The Blood Wedding Journal 3

Water:

I think that water stands for passion, it can be seen as this by how it is described, as deep and black, almost like a passion could be. Some passions are to be hidden but yet a person might still want to go for them and they know they want to but yet they are being held back from going towards them for many reasons. The reason behind this passion is that it looks like it could be dangerous if someone was to pursue this passion. The passion leads to the Id in the book which is the subconscious part of the brain that only goes for a human’s desires, sex and violence. These are both things that could lead to some serious problems or deaths, feuds, and many more where that comes from.

 Flowers:

I think that flowers can stand for multiple things but what I think of is comfort, romance, and warmth with color. The flowers can stand for the people who have great wishes and dreams and what they want is what the flowers represent like for instance the rose, the rose can stand for a wish for someone to be strong or being strong, instead of a person being just a fragile flower as for example when the mother and mother-in-law go back and forth talking and one says flower and the other a rose, one wishes for them to be fragile, sweet and free and the other wishes for the girl to be like a rose, strong bold, bright, full of pride, and can protect itself as example of having thorns; something can be both beautiful but strong and fierce and can stay protected at the same time.

I think that the horse is Leonard, it may be a wild guess but when I think of horses in the play it directs me straight to him. He often talks about riding his horse or always riding it instead of a carriage, this is just his wild nature and one of his passions maybe. I also think that he is the horse when they say "And in his eyes A silver dagger"(17-18), later on in the book he is said to have daggers in his eyes, which brought me right back to this, and also the fact that I would imagine him with a piercing look because it would make him look more aggressive because he is a more passionate person. Another reason I think the horse might be him is because he appears right after they are done talking and I think that Lorca did this on purpose to maybe show that Leonard is the horse. Could he be the Horse? What Else could tie to him in the play? 

Comments on others blogs:

Annie:

"I like the thought of the horse representing a journey! I thought it was a very good idea! It was the idea that struck me the most out of the two."

Carmella:

"I like what you said about flowers, I said something around the same area but only when it came to loves and protecting, and I changed characters to wishes."

Katey:

"Perfect! I like it! It is straight forward about knifes and I love literal meanings to things, but could it mean more? hmmmmm..."