How does the set change between acts and what effect does the set have on the atmosphere?
Between the acts in Blood Wedding, and even the scenes within the acts the set changes progressively from rather cheerful to eerie. In Act 1 scene 1, the room is yellow and that is all that Lorca notes for the setting. For most, yellow can be identified as a rather cheerful with little negative connotations. The purpose of a yellow room is that in the beginning of his play is he is just setting the stage, presenting the idea of a wedding. The yellow would lead a person to believe that the wedding would go as planned, inclining towards a happy ending. However, the audience soon finds out that a happy wedding is not the story of this play. From act 1 scene 3, to act 2 scene 3, the story takes place in various parts of the brides cave home. A cave home itself sounds moderately dark in comparison to a yellow room, and just as the atmosphere gets darker so does the plot. The darkening of the atmosphere helps in deepening the dark mood Lorca intended to create with the plot line. Next the play takes place in a forest, and that is where the two men die and is probably one of the darker scenes in the play. The atmosphere of a play can impact how deeply an audience feels in the same way that the cinematography of movies today helps in extending the mood created by the men creating the movie.
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