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key quotes blood wedding 1.

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‘the knife, the knife…damm all of them and the scoundrel who invented them’   show
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show Act one, scene 1. diction of weapons listing  
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‘I’d like you to be a woman…and the two of us would embroider etchings and little woollen dogs.   show
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‘that’s what I like, men to be men, wheat wheat’.   show
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show mother, supersition. mentioning bride's name  
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show mother urging bridegroom from going after them, act 2, scene 2  
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show mother, poor as no family. End of Act 3  
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‘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.   show
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show bride wishing she was a man. Act 1, scene 3  
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show bride Act 2, scene 1. mother in dessert  
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servant: theres pleanty of pleasure bride: or plenty of bitterness’   show
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‘Dark clouds. A cold wind here inside me. Doesn’t everyone feel it?’   show
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‘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.’   show
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Take advantage of a girl abandoned in a desert. But I’ve got my pride’   show
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‘I’ll shut myself away with my husband, and I’ll love him above anything else’   show
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‘And it drags me along, and I know that I’m drowning, but I still go on’   show
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‘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’   show
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show brides realisation, end of act 2, scene 1 (paralleling wedding song)  
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show bride, telling girls difficulty of marriage (Act 2, scene 2)  
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show bride, telling leonardo to hang out wedding sheets. Act 3, scene 1  
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‘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’   show
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‘the other ones arm dragged me like a wave from the sea’   show
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show Act 1, scene 2. leonardo speaking of bride's flightyness  
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show leonardo, lack of care for horse. Like eloping, they don’t think of consequences, completely driven by instincts. Act 1, scene 2  
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‘but two oxen and a broken-down shack are almost nothing. That’s the thorn’ (money got in the way of love’.   show
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‘Because I wanted to forget and I put a wall of stone between your house and mine’   show
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show lack of control of actions, driven by desire. horse. Act 3, scene 1  
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show desire as poisonous force, act 3, scene 1  
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‘and I’m not a fault the fault belongs to the earth’   show
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show wife realising already thrown aside. Act 2, scene 1  
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show wife, informing people they'd run away. lightning. Act 2, scene 2  
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show father, not stealing fruit. Act 1, scene 3. irony - the fruit (the bride) is stolen. and people do pass.  
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show woodcutter,putrid blood. Act 3, scene 1  
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