DESIRE quotes - Streetcar and Malfi

‘Lay a ______ sword between us / Keep us _____’ - ________

‘Lay a naked sword between us / Keep us chaste’ - Duchess

’_______ our violent passions in ______ and in _______’ - _________

’Express our violent passions in riddles and in dreams’ - Duchess

‘Tis not your ________ milk that shall ______ my _______, But your whore’s _______’ - ________

‘Tis not your whore’s milk that shall quench my wild-fire, But your whore’s blood’ - Ferdinand 

‘A young _______ / that _______ you for her _________’ - __________

‘A young widow / that claims you for her husband’ - Duchess

‘There is a ______ and ___________ devil / is ________ in this circle’ - __________

‘There is a saucy and ambitious devil / is dancing in this circle’ - Antonio

‘They come ________ with low _______ ________’ - SD - ______ & ________

‘They come together with low animal moans’ - SD - Stanley & Stella 

’I can _______ stand it when he is _______ for a night […] when he comes back, I cry on his lap like a _______’ -______

’I can hardly stand it when he is away for a night […] when he comes back, I cry on his lap like a baby’ -Stella

‘Her eyes go ______ with ________ [...] [he] lifts her off her feet and _______ her into the ______ flat’ - SD - ______ & _______

‘Her eyes go blind with tenderness [...] [he] lifts her off her feet and bears her into the dark flat’ - SD - Stella & Stanley.

‘_______ colours, the colours of ________ _______’ - ________

‘Soft colours, the colours of butterfly wings’ - Blanche

’Biting his ________ which ________ between his _______’ - _______

’Biting his tongue which protrudes between his lips’ - Stanley

’His _______ find the ________ of her ________’ - _________

’His fingers find the opening of her blouse.’ - Stanley 

‘What you are talking about is brutal desire - just - Desire! - the name of that rattle-trap streetcar’

Blanche

Harsh reality of destructive desire!

‘rattle-trap streetcar’- imagery of the Streetcar evokes a sense of inevitability, as if this desire has an immense power over the fates of the characters!