Blood Wedding Journal 1:

Lorca's Blood Wedding, Act 1.

Lorca delves into a style unfamiliar to me, so this journal is for the purpose of clarifying Lorca's style of writing . The prevailing style of Blood Wedding is short, terse dialog, interjected with passionate thoughts and ideas expressed by the mother and other women. The men stick fast to simple words. The women delve deeper, and through this, Lorca suggest the difference between men and women; the capacity to see further? (extention of sight motif).

Bridegroom
"To cut them with."
Mother
"The knife! The Knife! Damn all of them! And the monster who invented them!"
Bridegroom
"Enough!"
Mother
"Anything that can cut into a man's body! A beautiful man, with life like a flower in his mouth, who goes out to the vineyards or to his own olive groves, because they are his, inherited . . ."
Bridegroom
"Mother, be quiet!"

In this passage, Lorca sets the son from mother. The bridegroom only relays the simple factual information such as the use of a knife to "cut them[grapes] with", but the Mother sees much more in the knife than the son, or perhaps she can remember more. She remembers and later refers to the knives, that the Felix family was involved with a knife that killed her husband. However, Lorca uses a female to expound on the life of a man. He says that man has "a flower in his mouth, who goes out to the vineyards or to his own olive groves". Here, Lorca points out the controlling nature of men through the assumption of everything belonging to the man, as in the personal olive groves and that this nature has been inherited. Contrastingly, the actual present male, the bridegroom, frowns upon this talk and wants to hush the female, once again showing the domineering tendencies of man. But, Lorca's females also are not for characterizing males. In this passage, Lorca immediately characterizes Mother. She is one who is lost in thoughts as shown in her constant tangents. She also, along with other females, manage to explore deeper into the truth of things.