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?
I feel that through Lorca giving his characters archetypes for names he is showing both a standard for society as well as mocking societal norms through their generic names. Some of the names he chose were; mother, bridegroom, bride, wife of Leonardo, and father. I feel that one role the names play is to provide emphasis to gender roles by placing men and women as solely a "mother" or "bridegroom" it forces Lorca's characters to take on their roles in society to the point that it defines them. Specially with being a mother, it could be showing the general mother- nervous to marry her son off, wanting the best, irrational fears, but overall embraces societal norms of domesticity. With the mother specifically, I'm not sure as to whether Lorca is criticizing the mother archetype, or embracing it because even after the interactive orals, I do not know how he felt about gender roles of the time. With giving the bride her title I believe it was done to mock society, and add more emphasis to her running away with Leonardo, rather than getting married to one man as the typical bride of the time did. It's interesting that it wouldn't choose to give her an actual name as he did with Leonardo because she's named "Bride" but she never does get married. Though, with both female characters who are almost foils to each other because of their views on loyalty to one man, neither the mother nor the bride end up happy. The mother loses her son in the end, and the bride loses her life. I feel also that in by providing the brides lover, Leonardo, with the only name in the play more attention is drawn to him, the affair, and in turn the archetypes for names.
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