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The language used in 'Blood Wedding'
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The language used in 'Blood Wedding' is extremely significant in fully understanding the emotion and atmosphere that Lorca is trying to portray. The first symbolic use of language in the play is the names used for the different characters, instead of giving each character a personal name and identity, Lorca gave them archetypal and symbolic qualities, for example the mother, the bride and the wife. This therefore makes the one character with a name differentiated and individualised, almost cut off from the other characters, in a league of his own. Leonardo is a greatly symbolic name, suggesting the strength of a lion, a sense of fire and passion is created, and there is also the thought of the Spanish meaning of the name, which are lion and I burn. These meanings that you get just from the name and the Spanish meanings have a strong significant link to the building...
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