La Casa de Bernarda Alba pg4-24

Question 1

How does Poncia describe Bernarda?

Answer 1

Mandona y Dominanta

Question 2

Poncia as animal

Answer 2

a good bitch, aboya cuando se lo dice

Question 3

Example of hierarchy between the servant ladies

Answer 3

Servant and the Beggar woman fight over who gets the scraps, “los pobres son como los animales’’

Question 4

How is the little girl disrespectful?

Answer 4

she speaks to Bernarda

Question 5

What does the sun represent?

Answer 5

Repression, “hace años no he conocido calor igual” dice una mujer

Question 6

Pepe and freedom

Answer 6

they all say no one has seen Pepe, he was with the mourners

Question 7

What Bernarda says about the river and the wells

Answer 7

we drink it fearing it may be poisoned, the water here represents the freedom

Question 8

Analysis of the fan incident

Answer 8

The fan represents purity and Bernarda is angered when one with colours is handed to her, she also demands a black one because that conforms with the mourning

Question 9

The definition of what it means to be a woman according to Bernarda

Answer 9

A needle and thread for women

Question 10

Reaction when María escapes

Answer 10

Don’t let her go near the well