Blood Wedding Journal 1

Since there are so few words in the play, I looked at the different parts of the play as symbols. There is a contrast between the bridegroom's and the bride's homes and families. The bridegroom comes from a vineyard where there is fertile soil, and the crops are thought of as luxurious and also make vine. The bride lives on a farm too, but the soil is very bad, and they are hardly able to grow hemp. Hemp is not thought of as luxurious like grapes are. It does not need much water or nutrients to grow like grapes.

Another thing I noticed was the mother's obsession over weapons. When the bridegroom asks for a knife to cut some grapes with, she becomes upset and goes off about the death of her husband and son. This happens frequently, and she cannot seem to let go. She is the only one with anything against weapons that we have seen so far.