Julie Szekely

In Blood Wedding marriage is one of the strong issues of the play. This marriage though is not the typical marriage you think of today in modern society. Today two people get married because they are in love and want to spend the rest of their lives together, as in Blood Wedding love does not play a big role in the idea of marriage. Marriage in this play is much like that of the olden days in which you marry someone based on their social status and parental approval. They married those of the same social status or higher so they would have money on both ends. It is as if they marry to help each other out not because they love each other. They could learn to love each other but I do not feel as if that is true love. When a daughter gets married, due to the sharing of the last name, the husband receives that of what the daughter inherits from the father. This shows how a man would want a wife from a high social class so he will receive more. This type of marriage is greedy and based upon money in my opinion.
In this play the bride is obviously in love with Leonardo but the reason she does not marry him is because he is of lower status to her. She then decides to marry the bridgegroom because he is of high status and rich which will make him a better husband. The bride though ended up running away and this shows us that it was bothering her that they were not in love and that she could not forget about Leonardo. This then shows us that a marriage without love is not satisfying and that is probably why today you choose whom you marry and you choose them based upon your love for them.

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