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Themes in Lorca's Blood Wedding

hen the Mother's husband was killed, the Mother thinks of the murder as having happened yesterday. She will never relinquish the depth of passionate feeling that the loss of her husband and firstborn son caused, though she suppresses it for the sake of supporting the "done thing," or socially conventional wedding. In anticipation of wedded bliss in an organized social environment, there are certain things that one cannot say because decorum must be maintained. The Bridegroom's Mother adopts a Stoic demeanor in company, which may prevent an absolute outburst against Leonardo Felix and all who are aligned with the Felixes despite what is clearly an excess of internalized subjective passion about her loss. Equally, however, this demeanor prevents expression of feeling, and unexpressed feeling, just like unsatisfied passion, can lead to negative action. This would go far to explain why the Mother does not exactly jump for joy when going with her son to pay the pro forma call to the Bride's father to request the girl's hand. Indeed, of all the characters, only the Bridegroom and the Bride's Father anticipate the wedding without suspicion.

The irony of the Mother's situation is almost directly paralleled in the irony of the figure of her presumed enemy: Leonardo, who has made a bad marital choice, for obscure reasons (perhaps inconvenient geography, perhaps a lover's spat with the Bride) marrying the wrong cousin, and despite enjoying the trappings of hearth, home, and that all-important familial attribute, a firstborn son, pining for the girl he left behind. Leonardo is implicated as a womanizer because he is so often absent from home, but the Wife, whom Leonardo appears to have married on the rebound, is mistaken about the shape of his infidelity. It turns out that he rides his horse to the bedroom window of the Bride--not to touch or even to reveal his presence, but just to be near her.

The Bride, for her part, clings to the memory o...

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