Dear Señor Lorca,
I really liked reading your play Blood Wedding. I thought the lullaby
scene was especially interesting. The first time I read it I was extremely
confused. I had absolutely no idea what it meant. However, I read it a second
time, and it began to make some sense. Then, reading it the third time I had an
epiphany. I realized how brilliant it was. Perhaps you would find my
interpretation incorrect, for I read the perspective of another director who
had a completely different take on it. Yet, I thought my interpretation had
some merit. In this scene, I observed that you set the scene of the room as
pink. I found this to be very interesting because the seemingly cheerful pink
proves a juxtaposition to the actually depressing nature of the lullaby. I also
found it ironic that you decided to make the scene be a lullaby being sung to a
child, when the actual meaning of the lullaby is actually quite dark. In
addition, I noticed that you switched the lines of the wife and mother-in-law
from the first to the second part. I thought this was effective because then
the audience could see that the roles of the characters were changing as the
well-being of the child was changing. I would like to congratulate for this
scene. You had some very effective lines that really enhanced the scene. For
example, you used this to employ the symbol of the horse for the first time. I
although I interpreted the horse as death in this scene, others find it to be
symbolic of passion. However, I think it is also important to note that it is
the horse that carries Leonardo to his death. He and the bride escape on the
horse, and that is the reason he dies. So bravo there! It’s brilliant
foreshadowing that I only realized after I had finished the play. I love in
literature when the author has foreshadowing earlier in the work that readers
don’t even realize until the work has ended. I congratulate you on being able
to use that without actually giving away the outcome of the play. Also, I
applaud your ability to tie the symbol of water into this scene. They say blood
is thicker than water, and this scene showed that idea. The stallion wouldn’t
drink the water because it was bleeding. Usually when people are sick, they are
supposed to drink a lot of water. But when they die, they cannot drink anymore
water, so that was another aspect of the scene that was very well portrayed.
Although this scene is fantastic, it also raises some problems for me. As I
previously stated, I find the horse to represent death in this scene. However,
in other parts of the play it represents passion. Is this to say that passion
leads to death? I think that issue needs to be cleared up more. Also, this
scene seems particularly depressing because the wife is losing her only child,
and later in the play Leonardo dies, so it seems to say that death leaves her
all alone. However, on the way to the wedding, the wife reveals that she is
pregnant again. Therefore, this scene confuses me because it makes it seem
like she is all alone, and although the death of her child is horrendous, she
will also have another life coming to bring renewed joy. So the wife’s life is
not totally rife with death as it seems. Thank you for taking the time to read
my lead (even though you are dead). I
really did enjoy the lullaby scene. In fact, I enjoyed your whole play, it was
quite an entertaining read.
Sincerely,
Hali
McKinley Lester
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