The House Of Bernarda Alba

Before 20th century Spain was powerful country, well known colonizer but during 1900 it had lost all its possessions like Cuba, the Philippines which caused lots of social tensions. Monarchists were conservative and didn’t want to reform Spain. Therefore schism brought among society: conservative and republic who hoped to reform this poor society. There were a number of areas where it was felt reform were needed like: agriculture, the church, and the army.
In 1936 an election was took place .all parties participated and voted against the government of monarch. The right wing formed the national front victory would lead to fascist and a popular wing victory would lead to Bolshevik Revolution. The popular front won the election and the new government reintroduced the reforms of the 1931-33.but unfortunately that party Falange which was defeated, started to grow and widespread disorder and political violence throughout the country. The Spanish civil war broke out in 1936.2wings supported by different factions, the nationalists were supported by the church, army, landowners, and industrialists. Liberals, socialists, communists supported the republican, …show more content…
He completed it on June 19,1936 and left Madrid , which was becoming a dangerous place then was kidnapped and assassinated on the 18th or 19th of August 1936. This play is about a woman whose name is Bernarda Alba and her 5 unmarried daughters who live with her 2 servants the head maid La Poncia who knows Bernarda very well. In this play you will see no man on stage, Lorca subtitled the play (Drama of women in the village of Spain) because the theatre scene in spain had more female actors than male one. Through this play three important themes has been explored: repression, tyranny, and power. This essay focused on the term “power” from Foucault’s point of view related to the atmosphere of Bernada’s house and specifically discussed