Answer 21

‘dooms men to death by information, rewards by hearsay’

Question 22

Dehumanisation of the lower classes - Blanche 1:1

Answer 22

‘acts like an animal, has an animal’s habits’

Question 23

Malcontent and a lack of meritocracy - Bosola 1:1

Answer 23

‘miserable age, where the only reward of doing well is the doing of it’

Question 24

Mistreatment of lower classes - Ferdinand 4:2

Answer 24

‘I’ll give thee a pardon’

Question 25

Metaphor for lack of social mobility - Duchess 1:2

Answer 25

'this goodly roof of yours, is too low built'

Question 26

Noble blood - Cardinal 2:5

Answer 26

'shall our blood, the royal blood of Aragon and Castile, be thus attainted?'

Question 27

Changing world of social mobility - Bosola 3:2

Answer 27

'can this ambitious age have so much goodness in't as to prefer a man merely for worth?'

Question 28

Blanche's upper class dress - 1

Answer 28

[daintily dressed in a white suit]

Question 29

Description of 'Aragonian brethren' - Bosola 1:1

Answer 29

'he and his brother are like plum trees that grow crooked over standing pools [...] non but crows, pies and caterpillars feed on them'

Question 30

Social power - Ferdinand 1:1

Answer 30

'laugh when I laugh'

Question 31

Assertion of dominance in poker - Stanley 3

Answer 31

'nothing belongs on a poker table but cards, chips and whiskey'

Question 32

His friends replicate him - Blanche 4

Answer 32

'grunting like him'