Review of Lorca's Blood Wedding

This play was hard to understand at first because of the translation of Spanish to English. Plus it confused me even more when the moon started talking in Act 111, Scene 1. After the group discussion today, I understand the significance of the knife and the begger woman in the play. I think that the begger woman symbolizes death in the play and it is like she is fate for the two men. But like the Chapter 3 in Theory Toolbox called "Reading" we have to read more into the play itself and understand the meanings of the words you are reading.

Not only does the reader have to understand the meaning of the words, they also have to understand the contexts, according to The Theory Toolbox, in what way is the word presented in the text. I think that the context of the this play is the language that it was orginally written in. First of all, the play is written in the country of Spain, so they have different values and morals than Americans do. Also, we are reading this play in the 2000s but the play was written in the 1930s so there are different contexts and different meanings between the decades.

Dealing with the mother and her moral of killing someone, she may have wanted to kill the family who killed hers, but since it wasn't right for women to do that, she had to find someone to do it for her. Accroding to standards back then it was wrong for women to kill, but it was alright for men to fight or kill someone, more like to say its in there blood. So when she gives her son the knife at the end to chase Leonardo and the bride she was telling him it was alright to kill the enemy, the ones who took her family away. She wanted avengence towards the family and if it meant her son being illed in the process then so be it.