Frankenstein & Streetcar Quotes

Reality vs Illusion: Victor (1)

The beauty of the dream vanished and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart.

Reality vs Illusion: Victor (2)

Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds which I should break first and pour a torrent light into our dark world.

Suffering & Responsibility: Creature

I was benevolent and good, misery made me a fiend.

Suffering & Responsibility: Victor

Did I not as his maker, owe him a portion of happiness that was in my power to bestow.

Identity: Creature

What was I? Who was I?

Identity: Victor

My own spirit let loose from the grave.

Isolation & Alienation: Creature

Increase in knowledge only dictated to me more clearly what a wretched outcast I was.

Isolation & Alienation: Creature (2)

I am solitary and abhorred

Suffering & Responsibility: Creature

My protector has departed me and had broken the only link that held me to the world.

Power & Control: Victor

A new species would bless me as its creator and source.

Power & Control: Creature

Beware for I am fearless and therefore powerful.

Reality vs Illusion: Blanche (1)

I don’t want realism, I want magic!

Reality & Illusion: Blanche (2)

I can’t stand a naked lightbulb anymore than a rude remark.

Identity: Blanche

A woman’s charm is 50% illusion.

Identity: stage directions

Her appearance is incongruous to this setting.

Identity: Stanley

What I am is 100% American born and raised.

Power & Control: Stanley (1)

Not in my territory

Power & Control: Stanley (2)

In the state of Louisiana we have the Napoleonic code, according to which what belongs to the wife, belongs to the husband and vice versa..

Violence: Stanley stage directions

Stanley gives a loud whack of his hand on her thigh

Symbolism: Bird Imagery

“Some canary bird” Blanche presented as prey.

Symbolism: Light

Blanche covers the exposed lightbulb with a chinese paper lantern. Symbolises reality of her past which she tries to avoid.

Symbolism: Bathing

Efforts to cleanse herself of her terrible past.