Journal #9 - Blood Wedding

Typical Gender Roles
In Blood Wedding, Lorca reinforces typical gender roles many times throughout the play, but seems that he does not agree with them. This role is shown by the Mother's advice to her son, telling him to be firm and dominant in his relationship with the Bride. She also complains about not having a girl to sew clothes and lace with. Furthermore, the Father and the Bridegroom reinforce how men are the workers of the household with their ownership and nurturing of the vineyards.


Fate and the Cycle of Life
This the is represented in the play when the Maid is talking to the Bride. The Bride speaks about how she suffers and her mother suffered before her due to the expectations placed on them, and the Maid denounces this as fate, implying that one cannot control what happens. Also the Bride's suffering in the face of marriage shows her awareness that marriage represents the next step in her cycle of life.


Deception
Lorca creates a line between those that deceive and are aware, and those that are ignorant. Examples of characters that are ignorant include the Bridegroom and the Father, while the deceiving characters are the Maid, Bride, and Mother. One can see this from the naive personality of the Bridegroom, and the denial from the Father when he finds that his daughter had run away. However, the Maid and Mother know more than the Bridegroom and Father on the situation, but keep it to themselves, and in this way can be considered as deceiving. Also the Bride herself deceives everyone by hiding her true feelings.