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 * Blood Wedding student page**

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(Zac)

=Lorca’s images of death are more powerful than those of life=


 * //“The knife, the knife! Damn the knives, damn all knives, damn the devil who created knives.”//**

**//Mother, page 33//**


 * //“Damm the knife, damm them all and the devil who brought them into this world”//**

**//Mother, page 30//**

Knives are a symbol of Death in Blood wedding. Mother Condemns knives as the tool, which takes her, husband, in effect widowing her.

Second quote at the very beginning of book. Reference to devil very connected to death and


 * //“Knives… gun… pistols, even the sickle and the scythe”.//**

**//Mother, page 30//**

Lorca’s imagery found early on in play, all-powerful symbols of death and murder.


 * //“And when Felix murdered him, I looked straight ahead at the wall”//**

Mother’s obsession with her husband’s murder shrouds the tone of the novel, right from the beginning. It is obvious from the beginning of the play that death is more present than the image of life.

**//First Woodcutter, page 49//**
 * //"They were deceiving themselves, but the blood couldn't be denied."//**

This ambiguous comment on the Bride's situation can be interpreted in multiple ways. Firstly, "the blood" could refer to the passionate love and attraction shared by the Bride and Leonardo; they were deceiving themselves by believing they could be happy with other spouses. However, "the blood" could also mean the reputation Leonardo's family has for violence, and particularly for feuding with the Bridegroom's family. In this interpretation, the Bridegroom's Mother and the Bride's Father are also implicated in the deception, for they declined to warn the Bridegroom about the Bride's relationship with Leonardo ahead of time.

(David Can)

Lorca’s images of death are more powerful than those of life

Lorca’s description's of death and the way he talks about the dead makes this statement true.

The mother’s obsession over the murder of her son and husband shows this quite well.

“anything can slice through a man’s body. An angel of a man, in the flower of his life…”

Lorca writes with deep emotion with a lot of reference to nature, when he does talk with emotion it is usually either about the short enjoyment of life or about death. When he writes of the horse by the water, it isn’t exactly death but instead torture.

“Yes, I saw them; they’ll be here soon; two torrents of water stilled by the rock, two men slung round a horse’s neck. Dead, with the beautiful night in their eyes. ... Their eyes like crushed flowers, and their teeth like fistfuls of hardened snow…”

And the mother then talks of her life not existing anymore, even less than before, where she hadn’t been down the road in 20 years. And the same for the bride, the way she talks of her new life and that of the widow of Leonardo is a life behind closed doors and closed shutters.

By the end of the play almost all characters who didn’t have real names have lost that status; Father, Mother, Bride, Wife. Leonardo is the only one who has a name, he is the most rebellious, the catalyst.