Blood Wedding Journal 2

Symbols:
Horse
Water
Knife
Marriage ?
Yellow
Pink
Vineyards
Land
Roads
Flowers


Lorca & Archetypes:
Lorca characterizes the archetypes of the play by making each one talking in a certain way, the Mother always talking about her children, the Bridegroom talking about his work and about his fiancé, and the bride talking in a polite manner, but only when surrounded by the Bridegrooms family. I believe that for the most part Lorca does embrace the archetype the mother always talks about her family which should be the case; "Can anyone bring me back your father? Or your brother?"(7) Multiple times are the father and brother mentioned, and always alongside of her showing that she misses them very much. I think this helps provide a little more emphasis on the motherly side of protective and wanting her husband and son back as any mother would want. In multiple times the mother is protective towards her child or the Bridegroom but not always does she seem like the archetype of a mother being sweet, nurturing, kind, or just staying at home doing nothing but embroidery. The times when she seems not like the typical mother is when she is out gossiping with her neighbor: "Neighbor Things happen. Two days ago they brought in my neighbor's son- with both arms cut off by the machine. Mother Rafael?"(12). the mother is going against her stay home stereotype by leaving her home and also by gossiping with another neighbor, when a mother is stereotyped I seem to think of a woman who would never gossip. Another case where a character goes a little out of their archetype is the bride. When the bride is around the groom and his family she acts like a typical bride and like the archetype, but when she is away from him she becomes rude, loud and not very considerate of others thoughts and opinions. The effect of characterization I think is to show that each character has sides to them, one that goes with the archetype and another that does not.