Love, Passion, and Control
In Blood Wedding, Federico Garcia Lorca scrutinizes the nature of love and the ways in which passionate romance can affect a person’s control over his or her life. In his treatment of the Bride and the Bridegroom’s relationship, Lorca presents the audience with a seemingly blissful and logical pairing, one that should—for all intents and purposes—bring happiness to both partners. Although the Bride is clearly less invested in the relationship than her fiancé…
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History and Fate
Blood Wedding is a play about the ways in which history repeats itself. As early as the first scene, the Bridegroom’s mother expresses her unwillingness to forget the past, saying that she will never stop talking about how the Felix family murdered her husband and firstborn son. These travesties happened many years ago, but she refuses to move on, evidently worried that the bad blood between her family and their enemies will resurface. Throughout…
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Violence and Revenge
In Blood Wedding, Lorca studies the allure of violence, investigating the odd way that humans are drawn to acts of revenge and retribution. By telling a tale about two families that have long been at war with one another, the playwright invites audience members to question the motivations that lie behind the various acts of violence fueling the feud. The Bridegroom’s mother, for her part, seems to understand the utter vapidity of…
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Ownership and Unhappiness
The majority of the characters in Blood Wedding invest themselves in the importance of ownership. This is evident in the way the Bridegroom, his mother, and the Bride’s father speak about land, a topic that consumes them and overshadows more important matters. Indeed, their preoccupation with the ownership of land and material items even informs the way they approach the institution of marriage, seeing it as more of a transaction than a…
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