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In order to accomplish this, I voiced the bride’s thoughts, emotions and lamentations as she speaks of her contentious views concerning her duty as a wife and a woman in society, a topic otherwise seldom discussed amongst citizens, as a result of women’s emotional and physical isolation from the outside world as well as its controversy throughout that time period. I used many literary devices such as, metaphors, similes, imagery, allegory and personification in order to aid my goal of portraying the bride’s emotions and ideologies in a more personal way, with the purpose of inducing emotions into the reader regarding the bride’s life as a woman forced to marry as she is deprived of the right to choose her own destiny. However, in Lorca’s play,

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