Blood Wedding/Comparison

What are the questions that underlie at least two of the works that you have read and how have the authors sought to answer those questions?


Because I've been tracking fate/destiny it is fairy easy for me to write about this prompt.

The question the playwrites present is if it is possible to change your fate or an outcome of an event. Is it possible for someone to change their destiny and make things better? This is seen in all three plays.


Oedipus is fairly obvious but I will go into it anyway. He has a phrophecy that he does not want to fulfull. He lives through life trying to get around it but he does not. Instead everything comes true and his life sucks.

The Wild Duck- Hedvig tries to fix her family's fate by killing herself. She believed that she would fix the situation for them if she did this. The play ended with the scene of the family examining her death so it doesn't really show if they were happy but one can assume that she did not fix any problems in her family.

Blood Wedding- I'm still unsure of this plot... but the Bridegroom's family was cursed.. correct? They lost the father/son already and it was only fate that something would happen to the Bridegroom. Everyone around the Bride and the Bridegroom pushed this marriage and saw it as success. However, the Bride ended up running away and being with Leo anyway, despite the fact that she already got married.

The authors use their plots and conflicts to show that people have very little control over their lives and fate and destiny drive everything.