Which characters appear to be miserable int he play and why? When and how do the characters express their misery? What do the characters desire and what stops them from going after what each desires?
I would say that one main character that appears to be miserable in the play is the bride because she does not have the mentality to marry the groom. She is clearly not in love with him, and in love with Leonardo. Even more so, she feels more upset after they both die and she knows she is responsible for their deaths. I feel like Lorca hints at her desires for her to run way with Leonardo when he comes to see her before the wedding and they talk about how she came to his, so why wouldn't her be at hers. I feel that having Leonardo at her wedding makes it even harder for the bride to do something she already did not want to do. Then, at the end of the play once the two of them have died, in the last scene she is clearly a mess when talking to the mother. She feels terrible for having caused all this, and the mother is just coaxing her on, which leads the bride to end her misery and take her own life. I feel that she went forward with the marriage until the last minute because she knew that if she gave into her desires she would be letting down her family and breaking the rules of being woman that the mother mentions at the beginning of the play. At the end when she kills herself, I think that is her way of taking responsibility for her actions and trying to take disgrace away from her family for following her desires and running away with Leonardo.
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