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Sophocles uses conflict, passion, and fire imagery in Antigone to show that isolation strengthens stubborn beliefs. Creon's ban on burying Polynices creates conflict between him and Antigone, isolating Creon and strengthening his opinions. Creon speaks passionately about punishing Antigone, showing his commitment. Fire represents Antigone and Creon's irreconcilable desires. In Blood Wedding, Garcia Lorca uses violent language and contrasting imagery to expose nature's cruelty, revealing it can seem liberating but is actually indifferent and malevolent. Garcia Lorca also uses motifs, suppressed tone, and juxtaposition in Blood Wedding to convey

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Sophocles uses conflict, passion, and fire imagery in Antigone to show that isolation strengthens stubborn beliefs. Creon's ban on burying Polynices creates conflict between him and Antigone, isolating Creon and strengthening his opinions. Creon speaks passionately about punishing Antigone, showing his commitment. Fire represents Antigone and Creon's irreconcilable desires. In Blood Wedding, Garcia Lorca uses violent language and contrasting imagery to expose nature's cruelty, revealing it can seem liberating but is actually indifferent and malevolent. Garcia Lorca also uses motifs, suppressed tone, and juxtaposition in Blood Wedding to convey

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Framework for Essays that IB scored a 7

For each topic sentence, highlight or underline the words or phrases that directly support the
Thesis statement.
Thesis: In his play Blood Wedding, Federico Garcia Lorca uses situational irony,
characterization, and symbolism to convey that people falsely vilify one another to avoid
examining their own wrongdoings and make difficult situations easier to bear.

Situational irony demonstrates Garcia Lorca’s message that people evade responsibility for
their own mistakes by searching for evil in those around them.

Garcia Lorca employs both direct and indirect characterization to demonstrate individuals’
tendency to demonize others instead of acknowledging what they have done wrong.

Garcia Lorca’s use of symbols highlights the true culprits that his characters miss in their
desperation to blame on another for their misfortune.

Thesis: Sophocles uses conflict, a passionate tone, and the motif of fire in Antigone to show
that when people are alone in their opinions, they tend to be more stubborn in staying true to
those beliefs.

By having Creon forbid Antigone to bury Polynices, her brother, Sophocles creates an external
conflict between the two, which in turn isolates Creon in his opinions and stregthens his beliefs.

Despite Haemon’s disagreement, Sophocles has Creon speak in a passionate tone when
describing Antigone’s punishment, showing how committed he is to his unpoplular opinions.

Sophocles utilizes the motif of fire to represent both Antigone and Creon’s extreme desires,
despite the fact that these beliefs are irreconcilable.

Thesis: However, in Blood Wedding, Garcia Lorca utilizes characterization, metaphor, and
personification to expose nature’s harsh reality; it may seem to liberate individuals from a
repressive society, but actually, nature is indifferent and actively malevolent.

The violent diction utilized to characterize the Moon and the Beggar Woman conveys the
cruelty of the natural world.

Garcia Lorca’s use of contrasting imagery portrays nature’s liberation as an illusioin and reveals
its harsh reality.

Garcia Lorca uses personification of nature to convey its brutal reality that is unexpectedly
comparable to violent human nature.

Thesis: In Blood Wedding, Garcia Lorca uses motifs, a suppressed tone, and juxtaposition to
convey the hardships young people who are in love face when choosing between conforming to
tradition and following their genuine passions.

In order to see the ways in which Blood Wedding explores the nature of traditional weddings,
one must consider Garcia Lorca’s use of motifs throughout the play.
Additionally, Garcia Lorca implements a suppressed tone through the physical and emotional
setting in order to authentically capture the harsh nature of traditional weddings.

Lastly, Garcia Lorca juxtaposes the ideas of love and death to reinforce the them that without
passionate love, a marriage is synonymous with death.

Yes No Content related questions:


Does your thesis statement include a SINGLE TECHNIQUE used by the
author?
Does your thesis statement connect that SINGLE technique to a
UNIVERSAL THEME that does NOT mention characters or plot
elements?
Does each topic sentence include the author?
Does each topic sentence include the TECHNIQUE you are analyzing?
Does each topic sentence explain the overall effect of that technique?
Do you lead into every example with context that is NOT a complete
sentence?
Is every example IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWED by a specific breakdown
OF THAT EXAMPLE and how the specific technique mentioned in your
topic sentence is present and creating an effect?
Is the effect ultimately linked back to the UNIVERSAL THEME that you
mentioned in your thesis statement?

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