Journal #5 Blood Wedding

Lorca uses the father as an archetype of wanting the best for his daughter. During that time, a father saw a woman's life best with her husband. When she gets married, she makes her entire family happy because they can ensure that she will have a better life with her husband and kids. And so the father plays a man that thinks about only the best attributes of his daughter, so that he can increase her chances of getting married. He is stereotypical as to the man of the house that gives his order, yet wants the best for his own family, especially his daughter. When mother and the bridegroom arrived to his house, the bride did not come until she was ordered by her dad and this is an archetype because it shows the respect given to the dad and how she obeyed her dad until he ordered her to come in. The father is the one that gives the order and therefore should be respected. He even tells his daughter not to be serious because she will soon be her mother and this is an archetype of traditional roles of the father since he wants the best for his family and make sure that his daughter does what her husband's family wants her to do. Another archetype of the father is the idea that he wants his family and the bridegroom and his family to live next to each other and this is a very traditional archetype since families at that time wanted to always be close to each other and enjoy having a big family bonding with all the members together. I think Lorca rejects this archetype just because the bride did not really have a big say on whether she wants to marry someone or not, which created the big tragedy in the end. He probably thinks that the parents take on the role of being the ones with the final decision, but the person who is getting married should be the one that says yes or no, not the parents.