{"id":7858,"date":"2021-08-10T07:57:27","date_gmt":"2021-08-10T07:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/obra-literaria\/yerma\/"},"modified":"2021-10-20T11:48:25","modified_gmt":"2021-10-20T11:48:25","slug":"yerma","status":"publish","type":"obra_literaria","link":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/obra-literaria\/yerma\/","title":{"rendered":"Yerma"},"content":{"rendered":"

The central issue is about infertility or, in other words, about the reproductive instinct to reproduce in the face of the repression of the senses in a rural environment in which the lack of fertility has the overtones of a curse.<\/p>\n

Yerma, at the beginning, still has some hope of conceiving a child of her own, like her friends. Marriage to Juan, a peasant, was imposed on her by her father. The liaison, she says, she accepted less for “fun” than for the child she longs for and who does not come. Despite her willingness, she does not succeed and her house is transformed into a hell.<\/strong> “When he covers me he does his duty, but I notice his waist is cold as if his body were dead and I, who have always been disgusted by hot women, wanted to be at that moment like a mountain of fire” (Act III, Part I).<\/p>\n

Yerma calls on Dolores, a kind of sorceress who has helped other women to conceive. While she is still at home, Juan and his sisters-in-law appear. They have a heated argument, Juan asks her what she is looking for there, a married woman, and Yerma replies: “I am looking for you. I am looking for you. It is you that I look for day and night without finding shade to breathe. It is your blood and your protection that I want” (Act III, Part I).<\/p>\n

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Margarita Xirgu with Garc\u00eda Lorca and Cipriano Rivas Cherif after the premiere of Yerma in 1934.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The tragedy culminates in the last act, a pilgrimage where infertile women come to ask Christ for children. The Old Woman, who had already appeared in the first act, offers her son to make her pregnant: “My house needs a woman. Go with him and the three of us will live together. My son is of blood. Like me. If you come into my house there is still the smell of cradles”. Yerma rejects the offer, but suddenly runs into her husband who has overheard the conversation and confesses: “Without children life is sweeter. I am happy not having them”.<\/p>\n

Juan tries to kiss Yerma, but she reacts violently and strangles him in the middle of the field.<\/strong> The play ends with a heartbreaking scream. Yerma in her eagerness to have a child ends up killing the only man who, according to convention, can make her a mother: “Do not come near me because I have killed my son, my son, I myself have killed my son. I myself have killed my son! (Act III, Part II).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":7859,"template":"","genero_obra_literaria":[102],"class_list":["post-7858","obra_literaria","type-obra_literaria","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","genero_obra_literaria-theater"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/obra_literaria\/7858"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/obra_literaria"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/obra_literaria"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"genero_obra_literaria","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/genero_obra_literaria?post=7858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}