Journal #5 Examine how Lorca characterize the archetypes of the play. Does Lorca embrace or reject the archetype? What is the effect of the characterization?
Lorca uses the idea of old-fashioned marriage among the upper class that parents of both of the bride and groom should be in agreement if they should marry as an archetype. In Blood Wedding during these scenes the father and mother meet to come to an agreement and plan the wedding. This is an old-fashioned type of ideal that Lorca shows throughout this scene. I think Lorca rejects this archetype because in the end the couple ends up never getting married. Bride escapes with another man and they never showed that they truly loved each other. Also he would reject this idea because he was embarrassed of being part of the upper class and this is seen as an upper class tradition. The effect of this characterization is that it shows a distant relationship between all of the characters(which is also shown through the motif of distance).
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