Blood Wedding Journal #1

I think that the relationships between the characters of this play are a lot more deceiving and complicated than they look on the outside just like in The Wild Duck. The two plays The Wild Duck and Blood Wedding are similar because they both share a common theme of deception.

In the play Blood Wedding, although the bridegroom and his whole family seem to be happy, it is only because they do not know the truth. The bride deceives the groom in making him think that the person she loves is him and him alone. However that is not the case because the person that she truly loves is Leonard and not him where as in the play The Wild Duck Hjalmar who is also deceived by his wife Gina, because she does not tell him that she once had a relationship with Gregors Werle. The relationships between Hjalmar and his wife Gina, and the relationship between the bride revolves around deception. They are spun in a web of lies and deprived of the truth.