Form and Structure of the play 'Blood Wedding'.

Form and Structure

The play ‘Blood Wedding’ has Three Acts and Seven scenes all together.

In the first act we are introduced to all of the characters, where we see their first impressions of them. In act two we see the characters developing, learning new things. In the end we have an ending, which isn’t expected and could shock the audience.

Lorca was a Spanish writer so therefore his play is set in the Spanish culture. The play begins by introducing the mother and the bridegroom who are arguing about knives. As the audience we begin to notice that the mother has a problem with knives.

The pace of the two characters was relaxed at first but soon the tension begins to rise between the two characters as soon as the word knife was mentioned.

When the bride arrives, the atmosphere of the play changes, the happy atmosphere is interrupted. The mother begins to get cautious, as she is not keen on the bride at first because she knows absolutely nothing about her. When the mother meets the bride and her father, the two parents start to compare there son and daughter too one another, I think this shows that there is a competition atmosphere between the two characters, this is when the tension begins to rise again, the mood becomes jealous because I think Lorca wants to set the father that he wants his daughter to be the best and this is the same with the mother.

“My son has the very best of prospects.”

“My daughter is the finest of girls.”

As the visit continues, I notice that the bride is a bit awkward with the mother, she sounds as though she is hiding something. I think this causes a great amount of tension, the atmosphere starts to become dark and secret. We also notice that the bride is acting around the mother, giving her sharp answers, she sounds as though she doesn’t want to get married, unsure of her decision.

I think the bride is a very important character of the play as the pace, ...

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“My son has the very best of prospects.”

“My daughter is the finest of girls.”

I think the bride is a very important character of the play as the pace, tension, atmosphere and the mood changes. The tension and the pace continues rising, the atmosphere is starting to get deceitful as she doesn’t want to marry the bridegroom and the mood becomes secretive.

On the day of the wedding, we see that the atmosphere is confused, flustered and closed because I feel that the bride knows she doesn’t have much time to decide if she will go through with the wedding. As the maid continues to do the brides hair, we notice that the maid is jealous of the bride,

“You’re so lucky….on top of you.”

If this was said to someone else who wanted to get married they would probably gloat about it, but the bride is very tensed about it and answers short and sharply.

“ Be quiet.”

This is when we start to see the real truth, the tension begins to rise, the atmosphere becomes dark and deceitful and the mood becomes angry and emotive.

The arrival of Leonardo causes a great tension to build up, the atmosphere stays dark and the mood stays angry. I think the arrival of Leonardo splits the play into two parts, as we are now thinking about Leonardo and the bride, wondering if they are going to stay together. The audience is also going to be thinking about the bridegroom and how he would feel.

When Leonardo and the bride are together, I think the bride becomes scared, we see her voice speaking a lot more quickly, I think this shows that she is afraid that Leonardo will change her mind about getting married.

I think Lorca added Leonardo to the play because we see the bride changing, she becomes anxious and shakily, he makes the mood emotive, unknown and angry, the atmosphere becomes darker and deceitful (as he isn’t thinking about his wife and his child.) The tension is also building up,

In Act two Scene two is full of emotion, the cheery atmosphere from the wedding has gone.

When the mother and the father are together we see that the atmosphere is increasingly building up, the mood is stressed and nervous. The bride isn’t happy at all on her wedding day, I think this shows that she knows she has made the wrong decision. The bride acts strange around the bridegroom, she is very sharp with him and soon she makes an excuse that she has a sore head so she doesn’t have to be with him,

“No I want to lie down for a while.”

I think the bride says this very tensed, this shows that she is worried about her decision about marrying the bridegroom.

When we find out that the bride has ran of with Leonardo we immediately notice the atmosphere becomes deceitful, angry and tensed. As the audience we feel pity for the bridegroom and Leonardo’s wife. The mother becomes very powerful, she orders the crowd to spilt in two to go looking for the bride and Leonardo.

“If she’d any shame….lets go now.”

This speech shows that the mother wants revenge, she wants the bride to pay, and I think this shows that the mother feels the pain for her son as she cares about him. The tension is still rising increasingly as the search continues to look for the bride and Leonardo, the atmosphere is darker, deceitful and tensed, and the mood is revenge, emotive and angry.

When Leonardo and the bride are together, the atmosphere is about love, as the audience we can see a lot of love between these two characters. I feel that Lorca wanted these two characters to be together all along.

At the end of the play, we see that Lorca gives an unexpected ending from the beginning. I think he wanted the audience to think that the bride and the bridegroom would be together for a long time not that the bridegroom and Leonardo would both be killed.

In the last scene we see the bride arriving at the mother’s house, the atmosphere is guilt, the mood is also guilt and the tension is rapidly increasingly between the bride and the mother.

The bride feels guilty and wants the mother to do her revenge but the mother tells her to stand outside the door. I think this play is about woman’s rights and reality. I think Lorca wanted people to see what can happen in reality.