Blood Wedding. Journal 3: Comparison.

This play is different from the rest in a way that it uses a different style of language and it uses heavy symbolism. This makes it harder for me to figure out how it connects to the other plays. But, one common thing I, and the rest of the class, have noticed about all three plays is that there is a theme of eyes and blindness.

In Oedipus he stabs his eyes out, literally. Also he is blind to what is really happening in his life. Sophocles uses irony by making the blind prophet "see" more than Oedipus.

In the wild duck, Hedvig is going blind. This makes the father very sad and it dampens his spirits. The father in a sense is also blind too, in a way that he cannot see past his rage to do what is good for the family. In a way this is also ironic because Hedvig is really sensible and can "see" what is right while the father can't.

In Blood Wedding there is a reference to daggers/knives in the eyes. This shows how rage and anger/evil blinds people. All of these plays in a sense use eyes to show how people will do the wrong thing if they are overcome by their emotions.