IDENTIFYING HALLMARKS OF SPEECH AND THOUGHT PRESENTATION IN THE BLOOD WEDDING BY F. G. LORCA

Abstract

The equilibrium between the narration and the character’s reflection shifts from the author’s control in the beginning to the character’s thought presentation at the end. This is significant because it highlights the thoughts of the characters through their speech. This reveals the subjective and objective roles of the speaker by their level of participation in the narrative and the legibility of the text to readers. The researcher attempts to explore the different categories of speech and the thought implicit in them. It reveals the voice of the character and the extent of the hold of the author over the text. The different categories of speech present thought along with the level of involvement of the characters in the narrative and expose the continuum of the authority of the author over the text with its effects on the readers. This is essentially qualitative research and data have been collected through purposive sampling which is a type of nonprobability sampling. The researcher takes Act III from the play named ‘Blood Wedding by F G Lorca’ and analyzes the thought and speeches of the major and minor characters in the selected act under Leech and Short Model (1981). The findings show the prominent feature used in this act is (FDS) and (FDT) by the characters which is the extreme form of direct speech (DS) but the framing clause is absent in such category. This speech category presents their conscious thought which is reflected vividly in their verbose. This highlights the mimetic element of this act because the characters speak like human beings without the author’s interruption. This creates a dramatic interactive environment in which the readers seem like participant-observers. There are other speech categories such as (FIS) and (DS) but these are in traces. The clause complex and interpersonal meta-function can be investigated in it in future