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In this story Blood Wedding, it gives us the opportunity to compare marriages nowadays to traditional marriages back then. Modern day marriages are supposed to be fulfilled with the desire of love and to live life with your one and only and that “meant to be” someone who you completely adore and can see yourself growing old with.
This tale hands us the outlook on how past marriages are supposed to be arranged. Unlike modern day marriages, the daughter does not pick whom she will marry. These parents choose this for them and standards are raised to love the one who is the wealthiest and will provide the best for the daughter. The mother is crazy about girls being prim and proper, and how they should act as wives. To be in complete submission and to have the utmost devotion to your husband is qualified as a good wife. But things go wrong, the mother becomes murderous and the daughter runs off with another man.
I think a lot of marriages ended up this way long ago. To require a passion that cannot be granted is a lot to ask for in the hand of marriage. The mother and father focused too much on what they could achieve as a whole, instead of what the daughter wants, which would usually end in disaster. But maybe they are so concerned with who they choose for a husband because they want to best for the future of there family down the line?