Lorca Journal 5

Themes:
Death
Fate
Dreams
Desires vs. Society's expectations
Marriage
A wife's role
What makes something "good".
Passion

1.  The symbolism of the woodcutter, beggar woman  and moon.
The beggar woman symbolizes death. She is described as a "great bird" and a "beggar woman" , meaning she is powerful yet unnoticed. People try not to pay attention the beggars on the street, they try to avoid contact with the beggars as much as possible, just like death: people try to avoid death. The moon symbolizes time and stillness. The moon appears during the night time, when people sleep, and when people are resting from a constantly moving passion. Also, if morning represents a new beginning, then the night time represents an ending.
2.  What happens when the runaway couple are caught?
The Bride and Leonardo are eventually caught by the Bridesgroom. Simultaneously, the Bridesgroom and Leonardo stab eachother in the chest, forshadowed by the Mother in Act I.
3.  What happens to the Mother after the death of her son?
The Mother blames the Bride for the cause of the Bridegroom and Leonardo's death.
4.  At least three significant lines of imagery
"Two men killed each other over love. With a knife, with a little knife. That scarcely fits the hand, but penetrates precisely through the astonished flesh" (Lorca 104).
"Over the golden flowe, They bring the dead from the stream" (Lorca 99)
"Hour of blood" (Lorca 77).
"What of it? Better to be dead with no blodd than alive with it festering." (Lorca 79)
"I hear the crickets, the frogs, the ambush of the night" (Lorca 79)
5.  What elements of a tragedy does Lorca incorporate in Blood Wedding?