Lorca #6

Act I.
1. "I know she's a good girl. That's true isn't it? Quiet, hardworking. She bakes her bread and sews her skirts" (8). 
This has a connection to gender roles and how women were viewed in society, their role in the home, etc. She talks about her being "good" which could also connect to the Catholic Church.
2. "One man, some children- and a wall six feet thick, to shut out everything else." 
Gender roles again, and the place of women. Also the idea of marriage and it's significance or lack thereof.
3. "The blood was flowing
 Stronger than water." 
This image of water connects to Surrealism. The artistic movement that Lorca was apart of. And can connect to the idea of the "id" or subconscious.
Act II.
1. "And every time I think about it, there is a new guilt that swallows up the old. But there is always guilt". (47). 
This could be a connection to the Catholic Church because a big part of their doctrine is trying to live without sinning and repenting your sins, and confession so that ties into guilt.
2. "But they carry off the dead and you must keep silent. Or people will criticize." (60). 
I thought this connected to political aspects, and the Spanish Civil War because it's people feeling like all this unfairness is happening and all this death but they can't speak up.
3. "It has come one again- the our of blood! Two sides! you with your sand me with mine!" (77). 
Another reference to the Civil War because it could suggest the splitting of families and friends. And suggest the brutality and intensity of the war that it was able to divide even families.
Act III.
1. "The world is wide-everyone can live in it." 
I thought that this could connect to Lorca's sexuality and also the feeling of an outcast. The line really jumped out at me as social commentary on Lorca's part as far as judgement goes. And that the world is big enough for all kinds of people, regardless of how you are and everyone should be able to live at peace.
2. "They both fell dead [...] that's how it was. Nothing more. It was just." (99). 
This seems like a connection to war and how there really wasn't anything more, just a lot of death. Also it's interesting how he insinuates that it was fair because both sides died.
3. "Cover your face with a veil. 
Your children are children of yours, 
Nothing else matters to you. 
you must place a cross made of ashes
On the bed where his pillow has been." 
This sounds like a possible reference to the church and also gender roles a little bit because this woman just had her husband and the father of her son and "nothing matters".