The House of Bernarda Alba

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…

playing the part of Bernarda Alba in Lorca’s The House of Bernarda Alba use Duende, knowledge and understanding of Franco’s Spain when preparing to play this role? The House of Bernarda Alba is a play by the Spanish dramatist Federico Garcia Lorca. It has always been related to a group of other plays such as Yerma and Blood Wedding, labelling them as a ‘rural trilogy’. However Lorca did not plan to include it in his trilogy of the Spanish earth, which he did not finish when he was murdered.…

Hamlet’s monolog is one governed by rationality. It is a meditation on life and death, being alive and not being, over the disadvantages of existence and the act of suicide. Hamlet compares life with death. He sees life as missing the power, humans as being exposed to the blows of life and outrageous fortune. The only way to dodge the blows will be to stop existing. The death is thus a desirable state. Nevertheless, it is also seen as a journey to the unknown, to a place for which there is no…

In the plays, A Streetcar Named Desire and The House of Bernarda Alba, gender roles are discussed often. In A Streetcar Named Desire, Blanche, Stella, and Stanley display the exaggeration of gender roles in order to criticize them. Blanche’s character is so over the top that her display of gender roles makes the audience question the necessity of the gender roles in place. Stella and Stanley are near perfect models of gender norms and the extreme nature of their problems displays clear reasons…

The House of Alba is one of the most prominent aristocratic families in Europe with ties to the Spanish monarchy. The Alba heritage is one the family has worked to preserve for over 500 years. Normally in order to see pieces from the Alba collection, one would need to visit one of the families’ palaces around the world. Therefore, it was such a privilege to observe more than 130 works of art created by a handful of master artists throughout Europe. Impeccable pieces from the Antiquity,…

The House of Bernarda Alba and Suppliants both address the common issue of how the parents of the girls handle various issues in their life: marriage, decency, honor and respect. However, how these parents go about enforcing these rules on their children vary from levels of abuse to helpful suggestion. Bernarda likes to rule her daughters with an iron fist and know everything they do while Danaus watches his daughters and gives his own wise commentary when necessary. Their parenting styles are…

dramatist. It was his great writing for the Spanish Literature that he wrote rural trilogy as Blood wedding, Yerma and The House of Bernarda Alba. Following these plays he knits the symbolical background with the Aristotelian concepts. His first play Blood Wedding is based on the theme of bloodshed and feud between two families which ends with thirst of murder to Bridegroom and Leonardo who belongs to the Felix…

These views were illustrated in the play Yerma as it focuses on the struggles of Yerma whose name translates to, “barren land” and her husband Juan. This particular plot hinges on the single fact that Yerma has no children, “We have no children…Juan!” and Juans’ desire to keep her contained in the house where he thinks she belongs. Set in a time where the main purpose of a woman’s life was to take care of her home and raise her children. This fact is extremely concerning for Yerma, as she…