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A personification of the moon. This character appears on stage when Leonardo and the Bride run into the woods in order to escape the Bridegroom and his angry mob, which wants to capture them and punish Leonardo for breaking up the wedding. A highly symbolic character, the moon expresses its wish to shine light throughout the woods so that Leonardo and the Bride can’t escape death, which is hotly pursuing them. As such, this lunar being comes to represent nature’s embrace of death and, thus, the fact that even the most ghastly deaths—like murders—are part of the ordinary cycles of mortality that occur in the natural world.
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The Moon Character Timeline in Blood Wedding
The timeline below shows where the character The Moon appears in Blood Wedding. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Act Three, Scene One
...they speak, they realize that they’re getting “close” to Leonardo and the Bride, and because the moon is emerging, they decide to “hurry” away.
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The moon appears as “a young woodcutter with a white face.” Speaking in verse, he calls himself...
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When the moon slinks back into the trees, an elderly beggar woman appears. (“She is Death,” García Lorca...
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...says, to which the Bride adds, “I will be dead too.” As they hurry off, the moon reemerges, shining a “strong blue light” all over the forest. Then, “two long, piercing screams”...
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