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BERNARDA QUOTES & ANALYSIS Temas | Opresión | * Act 1 p11 – ‘este maldito pueblo sin río, pueblo de pozos, donde siempre bebe el agua con el miedo de que este envenenada’ – BA. beber el agua = metaphor for doing something relacionado al sexo or against rules of society/oppression? so when you ‘beber el agua’ it will be ‘envenenada’ ie you will be punished, people will gossip about it etc * Act 1 p12 – ‘en ocho años que dure el luto no ha de entrar en esta casa el viento de la calle.’ – BA: tradición, opresión * Act 1 p 17 – ‘no ha tenido novio ninguna, ni les hace falta’ – BA doesnt want daughters to have boyfriends. Oppresses them. * Act1 p28 – ‘hasta que salga de este casa con los pies adelante mandaré en lo mío y en lo vuestro’ – BA saying she will order them around * Act 2 p13 – ‘Ésas están mejor que vosotras. ¡Siqiuera allí se ríe y se oyen porrozas! – La P compares other family with Bernardas, other family arent oppressed, you can hear them laughing * Act 2 p28 – ‘Tú no tienes derecho más que a obedecer’ – BA to Angustias * Act 3 p11 – ‘Tus hijas están y viven como metidas en alacenas’ – la P to BA * Act 3 P24 – ‘Yo no quiero llantos’ BA – supresses feelings of daughters. | (Lucha por) la libertad | * Act 1 p 11- ‘Abanico redondo con flores rojas y verdes’ – representa la libertad (+ envidia?). flores significa la libertad y la fertilidad. Adela’s expression of her rebelliousness & her wish for freedom * aCt 1 p21 – ‘Se ha puesto el traje verde que se hizo para estrenar el día de su cumpleaños, se ha ido al corral y ha comenzado a voces: "¡Gallinas, gallinas, miradme!"’ She craves attention as she gets none in the house. Expressing her wish for libertad with her dress. Envious (Green) of all of those who can be free? * Act 1 p25: ‘¡No, no me acostumbraré!... ¡Mañana me pondré mi vestido verde … quiero salir!’ Adela * ¡Quiero irme de aquí...A casarme a la orilla del mar, a la orilla del mar! – MJ deseo por la libertad * Act 2 p2 ‘Afortunadamente pronto voy a salir de este infierno’ – Angustias – casarse y salir de la casa es liberarse. Magdalena replies ‘a lo mejor no sales’ – implies that wedding might not happen. | Machismo/Papel de la mujer/opresión contra la mujer | * Act 1 p8 – ‘Las mujeres en la iglesia no deben mirar más hombre que al oficiante… volver la cabeza es buscar el calor de la pana’- BA – women not allowed to look at men (or have deseos sexuales) * Act 1 p12 – ‘hilo y aguja para las hembras. Látigo y mula para el varón’. BA * Act 2 p14 – ‘vino otra de éstas y yo misma di dinero a mi hijo mayor para que fuera. Los hombres necesitan estas cosas’ – La P saying men need sex. She gave money to a girl so her son could have sex with her. * Act 2 p14 – ‘Se les perdona todo’ (Adela) and ‘Nacer mujer es el mayor castigo’ (Amelia) * Act 3 p3 – ‘Encerrad las potras en la cuadra, pero dejadlo [el caballo] libre’ (BA) – potras is metaphor for women and caballo for men?? Ie men can be free but women can’t. * Act 3 p 13 – ‘No sabe la fuerza que tiene un hombre entre mujeres solas’ – Criada | Que dirán | * Act 1 p11 – ‘El veneno de sus lenguas’ – BA * Act 1 p16 – ‘les gusta verlo y comentarlo, y se chupan sus dedos’ – everyone gossips about what happened (about Paca La Roseta) * Act 1 p19 – ‘tiene la culpa esta crítica que no nos deja vivir’ – Amelia. * Act 2 p20 – ‘Estarán las vecinas con el oído pegado a los tabiques’ – Bernarda while talking about who stole pic of Pepe * Act 2 p30-end – whole thing about ‘La hija de la Librada, la soltera, tuvo un hijo y no se sabe con quién… Ahora la quieren matar’ – oppression of society – they want to kill her for having an illegitimate son * Act 4 p 24 – ‘¡Mi hija ha muerto virgen!... ¡Nadie dirá nada!’ – BA cares more about que dirán tan well being of her daughters. | Jerarquía/clase social & Apariencias | * Act 1 P4 ‘pan y uvas por toda herencia’ La P – family much poorer than they make out * Act 1 p12 – ‘las vecinas pueden verla desde su ventana’ – BA. She is scared neighbours will see MJ and think shes mad. Worried about what people will think. Gossip dictates their lives & oppresses them. They cant be free due to gossip + appearances. * Act 1 p 17 – ‘Los hombres de aquí no son de su clase.’ BA * Act 2 p13 – ‘Cada clase tiene que hacer lo suyo’ – Magdalena | Death | * Play opens with death of BA’s husband & ends with death of Adela – cyclical. Possibly shows consequences of BA but not sure how/why husband died. | Religión /Tradición | * Campanas, Luto, vestirse en negro * Act 2 p9 – La P to Adela: ‘No vayas contra la ley de Dios’ * Act 3 p3- ‘¡Ya has derramado la sal!’ – Amelia – superstición y tradición. Sugiere que algo mala va a pasar * Act 3 p3 – ‘En mi tiempo las perlas significaban lágrimas’ – Prudencia. Again suggests something bad will happen or that marriage between Angustias and Pepe will be sad represented by the pearls on the ring |

Bernarda | Acto 1 | * P1 ‘Mandona! Dominanta!’ – La P describing BA * P1 ‘si te viera Bernarda’ – Criada scared of BA * P2 ‘Tirana de todos los que la rodean. Es capaz de sentarse encima de tu corazón y ver cómo te mueres durante un año sin que se le cierre esa sonrisa fría que lleva en su maldita cara’ * P2 ‘buen descanso ganó su pobre marido’ – ironic as only way for husband to escape from BA is through death – Adela does the same at the end. Dying is better than being with BA * P3 ‘La gente de él la odia’ * P6 – ‘¡Silencio! – her first Word = her last – cyclic, oppression prevails & is perpetual * P8 – ‘Mala, más que mala’ (Mujer 2) and ‘lengua de cuchillo’ (Mujer 3) – both about BA. Cuchillo repeatedly used to represent evil, gossip and saying bad things * P17 – ‘no ha tenido novio ninguna, ni les hace falta’ – BA doesnt want daughters to have boyfriends. * P19 – ‘tienen miedo a nuestra madre’ – Martirio * p28 – ‘hasta que salgue de este casa con los pies adelante mandaré en lo mío y en lo vuestro’ – BA saying she will order them around | Acto 2 | * P23 – ‘No pienso. Hay cosas que no se pueden ni se deben pensar. Yo ordeno’ – ignorancia * P24 – ‘Ahora estás ciega’ – La P talkingto BA. BA says ‘aquí no pasa nada’ p26 | Acto 3 | * P2 – ‘Una hija que desobedece deja de ser hija para convertirse en una enemiga’ – reference to Adela/Martirio * P3 – ‘Bregando como un hombre’ – Prudencia about Bernarda – BA is masculine * P24 – ‘Yo no quiero llantos’ and the rest of her speech about mi hija ha muerto virgen etc – supresses feelings of daughters. |

