Blood Wedding Journal #3

I am not certain weather this play constitutes tragedy or not. As opposed to tragic, it seemed chaotic. It was not things happening outside of a persons control, but seemingly random acts that were preformed well within peoples control. Why did the bride marry the bridegroom? She should have ran away with Leonardo beforehand. Called off the wedding. If she didn't want to get married, it seems like the mother also didn't want her to get married, and she should have then called the wedding off. This is not tragic but stupidity and lack of foresight that created an unhappy situation.

To me this play raises the question of who is to blame. The bride? The bridegroom? Leonardo? I think that Lorca leaves this unclear intentionally. Possibly, who is to blame that brings about these unhappy situations doesn't matter. Perhaps they are inevitable. If the rise of these situations in bound to happen, then it doesn't matter who gave rise to them. Or possibly it is a combination of people, one act by one person and one act by another person combine to make a third person act a certain way. This however, doesn't matter if one way or another the unhappiness will come.