Blood Wedding Journal 2

To what extent would you agree that plot should be valued more highly than style in the work. In your answer you should refer to two or three works you have studied.

In Blood Wedding, the style is not as important to the work as the actual plot. Whether or not the work was written in a poetic style the story would remain the same. Lines such as the lines spoken by the Maid on page 58, "Turning-the wheel was turning, And the water was flowing. The wedding approaches! Let the branches spread open And the moon embellish Her white veranda!", while effective in conveying that the wedding is about to start, could have also been effectively expressed with a line like, "The wedding is starting." While this style conveys a sort of beauty in the beginning of the wedding, simple dialogue would have given this message and kept the story going. The way in which this message is conveyed is not nearly as important as its purpose in facilitating the story.

The tone and style in the writing could change, but the general integrity of the story is preserved. This is the important part in a work. While writing style can be the difference in whether or not someone wants to read a story, it can also be overlooked. Take the best-selling Twilight series, for example. Some would argue this series is very poorly written, that the style is unappealing; however, this book has become one of the widest read series of this generation. This is because the story is appealing. The same could be said for books like Oedipus, Wild Duck, and Blood Wedding. These stories are enthralling enough to carry the reader without it mattering whether they are written in one style or another. The plot is the important part, not the style.

In Oedipus, while the use of the chorus is useful in conveying the feelings of the masses throughout the story, a simple narrative would have served the same purpose. In the Wild Duck, the slow revealing of past events throughout the story is interesting in the development of the plot, the interest in the story's events would remain if they were displayed chronologically. This is why I think that it is the plot that matters, not the story. Differing writing styles may change the way the story is perceived, but the actually story itself is what matters and what people read for.