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Sam Bateman 11 W 1 "Examine the function of knives, flowers, water and blood in the play" The novel "Blood Wedding" by Federico Garcia Lorca makes use of imagery to a large extent, but none more so than the images of knives, flowers, water and blood. Whilst at the start of the play the Mother is completely obsessed with knives, the wedding is almost centered around flowers, water symbolizes life and cleanliness and blood for the family ties and the life force of the people. Knives. The age old symbol of death. Lorca uses this imagery to great extent and the knife in this play symbolizes death, hatred and murder. At first, we are introduced to the knife through the mother, and her bitter ramblings "The knife, the knife! Damn the knife, damn all knives, damn the devil who created knives."1 This is because her husband and second son where murdered by the...

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