Blood Wedding Journal 1

Readers are attracted to moments of intensity in a writer's work. By that means and with what effect have writer's in your study offered heightened emotional moments designed to arrest the reader's attention?

In Blood Wedding, the play is opened up with uncertainty. No names are used for the characters, only titles. This starts the play off with an odd tone. Mother begins a rant about the death of her husband and their eldest son within the first ten lines of the book. It becomes very clear that they have been murdered. This grabs the reader's attention immediately. The anger that Mother feels creates the desire to get the details on this situation. This is similar in Oedipus. The play opens up with the city of Thebes in turmoil. This attracts the reader immediately. The suspense in the beginning of both of these plays draws the reader in and causes them to be more invested in the story. This was the authors' purpose in writing these moments into the plays.

In Blood Wedding, the strained or mysterious relationships between the play's characters create moments of intensity that draw the reader in. Mother's hatred for the Felixes and the mysterious relationship between the Bride and Leonardo invoke curiosity about these relationships and what they could mean for the characters. It becomes clear that lies and deceit are present in these relationships and mankind's natural tendency to want to figure everything out. This desire to see the resolution of the play keeps the reader or viewer going through the work. This is also seen in Wild Duck. The beginning with Hjalmar and Gregers and the elder Werle makes the complicated nature of these relationships clear. This makes the reader want to keep reading.

The purpose of these moments is to make the reader feel emotions or desires causing them to become more invested in the book and keep reading. Lorca does this by displaying some of the complication in the character's relationships, exposing some of the lies and deceit present in the book, and showing some of the previous tragedy and anger in the character's lives.