Characters
Bernarda alba
Symbolism
Green dress: they were in mourning, green
White stallion
Black clothes: austure life bernarda alba lives , lack of colour in their lives
The white walls in the house: desire for it to be pure, they are the walls between her and the world
Class/ Patriarchy
Monotonous: Their lives are monotonous as where, regularity to the routines, oppressive silence
Symbolic of the virginity of her daughters
Flat Lighting : Same tim
Nymphs
Female creatures in greek mytholgy, who are sexulised
Names of characters
Matitio
Angustias
Anguish
Makes them archetepal
More of of the inner psychology
Bernarda
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Amelia
Industrious
Bernarda is alsways in black, symbolism or suggestive of the growing facism in europe
adela wears green, symbolises youth and vitaliry, opposing the restricitons placed on her , no i shant get used to it, (dailouge in act 1)
Fertility and vitality
vibrant world of instinct and passion
vitalily/ fertility
repressive world:
Worlds described through costumes
Insticnt / passion
Nature
Vibrant
Ferility
Repressive world
repressive world of social convention and tradition
Maria Josepha's Madness
The sheep that she carries
Setting
Inner room
Thick white walls
Arches
2nd innter room
White walls
Inner courtyard
Dining space,
White walls
Bernarda's house evokes the sense of improsonment
Drama of the women in the villages of spain, not only bernarda's house but also the other houese in the
Production and reception of text
Culture and society
Message of the text
Human truths
Social conerns