Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Blood Wedding-#4
The knife is a very obvious symbol that is used in the Blood Wedding. The mother rants about how much she hates knives and how bad they are. She says "Damn all of them!" and later talking about knives says "Anything that can cut into a man's body!" (6) From this quote I think the knife can be an actual thing but I think it can also be something emotional. Like the issues with Leonardo and the groom. Another symbol that I saw was water. Water gives life to everything especially their land. "The children who take water out to the reapers are black from the sun" (16). Water is vital to survival and ultimately your social status. The more water you have the better your land is and the more money you have.
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I like your ideas about the knife, and think that you could develop that into something more such as the knife being an emotional weapon that tears families apart..etc.
ReplyDeleteYour knife analysis is an interesting concept. It is definitely possible that besides causing the actual death of her husband, the knife is metaphorically tearing into the mother herself.
ReplyDeleteYou looked at the symbol of the knife at a different persepective than I did which made me look at that symbol differently and also consider the emotion the knife brings. After reading what you said about water, are you saying that water is key to survival, and wealth, too?
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