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...country girl" of rural Spain, loving and tender toward her young husband Juan, and desiring nothing more than to have a child; it's a desire which has remained unfulfilled for the first two years of their marriage. As time passes and Yerma's age mates become pregnant and bear children, Yerma remains barren, "empty." Her desire for a baby becomes an obsession, her infertility a trauma that begins to blur the boundaries between psychological and physical pain until it becomes an unbearable torment to her ("Every woman has enough blood inside her for three or four children," she says...
...idea of blood becomes a linking metaphor, a image that can be used to mean both the spirit and soul, and the body itself. Some of Garcia Lorca's most beautiful images derive from this juxtaposition. For instance, trying to describe the sensations she's experiencing, the newly pregnant Maria says to Yerma, "Have you ever held a live bird, tight, in your hand? Well, it's the same, but in your blood...
...same time, there is a certain uncertainty which surrounds all of Garcia Lorca's work: however lucid the image, the atmosphere remains more beautiful than the real, somehow symbolic, like a beautiful dream. We never know exactly why Yerma does not become pregnant. Moriarity's old woman would have it that Juan is infertile; the traditional wisdom of the village gossips suggests that Yerma is infertile because she somehow doesn't really want or deserve a child; Yerma herself rages against the "fate" whichs eems to have condemned her. Depending on which system of values the viewer uses to read...
Also, admittedly the children of good monarchs are not necessarily good themselves. We rather wish that Prince Rainier's daughter, Princess Stephanie, hadn't gone from one convicted boyfriend to another, finally having two children out of wedlock with her bodyguard, who had another girlfriend pregnant at the same time. We also wish that Queen Margrethe of Denmark's son, Prince Frederik, didn't date lingerie models...
...reason the healthy Georgia woman could not conceive a child. Already the mother of two girls, she had figured she would return to school, finish her education and then go back to the business of having babies. Her body figured otherwise. At 39, after several failed attempts to get pregnant, she learned that while she was in school an ovarian failure had triggered premature menopause. Although her womb was perfectly ready to carry a fertilized egg to term, her depleted ovaries could no longer provide...