Lorca gives his characters names that are specific to their roles, such as mother, father or bride. Leonaro is the only character who has a real name, this choice of Lorca's is perhaps to highlight Leonardo as important or the hero in the story. The naming of character's with their roles is perhaps to emphasize the importance of titles or roles rather than the actual person. By being stripped of a name, a characters is more looked at then through their role in society than by their one self. Lorca than chooses to name his characters by their roles in order to reveal how people's roles in society determine how other people see them and their actions.
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Also, Lorca has a pattern of black in his drama. Lorca's characters are often wearing black, "The MOTHER is dressed in black satin and wears a lace mantilla. The BRIDEGROOM wears a black corduroy suit and a large gold chain" (Act One, Scene 3)
Synthesizing
Through a repeated use of violent imagery and word choice, Lorca highlights the violent and brutal lives of his characters. Such as when he writes, "his frozen mane, and in his eyes a silver dagger" (Act One Scene Two) and "anything that can cut into a man's body!" (Act One, Scene One). Through his somber, violent and simple techniques, Lorca sets of a drama which contains the lives of people who have gone through struggle and heartache in their lives. Lives in which people are judged for their roles and not necassarily themselves. A world in which each person has a role. Such as a bride "makes bread and three" and "never talks--soft as wool" (Act One, Scene Three). By presenting people by their roles, Lorca sets forth his characters as less indiualistic, simple. Therefore, the audience because curious about the true natures of the characters and of the pasts they contain which the author leaves to ambiguous.
ACT II
Ibsen deals with the questionof truth and trust in marriage, and how a lasting and good marriage is one which invovles complete truth from the beginning. Lorca, also, deals with similar matters as this. In his tragedy Blood Wedding, Lorca depicts a Bridesgroom and Bride who are married, only to have the Bride run of with another man on the very same night. Thus, leading to the man, Leonardo, and the Bridesgroom killing each other. Lorca, like Ibsen, deals with this prospect of a marriage which is based on lies, such as the Bride's feeling for Leonardo, cannot last. The Bride's infedelity is what leads to the tragedy at the end of the play, much like Gina's actions contribute to the ending of Wild Duck. Both men depict this theme or question of women being faithful, or if they should be trusted, and how women's actions lead to pain for a man, "How could I go on here and have my hearts skewered every hour of the day" (Ibsen, Act 5, 206) and "The Lover is silent. Crimson, the Groom. On the mute riverbank, I saw them laid out" (Lorca, 3.2.96). In both dramas, men our harmed as a result of a women's actions. Whether it be Hjalmar's pain of knowing his daughter may not be his or his resulting pain which results from Hedvig killing herself, or Leonardo and The Bridesgroom's deaths over the love of the Bride. Both authors portray women as leading to men's downfall and sorrow. Both Lorca and Ibsen deal with the questions of if women can be trusted, and also the fact that women will lead to men's pain. Therefore, both authors shed women in this light of causing pain and suffering for men, and also as not being able to be trusted. In a sense, both authors deal with women as men's vices or the things that lead to their troubles andpain.
Monitoring Meaning
Act II takes place at the Bride’s house on the day of the wedding. Young girls and others appear singing and chanting wedding songs. Leonardo and his wife and mother-in-law are the first guests to arrive, and soon Leonardo and the Bride are speaking heatedly. He declaims against her marriage, their continued separation, and the disaster of their never having married. She replies that she is marrying to finally bury the past and the memory of him. By the second scene of Act II the guests have returned from the marriage ceremony. The wedding celebration is set to begin. In the midst of a large gathering, the mother and father speak of Leonardo, noting his family’s reputation for violence. Soon, the overwhelmed Bride announces her wish to rest for a time. When the Bridegroom goes to find her a bit later, she is nowhere to be found. It is discovered that the lovers have fled. A party with the Bride-groom at its head is formed to seek out the lovers and exact revenge for their transgression.
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ACT III
Bridegroom, reaction to Act 3, scene one, searching for his Bride and Leonardo in the forest, and then is encountered by a beggar woman, who offers to help him:
In searching for my Bride was was lucky enough to come across and old beggar woman who informed me that she knew the road, and could help me to find my Bride. My Bride, oh my Bride. That foul Leonardo! He has no doubt bewitched my Bride and stolen her away with him. But I am sure that I will find them, they cannot hide from a man so strong as I, with the powers of all the men who came before him in his veins. I will find them, and I will kill Leonardo, I will rip up the trees of this forest if I have to. I will get my bride back, even though I am not very familiar to these woods, I am sure that this woman will help me to find my beloved and that awful man. I will not stop until they are found, they shall not escape from me! I shall kill with a knife, as knifes has scared my own family and past, I will not let this disgrace happen to me!
Bride, reaction to Act 3, scene one, as the Bride and Leonardo are in the woods together, confessing their love and realizing that they will no doubt be killed because of their actions:
What have I done? To disgrace my name and run off with Leonardo this way? I know that it is wrong but at the same to a thrill and passion runs through me. To be enthralled by two men is a complex thing. I am surprised by my boldness and my recklessness tonight, but I could not stop myself. Leonardo is to captivating, like a dark river. I find it odd that though my life may soon be over, I am not very much frightened at all. I feel a desire and an excitement pulsing through my veins. I do not care much for my life now, but I fear what will happen to Leonardo, he is foolish to want me like this, danger is rushing through these woods toward us. I feel for Leonardo what I have never felt for The Bridegroom. Leonardo is dark and mysterious, makes me feel reckless and bold, as I have not felt before in my life, being just a Bride, with my womanly duties, always prim and proper. But as a hear the sound of hooves grow ever closer there is only one thing on my mind: for Leonardo to run, run and be free. I have had my taste of freedom, and I know that it is right for me to die, me being such a deceiving and hurtful woman to the man to which I am wed.
Monitoring Meaning
Act III takes place mostly in a forest. This is as far as the lovers have managed to flee by the time the party catches up with them. Three woodcutters open the scene, commenting on the terrible events. Death and the Moon also appear in this scene, both looking forward to what will be, inevitably, somebody’s death. Death, as a beggar woman, points the way to the lovers for the Bridegroom. In the meantime, the Bride encourages Leonardo to escape without her, as their horse is unable to carry them both. She knows that they will try to kill him. He refuses to leave her. With the stage directions having indicated the lovers’ exit and the Moon’s entrance, two shrieks are heard. At the sound of the second shriek, Death appears and moves to center stage with her back to the audience. She spreads out her arms such that a great cape unfurls. This impressive sight ends the second scene of Act III. The final scene of the play opens with two girls winding a skein of red wool. Confusion reigns with various characters appearing and asking for definitive news about the hunt for the lovers. Finally, the Mother is apprised of the terrible truth; her last son is dead at the hands of Leonardo. Leonardo is also dead. The Bride appears, dejected, asking for death. The Mother barely registers her presence as she announces her final descent into inconsolable pain and suffering.
