Blood Wedding #6

Marriage should be out of love, not passion or obligation.

The bride does not truly love the groom, but rather feels obligated to marry him because of the pressure placed on her by her father, the maid, and the groom's mother.  She has a preconcieved notion that marriage means being locked away behind a six foot wall for one's entire life.  This idea isn't appealing to her, so she runs away with a man that she lusts after but can't have.  She ends up losing both of her options here, because neither of them give Bride feelings that constitute a marriage. 

Young people often don't think before they act, and this leads to their downfall.

When talking to the little girls before running away, both the bride and the children admit that they "don't know anything"(68).  This stood out to be because it put the bride, who is supposed to be a mature woman now that she is married, on the same level as the girls she is talking to.  The bride had no desire to be married, so she acted selfishly and ran away with Leonardo.  Her running away caused the death of her husband and her lover, and she felt much guilt after running away and after the two men died.  Her guilt (and even a desire for her own death) is a consequence of her actions that would not have happened if she had thought things through and not gotten married in the first place.  Maid told Bride that she could get out of the marriage if she had wanted to, but she was blinded by her immature desire to please her elders. 

Control over others cannot bring happiness.

 The marriage felt like something of a transaction between Mother and Bride's father with the two children not getting a say in anything that went on.  Mother asserted her control over Bridegroom in act I scene three when she didn't allow him any wine.  Father showed that he is controlling over Bride by telling her to seem happier, and speaking of her like she was an animal ready to be sold to the mother.  I think that this control is part of the reason that the marriage didn't work out.  Bride was unhappy with the whole situation, which is why she ran away.  Her running away contributed to Mother's unhappiness because it was the event which indirectly killed her son.  Control was Mother's downfall, in this case.