Blood Wedding Journal 2

Symbols:

• Knife
• Weapons
• Flowers
• Vineyard
• Horse
• River

Archetypes:

Lorca seems to be accepting most archetypes presented so far in the text. Through the characterization of the Mother in the first few pages, I can come to the conclusion that Lorca views mothers as slightly controlling and clingy, as a mother should be, and frantic at times, like when she goes off on a tantrum when the Bridegroom asks for a knife to cut some grapes, "(Muttering as she looks for it) The knife! The knife! Damn all of them! And the monster who invented them!"(6) Unprovoked, the mother starts on a tangent of violence by including the word monster and damn, the bridegroom simply wanted to cut some grapes, and had no intention of using it for violence, yet the mother freaks out.

Lorca  seems to enjoy his take on neighbor-mother side-talk. The neighbor and mother chit chat for a few pages, just flitting from subject to subject like a hummingbird with flowers. I picture Lorca as almost cynically writing the script for the neighbor and mother, but that may just be me.