Lorca
Blood Wedding is about a marriage that is not about love but it is not totally without any feelings. The son has to ask his mother for permission to marry his bride. He wants his mother to approve of his marriage even though the mother is worried about the bride and how she might be she reluctantly approves of her son’s marriage. The play gives the idea that marriage is about how much money a person has and whether or not they will be good enough to provide for the family. The bride must be able to bake bread, speak softly, and sew. The husband should be rich and be able to work and earn money and food for his family. In the play the bride does not marry Leonardo most likely because he is not rich enough for her. She marries the bridegroom mainly because he is rich and has vineyards and will make a good husband. Most people today marry because they are in love but in this story love doesn’t really have anything to do with marriage. I think that the fact that the bride is not in love really bothers her and that she may really love Leonardo, which is why she runs away in the end.
I felt the same way about this play and how marriage did not have anything to do with love. I liked you lines about what roles the wife and husband get from their marriage and what is expected of them. I also felt the same way with thinking that she ran away because she was not in love and it bothered her. I can see through this play why marriages like this have faded out and today are not like this.
↓ Quote | Posted November 27, 2006, 9:43 amI really enjoyed the views about marriage you say here maureen. It’s evident that this is not the way marriage is today for us because their is the love aspect involved.
↓ Quote | Posted December 11, 2006, 10:06 am