Blood Wedding- Journal #8

During the second act the plot mostly takes place within the house that the wedding guests are meeting and I believe they are on their way to the church where the wedding will be held when they learn that Leonardo and the Bride have run off. The setting in Act 3 begins in the forest that Leonardo and the Bride are hiding in from the people hunting them. In the second act the setting is mostly connected to the happiness of being married. Getting married is usually one of the happiest moments of a person's life because they are around the people that they love along with being with their future spouse. This creates a very happy and optimistic tone throughout the whole act. In the third act the tone completely changes to a more depressing tone. This is felt through the character of the moon. The moon and its light represents death and the loss of hope and this character along with others help contribute to the development of this tone. Some of the other characters that aid to this development is the Three Woodcutters, and the beggar women. The Beggar Women mainly foreshadows that death is an event that will occur later in the play which again helps develop this depressing tone in the third act. The three woodcutters I see equivalent to the moon because I believe that trees resemble hope and family within the play, and if this were the case then by cutting down the trees the woodcutters are trying to diminish this sense of hope createing a depressing tone within the third act compared the optimistic and happy tone that is felt within the second act.