The youth in the play represent the desires of young women
at that time, but without them knowing of the circumstances or the effort in
takes in the decision of getting married. Lorca tries to show the innocence of
them as youths who don’t think of anything but their future life, believing it
will be great and accomplished easily. But Lorca contrasts them to the
Bride to show that once a girl grows up, she will
face hard decisions. Everyone is innocent when they are young, but as they grow
up and experience new things, they change and become aware of the circumstances
and even become conflicted on what the right decisions is, which the girls do
not understand yet, but the Bride is in that sort of situation. Lorca also uses
the youth to bring in this excitement and represent the view on marriage as
seen by society at that time. He seems to do this to show that since they were
little, girls were taught that marriage is the road to take whether now or
sometime in the future. He creates this desire that they have wanted, but uses
the Bride to show the struggle and break the desire that those girls are
dreaming about and push them into reality so that he moves them away from this dream that they have been taught for all their life, and understand the actual things that happen. Lorca uses the youth in the play to represent the theme of innocence that is portrayed and whether the characters are truly innocent or they all have dark desires within them. He also uses it to represent the theme of false hope and what is desired versus what can actually be achieved.
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