The Blood Wedding Journal # 5

v  Time

v  Passion

v  Internal struggle and choices

v  Death

v  Gender roles

v  Who belongs to who

v  Control

v  Time

v  Passion

v  Internal struggle and choices

v  Death

v  Gender roles

v  Who belongs to who

v  Control

v  Duende

1.  The symbolism of the woodcutter, beggar woman and moon
I believe that the woodcutter stands for a chorus of sorts. I say this because they make comments on things and speak their mind unlike some of the characters in the book and they comment on more things than one all in one setting, plus a chorus is supposed to say things that apply to more than one thing. I believe that the woodcutter applies under time because it is one of those characters who only shows up once and then vanishes and so does what they say. I believe that the beggar woman represents death in the play. She can be seen as death by the way she is portrayed and described. She is seen wearing a big black cloak and being hunched over, which to me seems like an old person who is feeling ill and is on their way towards death or leading to bad things such as death. The moon stands for time. The moon is brought to be time by the way it is described. The moon is always moving slowly which can represent time going by; because as we all know time goes by very slowly.   
2.  What happens when the runaway couple are caught?
Once the runaway couple is caught bad things are to come. Two men are after one woman, which in my perspective never ends well. They end up fighting brutally over her and they both die, leaving the Bride all by her lonesome. They try to not be separated and say that they will not be separated unless he is dead. This applies to the theme of passion, passion is shown through the love that the Bride and Leonardo have for each other when they run off together and how they feel like they must be together and will be until death tears them apart.
3.  What happens to the Mother after the death of her son?
After the death of her son the Mother seems almost like she is better off. She is at peace know that all of her conflicts with everyone are settled, she may now live on knowing that she does not have to worry about her son being harmed because he is dead as is the rest of her family. This applies to the theme of death in the play and how everyone succumbs to it.  

4.  At least three significant lines of imagery
"She wears a turn-of-the-century black dress, with flowers at the hip, a long train covered with pleated gauze and heavy lace"(53). I know that this is a wedding gown but is it just me or does it seem like it stands for death a bit since it is black? I believe this could tie into it because her marrying him and wearing this dress eventually leads to the death of both of the men. The black can also stand for the Duende or inner spirit, or passion that is inside her that is showing through the wedding dress and getting married.
When I think of flowers I see it as more a feminine thing, "and the crown of orange blossoms in her hair"(53) a bride is supposed to wear a crown of orange blossoms, I think that this applies to the theme of gender roles when a women is in ritual or needed to do a specific thing.
"The coffers open, and clean white sheets are waiting upon the bedroom floor for bodies of men whose throats have been torn"(83). I think that this imagery by the Beggar Woman goes directly towards the theme of death. The coffers, like giant chests can stand for coffins which represents burial of the dead. The White sheets can describe the reason for the death and the death beds. And the throat torn represents the cut throats from the fights of the two men the Bridegroom and Leonardo.
5.  What elements of a tragedy does Lorca incorporate in Blood Wedding?
Lorca incorporates the element of catharsis when the mother comes to peace at the end of the book after all things have come to peace and her enemy one of the Felix's is dead. Tragedy is also seen in the fact that the one of the main characters (Bridegroom) starts off well and then his fate turns towards worse events, this must always happen in a tragedy. Another aspect of tragedy that shows up is suffering. Multiple people are in misery in the play. I think of the Bride because she could not be with her love, Leonardo for the same reason and then the Bridegroom because he could not fight for the Bride well enough. Also it is a tragedy because it is a somewhat enjoyable play to read and that it is not intolerable in the fact of being too sad, gruesome or further that direction.