BLOOD WEDDING -FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA

By

                                                              BLOOD WEDDING

                                                                                    FEDERICO  GARCIA LORCA

 

    Federico Garcia Lorca's Blood Wedding is a tragedy focusing on a woman and the two men who love her. The play examines the societal norms that keep her from being with the man she loves. The power of desire is explored as the play unveils the consequences of gender roles and isolation. In this lesson, we'll go over the play's conflict, characters, and themes.

    Blood Wedding is a tragedy about a young woman and two men fighting for her love. The Bride is in love with Leonardo, but their families do not get along, so Leonardo marries another woman. The Bride is also arranged to be married to another man, whom she doesn't love, but will marry to appease her family's wishes. Although Leonardo is married already, he confesses to the Bride that he is still in love with her. At first, she tells him to be silent, but then confesses that she still loves him, too.

    Despite these revelations, she goes on with her marriage to the other man, but on the night of her wedding reception, she elopes with Leonardo. When their disappearance is revealed, the Mother commands that everybody search for them. In the forest that the Bride and Leonardo have fled into, the play takes a surrealistic turn. The Moon and Death work together to encourage the Bridegroom and Leonardo to kill one another. Leonardo and the Bridegroom meet and kill each other in a knife fight.

    At the end of the play, the Bride returns to the church hoping the Bridegroom's Mother will kill her, but she doesn't. The play closes with both women reflecting on the deaths of the men. Before we move on, it should be noted that an alternate version of the play exists in which the Bride returns to town and is killed by the Mother to restore balance.

Characters

Bridegroom

Our first character is that of the Bridegroom. He is happy and positive about marrying the Bride throughout the play. He comes from a wealthy family, owns a vineyard, and abides by the societal expectations of his culture. He is his mother's last surviving child and is overprotected because both his father and brother were murdered.

Bride

The Bride was engaged to Leonardo at age fifteen, but due to strife between the families, the marriage never took place. She attempts to be a dutiful daughter and marry the Bridegroom even though she doesn't love him, but fails to do so.

Mother

The Bridegroom's Mother is an elderly woman who gossips and shares information about her son's upcoming marriage to the Bride. She is vocal about traditional gender roles. She fears knives because knives killed her husband and other son and often goes into hysterical fits at the sight of a knife.

Father

The Father is a conservative, wealthy man who grows alfalfa. He prefers the rural region because it isolates his daughter from society.

Leonardo Felix

Leonardo Felix is the Bride's true love. He is hot-tempered and irrational. Leonardo has been in love with the Bride since childhood. Since the two never marry, Leonardo marries her cousin.

Leonardo's Wife

On the contrary, Leonardo's Wife is an innocent, prudent woman. She isn't aware of her husband's love for her cousin.

Mother-in-Law

Mother-in-Law acts in a supporting role for Leonardo's Wife. She helps care for their son and reasserts the traditional role of a woman in society.

Neighbor

The Neighbor is a friend of Mother's. The Neighbor stops by the house to gossip or talk about town events.

Girls

The Girls come into the play to deliver news. Moreover, the Girls constantly speculate on their own futures.


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

By
Image
                                            JOHN MILTON John Milton   (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) was an English poet, pamphleteer,and historian,   polemicist,   man of letters, and a civil servant for the   Commonwealth of England   under   Oliver Cromwell. He wrote at a time of religious flux and political upheaval, and is best known for his   epic poem   Paradise Lost   (1667), written in   blank verse. He is considered the most significant English author after   William Shakespeare Milton's poetry and prose reflect deep personal convictions, a passion for freedom and self-determination, and the urgent issues and political turbulence of his day. Writing in English, Latin, Greek, and Italian, he achieved international renown within his lifetime, and his celebrated   Areopagitica   (1644)—written in condemnation of pre-publication censorship—is among history's most influential and impassioned defences of free speech and freedom of the press. Milton is best
Read more

KINDLY ADJUST TO OUR ENGLISH -Shashi Tharoor

By
KINDLY ADJUST TO OUR ENGLISH                                                                                     -Shashi Tharoor         He is the Indian national Congress MP Thiruvananthapuram. He is the Author of 23 books, Ex- minister of stat e, government of India and Former under Secretary General, United Nations. He outlines the key of elements of a possible peace in Ukraine and urges UN Secretary-General to give a call to the warning nation to stop the war. He plays his part in bringing the needless suffering and destruction to an end. His ideas on the way English is used in this country are helpful to the English learning persons.            Indian English is a result of the British colonization of India which lasted more than 200 years. Officially, Indians follow the rules of British English grammar but there are a lot of differences in the way Indians speak English. A little over 108 of Indians speak English. There is diversity among Indian English speakers due to cultu
Read more
By
Image
JOHN KEATS                                                                             John Keats was an English Romantic poet. He was one of the main figures of the second generation of romantic poets along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley , despite his work only having been in publication for four years before his death.            Although his poems were not generally well received by critics during his life, his reputation grew after his death, so that by the end of the 19th century he had become one of the most beloved of all English poets. He had a significant influence on a diverse range of later poets and writers. Jorge Luis Borges stated that his first encounter with Keats was the most significant literary experience of his life.           The poetry of Keats is characterized by sensual imagery, most notably in the series of odes. Today his poems and letters are some of the most popular and most analyzed in English literature. CHARACTERISTIC
Read more