Blood Wedding #9

Journal #9: Create a list of themes that Lorca creates in the play.

• Family problems/feuds are passed down through the youth. 

This is a pretty obvious theme seeing as the hatred of the mother for the Felix family causes the death of her son and the other Felix brother. The son was trying to ease the mother's worries through the whole play because he was not as worried, but since his mother kept up her paranoia and hate it translated down to the sons life and eventually caused him to be killed.

• Past relationships only bring pain if you stay in touch with the person.

I thought this because of Leonardo and the Bride. When the bride has had no contact with Leonardo she is absolutely ready to marry the groom. After Leonardo contacts her however, she begins to have doubts. These doubts she begins to form eventually lead to her running away with Leonardo which results in the death of Leonardo and the death of the Groom, leaving the bride in despair.

• Those that are controlled are left ignorant to what is really going on.

I thought this because the son is heavily controlled by his mother, especially during the scene when the mother, father, groom, and bride all meet up. The fact that he is left ignorant is because he is being bossed about by his mother and because he is trying to please her, he becomes oblivious to the fact that the bride is slipping away from him. He is also so caught up in the lovey-dovey stuff that he loses sight of the true story, and that eventually leads to him losing his bride.