Adela | Acto 1 | * p21 –‘ "¡Gallinas, gallinas, miradme!" ’ She craves attention as she gets none in the house. Expressing her wish for libertad with her dress. Envious (Green) of all of those who can be free? * P25 ¡No , no me acostumbraré!… ¡Mañana me pondré mi vestido verde y me echaré a pasear por la calle! ¡Yo quiero salir! | Acto 2 | * P7 – ‘Yo hago con mi cuerpo lo que me parece’ * P10 – ‘este fuego que tengo levantado por piernas y boca’ – her love for Pepe is the fuego? * p15 – ‘Me gustaría segar para ir y venir’ – Adela wanting freedom – she wants to go outside and be with nature = freedom * P31-32 ‘¡No, no, para matarla, no!... (Cogiéndose el vientre)’ | Acto 3 | * The wáter references (see simbolismo - agua) * P19 – ‘he tenido fuerza para adelantarme. El brío y el mérito que tú no tienes’ – Adela to Martirio * P20- ‘(En un arranque, y abrazándola)’ – maybe she doesn’t have bad intentions * P21 – ‘a un caballo encabritado soy capaz de poner de rodillas con la fuerza de mi dedo meñique’ – mostrando su poder sexual con Pepe?? * P22 ‘(Adela arrebata un bastón a su madre y lo parte en dos.) Esto hago yo con la vara de la dominadora’. First time anyone has stood up to Bernarda. Shows her power over Bernarda – she is becoming free & her death is her form of freedom. Adela’s transformation is complete. Maybe her role in the book is finished dies. |

Simbolismo | Bastón | * Act 1 p9 ‘(Dando un golpe de bastón en el suelo)’ – first time baston mentioned, used to show poder + autoridad * ^ repeated a lot eg p28 ‘(golpeando con el bastón en el suelo) No os hagáis ilusiones de que vais a poder conmigo’ – uses her baston to show her authority * p 13: ‘avanzando con el bastón… le da’- BA hits Angustias with the baston * act 3 p22 – ‘(Adela arrebata un bastón a su madre y lo parte en dos)’ | Animales | * ACt 1 p6 – ‘los pobres son como animales’ * Act 1 p23 – ‘siempre cabeza con cabeza como dos ovejitas’ – Magdalena talking about Angie and Martirio. They always gossip to each other. * Act 2 p1: ‘como si tuviera una lagartija entre los pechos’ – La P about Adela. Lagarta = referencia a serpiente del jardín de Edén? * Act 2 p17 – ‘una millila sin desbravar’ – Martirio knows the sounds at night were Pepe but she says they were a mule ie mule = Pepe. ‘El caballo’ througout is Pepe | Agua/sed | * Acto 1 p11 ‘Pueblo sin ríos’ BA – oppressed society * Act 3 p13 – ‘A mí me gustaría cruzar el mar y dejar esta casa de guerra’ – cross the wáter to freedom * Act 3 p14 – ‘Voy a beber agua… me despertó la sed’ – Adela – shes actually going to see Pepe. La sed is her deseo por la libertad/relaciones sexuales con pepe * Act 3 p17 – ‘¿Por qué aquí no hay espuma?’ – MJ saying no freedom in the house * Act 3 p20 – ‘El me lleva a los juncos de la orilla’ – Adela about Pepe | Campanas | * Death, religión | Colores | Negro | * Act 1 p6 – ‘faldas y abanicos negros’ – luto * Act 1 p11 – ‘Dame un negro (abanico)’ – BA – luto, opresión | | Verde | * Act 1 p 11- ‘Abanico redondo con flores rojas y verdes’ – representa la libertad (+ envidia?). flores significa la libertad y la fertilidad. Adela’s expression of her rebelliousness & her wish for freedom * Act 1 p21 – ‘se ha puesto el traje verde’ – Adela wearing green dress as expression of liberty | | Blanco | * Act 1: habitación blanquísima * Act 2: habitación blanca * Act 3: paredes blancas ligeramente azuladas less & less White every time less and less pure | Heat | * Act 1 p7 – ‘cae el sol como plomo’ – mujer 3. Heat builds tension & represents repression. Used lots throughout the play whenever there is tension. | Abanico | * Represents libertad and stops heat ie stops repression. Abanico Redondo con flores rojas y verdes |

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