Blood Wedding Journal ABSENT.

Both the writers of Blood Wedding and The Wild Duck earned my trust. In The Wild Duck, the writer uses dramatic irony, this gives the reader the experience of being a part of the story, instead of just someone on the sidelines. The dramatic irony provides the reader with a feeling of secrecy, wishing they could share it with the characters in the story. The writer also builds my trust through Hedvig and Hjalmar's relationship, this relationship is very emotional, for me it made the story seem more relatable, as well as making the story universal. Not all people are going to know what high class dinners are like and Ibsen does a good job of cover all the possible audiences. He uses the higher classes, Mr. Werle. The lower, working class, Hjalmar and Gina. He also presents an older man through the grandfather, and a dreamer of Hedvig. The thing that also drew me in were the conversations that we meant to be kept private, there were many of them in this play, letting the audience see them gives them a personal connection to the characters. Ibsen also represents a wide range of emotions through the play, love, lust, anger, betrayal, happiness, longing.
In Blood Wedding Lorca connects to the reader in smaller ways. He does not suddenly reveal things, but merely hints at them, leading things to the audiences imagination. The writer also creates a wonderful sense of emotion throughout the play, all of the characters seem to constantly be in vivid moods. Whether it is the Mother's loss over her husband and son, the Bridegroom's excitement over his soon-to-be wife. The Bride's lust for Leonardo, and her despair over loosing both him and her husband. All of the characters are very descript, but through dialogue, not through sidenotes in the script. Ibsen also chooses to cover a wide range of people in his story, those suffering, those in love, those that are hard-working.