Color In Federico Garcia Lorca

In this play, the writer, Federico Garcia Lorca has used colour to symbolize a lot of things. Colours hold as much importance in ones life as fire and water. Colours have a pivotal role in this play as well. The use of colour has made it very easy for the writer to explain what the exact situation was. Also it has been used to show the idea of foreshadowing to the audience. For example the use of the colour 'black' exposed to the viewers the idea of the deaths of Leonardo and the Bridegroom particularly.

In Act 1, Scene 1, in the Bridegroom's house, the introduction states that the room was painted in shades of yellow. Its gives a pleasant environment to the place as it is the colour of gold and wheat which are considered as the signs of

However, the scene is again contrasted by the use of a horse, who is believed to have been stabbed in the leg, and is assumed to be in Leonardo's horse, which also makes the audience think that its Leonardo's blood on the horse in the line '' horsey's hooves are red with blood....'' and in the further scenes he has been killed. The colour pink is also ironically used in the scene as pink is the colour of love, but Leonardo does not love his wife but he loves the bride. Furthermore, he shows how love was faked in the society at that time. Pink also represents tranquility, however it is again a contrast as Leonardo was anything but calm when he entered the

White is a colour of purity, innocence, virginity, light, spirituality and goodness. The colour is aptly used as the bride is assumed to be a virgin waiting for her husband (although the audience is not sure of her virginity until in the last scene she tells that she is ''as pure as a new born child'' as it was a large issue at that time). White also displays the character of the bride as it shows how unemotional the bride was around the bridegroom; therefore, it puts more emphasis on the expression of love of the bridegroom for