Scene 2

1. Why is Stella taking Blanche out for the evening? How does Stanley feel about it?

2. At the beginning of the scene, Blanche is bathing. What do you think her bathing symbolizes?

3. According to Stanley, what is the Napoleonic Code? Why is it significant to him?

4. What has actually happened to Belle Reve?

5. What does Blanche tell Stanley about illusion and truth? What truth does she tell Stanley?

Read these excerpts. lincoln's "gettysburg address." it is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. whitman's "o captain! my captain! ". exult, o shores, and ring, o bells! but i, with mournful tread, walk the deck my captain lies, fallen cold and dead. which rhetorical appeal do both excerpts use? logos: the use of logic to convince the audience pathos: the use of emotional appeals to affect the audience’s feelings brevity: writing or speaking that is short, brief, and to the point ethos: the use of authority to persuade the audience to act the right way