Blood Wedding Journal #3

"What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out?"
In the play Wild Duck drama is almost in every scene. In many tragedy plays there are parts of the story that lead up to the climax. However, in the Wild Duck there are intense scenes throughout. When Gregers is confronted by his father and immediately they bicker. Right off we can see that Gregers has a struggling relationship with his father. The play moves on and the reader knows about Gina's relationship with Old Werle and Gregers intentions with this new found knowledge. Gregers then shares this information with Hjalmar ruining his marriage with Gina. The intenisty continues with the suicide of Hedvig due to her father's misunderstood hatred for her. In this story there are no dull parts; in almost every scene something occurs between two characters or even an internal conflict with one character. The drama filled play applies to this quote directly.
The quote also applies to the play Blood Wedding. In the beginning of the play we (the reader) find the mothers feelings towards knives and we come to the understanding that her husband and son have died. The mother completely resents the idea of knives and never wants the bridegroom to handle knives. The bridegroom then is able to marry the bride, however the bride acts in the most absurd way. She acts as if she is still in love with Leonardo and later in the play the reader finds this to be true. The bride then runs away with Leonardo and because of this the play ends with the death of Leonardo and the bridegroom. The play is filled with drama and tragedy leaving out the dull bits. There is not a dull part of the play keeping the readers attention.