Word: fate
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Yerma's incessant railing against her 'fate" drives her to increasingly desperate measures as she attempts to understand and correct what is wrong inside her womb and her "blood." Isolated with her despair, she becomes alienated from her husband and from the rest of her village until her unbearable pain explodes in a climax of sexual and emotional anguish, violence and murder...
...same time the play presents us with a vision of one in whom that cycle is broken--"blocked up," as many of the play's characters repeat of Yerma--and asked to try to understand, with Yerma, the meaning of this arresting of the natural cycle in terms of "fate" and of morality...
...fact that "God," evidently arbitrarily, refuses to help Yerma calls sharply into question the idea of a just and merciful God; the notion that Yerma ought to accept her "fate" as a childless woman is caught up in her husband's insistence that she accept her "woman's place" within the walls of her house, never straying outside to the wild world that tempts her mysteriously. Garcia Lorca's complaints against the oppression of women come through sharply in some of the ideas which Yerma herself embodies: when Juan suggests that she resign herself to being childless, she reproaches...
...fate indeed took over at the 3:22 mark. Rudy, for the second time in the contest, batted home a shot from well inside the 18-yard box. It was a gift which had come from a deflected shot and it was a goal which sent the game into sudden-death overtime...
After three days of anxious anticipation and nervous excitement, the Harvard women's soccer team learned its post-season fate yesterday evening...