Deciphering the House Color of the Celebrated Bernarda Alba

If an opportunity comes that you will collect millions of dollars but in a condition that you will dress in black and your house must be painted white all over for the rest of your life, would you accept the fortune? I’m utterly sure that insatiable people will immediately answer “Yes” and reason out that “Who cares! I’ll be a millionaire!” On the
other hand, those who are free-spirited and are free will advocators will surely disagree because these people do not want to be captivated in a black-and-white world forever.

But the celebrated Bernarda Alba---a character in Lorca’s most captivating play entitled “House of Bernarda Alba”---will choose the former although she is already rich. Bernarda Alba is the governing character in the play who always styles herself in black, along with the rest of the characters, mainly because of the death of her husband. What’s captivating about the play is that her house is splashed in white, which symbolizes purity, contentment, and peace. The color of this house is ironic because what happens inside it is otherwise---Alba’s family lives in despair, sadness, and chaos because of varying problems.

For your information, Federico Garcia Lorca is a celebrated Spanish writer and critically-acclaimed poet whose works are celebrated around the world.