Journal #6- Blood Wedding

I think the Bride is the one that is miserable in the entire play, because she is set to be married to someone who she somewhat loves, but is still conflicted on whether she loves him or Leonardo. She has this inner conflict between herself on doing what is right or what she wants. If she marries the bridegroom, she knows she will make everyone happy, but she won't be happy yet will force herself to be happy. But she also knows that if she runs away with Leonardo, she will make him and herself happy, yet make everyone else miserable. The Bride expresses her misery when she is with the maid. We see the first and most clear signs of her misery when the maid talks to her and is getting her ready for the wedding, but she does not seem to be in a good mood. Her misery was also clear when she was talking to Leonardo in Act II scene I. She expresses her misery with Leonardo in the form of constantly remembering her past. The Bride desires expressing her feelings towards the other characters, but she feels confined within this society where she should respect her parents desires and do as she is told. She does not want to make her family look bad in front of the rest of the society, therefore she hides her feelings, until she was pushed and somewhat forced to express her desires in the end with Leonardo, which she ended up regretting in the end. She was unsure of what she wants, and therefore she expressed her feeling in the wrong way and at the wrong time.