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The Question and Answer section for The House of Bernarda Alba is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.
• wise
• resentful
• filled with hatred for Bernarda
On the flip side of repression is the idea of individual freedom. Perhaps the most severe cost of repression is that it keeps a truly poetic soul, like Adela's, from flourishing. She shows time and time again that she is an eccentric with her own...
Bernarda has very firm ideas about what a woman should do - "needle and thread," which speaks to demestic service and loneliness – whereas men get to express their liveliness outside. What's perhaps most depressing of all is that Bernarda has not...
