Blood Wedding.

The moon and the Beggar woman are very symbolic. There is a great sense of evil surrounding the moon and the Beggar woman. They emphasise points or peoples feelings and they add to Lorca’s idea of poetic drama. For example, the mother has a great hate towards weapons such as knives and guns, obviously as she has lost her son and husband.

The woodcutters talk to the moon and they say, “O evil moon! Leave the dark bough for their love!”

. adds to the romantic side of the play and emphasises how they feel about each other. They also speak to each other in metaphorical terms, as do some of the other characters when they are speaking.

Lorca also uses repetition a lot to emphasise something.

Lorca was also interested in music and rhythm within his theatre and this is apparent in Blood Wedding. He does this well in the forest scene when the moon comes out and starts talking.

“The knife! The knife!”

“No we can’t be done with it!”

Lorca’s use of surrealism and imagery gives the play a slightly magical tone which I like. So to accentuate the idea of her hate for these things she is always talking about it. I think that Lorca wanted them to symbolise death, and the whole idea of it. When the mother-in-law is singing to the child to go to sleep, it is very rhythmic and stylised.

The bride says to Leonardo,

“And helplessly I follow you

A straw blown on the wind”

She describes herself as a straw blown on the wind which means she can’t help following Leonardo just like the wind is too overpowering for the straw.