Like many of the other works we have read, Blood Wedding is written from an omnescient point of view. The play shows what is happening from the bridegroom's perspective, the bride's perspective and Leonardo's perspective.
The play opens from the perspective of the bridegroom and his mother.
"Bridegroom: (entering) Mother.
Mother: What?
Bridegroom: I'm off.
Mother: Where to?
Bridegroom: To the vineyard"
This opening scene of the Bridegroom talking to his mother sets him up as the protagonist of the play. Because he is not doing anything in particular that would get the audience to dislike him, and becuase he is the main character in the opening scene of the play, the audience automatically assumes that he is the main character, and the audience automatically sympathizes with him.
Later in the play, the action shifts to the bride and her family.
"Maid: I'll finish doing your hair here.
Bride" I can't stand it inside, it's so hot.
Maid: In this place it's not even cool at dawn.
Because the point of view is omnescient and not first person, the viewpoint shifts at the end of act one and when act two begins the scene is set with the Bride and her family preparing for the wedding. In the scenes before this the bridegroom and his mother talk of his impending mairrage to the bride, so the audience is led to believe that the bride is basically on the side of the bridegroom in whatever conflict arises.
The point of view in Blood Wedding appears to be reliable, and there is no reason to suspect that it is concealing information.
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