Lorca Journal 4

1. The character that immediately jumps out at me about being miserable is the Bride. She is snappy and quick to tell people to leave her alone or to "be quiet!" (40). It seems as if the Bride expresses her misery whenever talk of the wedding comes up, and I am assuming this is because she still loves Leonardo, but feels as if she must marry the Bridegroom to protect her economic status. It seems that the Bride's fear of letting her family down and not protecting her economic status is holding her back from indulging in the "water", or her passions. Lorca depicts this when the Bride says "And I will shut myself up with my husband, whom I must love more than anything!" (47). It's obvious the Bride does not want to shut up herself up with her husband and this is shown through her word choice of "must".
Leonardo also appears to be miserable, but I believe this is because of the same reason as the Bride. He loves the Bride, which becomes blatantly obvious when he arrives at the wedding first and says "I got married. Now you get married!" (48). I think Lorca is trying to portray Leonardo's desperation and that he is basically saying that they were both forced into marriages. Since the beginning of the play, Leonardo has also been very snappish and sulky.

3. Lorca's use of youth in the Second Act is much more apparent than the first act. It's interesting how none of the children have names and they too are archetypes. Children are often stereotyped as being innocent, so Lorca could be using these archetypes to symbolize innocence. The scene that stood out to me most in Act Two was the scene in which the two little girls are asking the Bride who got the "pin" first. This stood out to me because traditionally at weddings, whoever gets the bouquet is the first to get married, so I assumed the same concept applied for the pins. I found it off that little, innocent girls were so eager to get married. Yet the Bride, who is supposed to be having the happiest day of life, is indirectly telling the girls that marriage is horrible. Lorca could be using youth to contrast the characters. Innocent children also have less self-control, so they could contrast with the older characters by indulging in their passions.