house of bernarda alba

monday's post

i'm really enjoying this play so far.but i'm confused as to what it "means" i guess.like what is the point of this play besides a love story gone wrong?i don't want to "trash" it but i really dont understand what is important about it besides entertainment.i get that all the girls are stuck in the house and their mother is strict and that drives the girls so a breaking point.they're all sick of each other and they are interested in any guy that comes along,despite the fact that one sister is already after him.they all know whats happening amongst themselves but no one does anything because they're family i guess.but at this point they're not family.they're just women who have grown disconneced because of they're physical closeness.thfamily aspect isn't there anymore between any of them.

well maybe that's the purpose...

is that family doesn't always remain in tact like you'd want it to.physical closeness doesn't equal family togetherness.its the seeing other people and doing other things that make you want to stay with your family,brings on family togetherness.

bernarda i think by trying to keep her girls and strengthen the family is actually demolishing it.you can't force a family to become a family.you can control the family when things get out of hand but you have to let the family grow on it's own.

poncia understands this and by butting head with bernarda and trying to get her to see the better way,bernarda's strong personality comes in and does the opposite because of her morals and to prove poncia wrong.

i think there is also something to be said about the love aspect of this play.besides just killing the family aspect bernarda kills the girls's sense of friends and love.what ever comes they just take it,withoout seeing what else the world has to offer.if one man comes into the life of the family even if its for one girl they all consume the man becuase they are so used to the woman inflection that the male inflection is dry and they all full up on one.detroying themselves as sisters in the process.
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tuesday's post.

so poncia basically backs up my whole analysis from yesterday.she and the servant say that the women go crazy over one man because they have none.and that blood means nothing to the girls because they need that "man" figure in their lives.

adela is really interesting.she's so desperate for pepe even when he's with her sister,that she will do anything to be with him.she even says she will be what ever he wants and she will be his mistriss and only he comands her.

but what i want to know is,was she pregnant before or did her and pepe just have sex in the third act?because they say she slept in the bed of a bad woman so that could mean either,but if she looked like she just came away from pepe,she was never pregnant and i don't understand then why she was so upset about the other girls baby dying.or if she was pregnant why did she have straw on her skirts now?

either way she didn't die a virgin like bernarda said.clearly she wanted to be in control of her daughters and even up to that point.up until they were loosing they're virginity,she had to control them.

but in the end pepe runs away after bernarda tried to kill him.but really none of this is his fault.the way lorca describes him,he's kinda un controlable,so why expect him to stick to one girl?and if they throw themselves at him would any man stop them?well you can say he SHOULD have controlled himself,and yes that is true,so some blame does rest on him.but!without bernarda starving the girls from a life outside of her clutches,they wouldn't scramble over the one man in their lives.and bernarda wouldn't have lost her daughter,and her daughter's innocence to him.plus angustias might have married and martirio would not be caught in a rage of jealousy.

and that would be the end.

pg-100
sat prep scared the living crap out of me.i wanted to try for the 1400's but i know there is no way i can ever do it.i'm not being negitive i'm being realistic abou tmy strengths here.i'm not a good stress person.sat's are super super stressful.i mean i was getting pissed at 10 practice questions that weren't even graded it was just an idea of what is to come.i'm afraid that the sat's will just drive me insane.i would have loved to have the balls to say yes i will get a 1400,and if i dont i will put up with the "humiliation",but i just couln't make the comitment.but i did try really hard with the practice questions today.as much as i freaked unnessesarily.i tried still!