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and shotguns..an pistols…even the tiniest knife…and mattocks and pitchforks
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Blood Wedding quotes
key quotes blood wedding 1.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| ‘the knife, the knife…damm all of them and the scoundrel who invented them’ | Act one, scene 1. mother |
| and shotguns..an pistols…even the tiniest knife…and mattocks and pitchforks | Act one, scene 1. diction of weapons listing |
| ‘I’d like you to be a woman…and the two of us would embroider etchings and little woollen dogs. | Act one, scene 1. I want you to be a girl (mother) |
| ‘that’s what I like, men to be men, wheat wheat’. | Act 1, scene 1. mother - men stick to genders |
| ‘but even so, when I mention her name its as if they were pounding my head with a stone’ | mother, supersition. mentioning bride's name |
| Go! After them! (he goes with two young men) No. Don’t go! Those people quickly and well..But Yes! Go on! I’ll follow. | mother urging bridegroom from going after them, act 2, scene 2 |
| Me so poor. So poor! A woman without a single son she can hold to her lips’ (riches but no family’ | mother, poor as no family. End of Act 3 |
| ‘it’s not my arm. It’ my brother’s arm and my father’s and my whole dead family’s. and its got such strength. | bridegroom, carrying out action on behalf of family. not in control of arm. Act 3, scene 1 |
| ‘Haven’t I done a mans work? I wish I was one’ | bride wishing she was a man. Act 1, scene 3 |
| ‘My mother came from a place where there were lots of trees. From a fertile land….she wasted away here’ | bride Act 2, scene 1. mother in dessert |
| servant: theres pleanty of pleasure bride: or plenty of bitterness’ | bitterness, conversation about marriage with servant. Act 2, scene 1 |
| ‘Dark clouds. A cold wind here inside me. Doesn’t everyone feel it?’ | act 2, scene 1. pathetic fallacy of bride |
| ‘but it makes my blood boild that you should come to watch me and spy on my wedding and make insinuations about the orange-blossom.’ | insinuations about the orange blossom. Act 2, scene 1 |
| Take advantage of a girl abandoned in a desert. But I’ve got my pride’ | act 2, scene 1 - advantage of girl in dessert |
| ‘I’ll shut myself away with my husband, and I’ll love him above anything else’ | Act 2, scene 1 . determined to love husband |
| ‘And it drags me along, and I know that I’m drowning, but I still go on’ | Act 2, scene 1. Bride, not in control. knowing its leading her to trouble |
| ‘and I know I’m mad, and I know that my heart’s putrified from holding out, and here I am, soothed by the sound of his voice’ | Act 2, scene 1. Bride - admitting her hearts putfrified. |
| ‘Let the bride awake’ | brides realisation, end of act 2, scene 1 (paralleling wedding song) |
| it’s a difficult step to take’ | bride, telling girls difficulty of marriage (Act 2, scene 2) |
| ‘take me from fair to fair, An insult to descent women,so that people can see me With my wedding sheets diplayed’ | bride, telling leonardo to hang out wedding sheets. Act 3, scene 1 |
| ‘I want her to know that I’m clea, that even though I’m mad they can bury me and not a single man will have looked at himself in the whiteness of my breasts’ | Act 3, scene 2. bride telling mother she's pure |
| ‘the other ones arm dragged me like a wave from the sea’ | strength pulling bride. force of nature. Act 3, scene 2 |
| ‘perhaps she’s right –that one needs watching | Act 1, scene 2. leonardo speaking of bride's flightyness |
| if he dies, he dies! | leonardo, lack of care for horse. Like eloping, they don’t think of consequences, completely driven by instincts. Act 1, scene 2 |
| ‘but two oxen and a broken-down shack are almost nothing. That’s the thorn’ (money got in the way of love’. | money, thorn. leonardo telling bride. Act 2, scene 1 |
| ‘Because I wanted to forget and I put a wall of stone between your house and mine’ | Act 3, scene 1. leonardo tells of steps taken to try and keep himself away |
| ‘But I’d get on the horse and the horse would go to your door’ | lack of control of actions, driven by desire. horse. Act 3, scene 1 |
| and our dream began to fill my flesh with poisonous weeds’ | desire as poisonous force, act 3, scene 1 |
| ‘and I’m not a fault the fault belongs to the earth’ | leonardo, act 3 scene 1. not his fault, fate dictated by nature |
| ‘one thing I do know. I’ve already been thrown aside…my mothers fate was the same’ | wife realising already thrown aside. Act 2, scene 1 |
| ‘they’ve run away! They’ve run away! Her and Leonardo. On horseback! Arms around one another! Like a flash of lightning! | wife, informing people they'd run away. lightning. Act 2, scene 2 |
| ‘since noone passes by they don’t steal the fruit and you can sleep easy’ | father, not stealing fruit. Act 1, scene 3. irony - the fruit (the bride) is stolen. and people do pass. |
| ‘better to be a bloodless corpse than alive and your blood putrid’ | woodcutter,putrid blood. Act 3, scene 1 |
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