Journal 9: Blood Wedding Themes

List of possible Themes for Blood Wedding:

In Blood Wedding, the author, Frederico Lorca, expresses the theme that...

• humans often desire most what they are unable to attain.
• As seen in the Bride and Leonardo and the Mother, the most. Even the Bridgroom shows this to some extent, by wanting the Bride who doesn't want him back.
• "wallowing" in misery can lead to destruction of yourself and others.
• Seen in the Bride and Leonardo and especially the Mother.
• one who has no family to love (and be loved by) is poor, no matter their material wealth.
• The Mother shows this and even says she is poor because she has no son. There's a lot of contrast between poor and rich throughout the play that could prove this theme.
• people are more compelled to break free from their given societal roles the more constraining their roles are.
• The Bride shows this most, because she is the one that people describe the most as being a certain way and she is the one who breaks the archetype most obviously.