Blood Wedding- Journal #2

In Blood Wedding, one of the archetypes that reoccurs throughout the story is the horse. Lorca very frequently describes the horse as wounded, and having a frozen mane. The horse is then used with the silver dagger, water and blood in context. I think that Lorca uses the horse as a symbol for either Leonardo or the Bridegroom. The horse is described as having the silver dagger which ends up killing Leonardo and the Bridegroom down by the river, also mentioned with the horse, and then the horse is described as taking a sip of the blood water from the river and then crying because it didn't want the blood water. I think that this foreshadows death. I think that Lorca embraces this archetype throughout the play to keep the audience on their toes. This could also be used to establish the duende he felt that he was laking by trying to connect to the everyday life of the audience.