Generational Conflict, Gender Roles In The Play Blood Wedding

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Blood Wedding

Blood Wedding is a play that basically based on the generational conflict, gender roles, the cycle of life, physical and emotional isolation and humanity in nature. During the play each of themes are presented on each of the characters because it represents the description of them.Also, it explains how all these things are presented during that time, how the stereotypes of the people during that time is presented and how the beliefs and traditions change with the passage of the time.

At the beginning of the play we can be identified as the bridegroom and the mother had a problem about knives. The Mother cursed the person who created the knives because one member of the Felix’s family killed her son with a knife. The Mother cannot forget it and when the Bridegroom is going to the vineyards they had a discussion about it because she repeats to him every day about that problem.

Whatever, generational conflict can be present on each of the characters and it can be present the new …show more content…

As result of the death of the husband and the son the Mother becomes more isolated because we can identify when the neighbor mentions that mother only rarely leaves her own house to visit friends or do errands. Also, the emotional alienation in the Mother’s case, due to the murders of her husband and son because that affect a lot to her. Meanwhile, the characters in the play frequently discuss the isolation of the Bride’s farmhouse from the rest of the town and how far is everything for her . The emotional alienation in the Bride’s case, due to the pressure to marry because everybody was exited for the marriage of her and they repeat to her the same thing. Also, how Maid and Bridegroom pressure her with the orange blossoms because it represents the purity, chastity, innocence on the

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