Blood Wedding #5

In act II, the setting is either the bride's veranda in scene one or the exterior of her home in scene two.  Everything is "as hard as a landscape on a piece of ceramic folk art"(58).  I find it interesting that Lorca refers to the Bride's home as a cave.  I have a hard time believing that she really does live in one, and I'm thinking that part of Lorca's intentions may have been lost in translation with this.  Either that, or Lorca is trying to make the situation just a tad bit unbelieveable in order to make the whole thing more surreal.  The shift between act II and act III is interesting because the setting in the first scene of act III is very organic.  It's a murky forest, which creates something of a gloomy mood in the play.  The setting being almost eerie works here because it adds to the craziness of the moon and death plotting to spill blood onto the earth.  I also feel like it gives an almost surreal, romanticized atmosphere.  We learned that romanticism plays a lot in to nature when we were researching Ibsen, and considering that Lorca was trying to rebel against Ibsen's views by writing this play I think the use of nature would make sense here.