"There are a variety of youth in the second act. Why? How does Lorca use the
youth to affect the themes of the play?"
The youth are used in the second act in order to portray the contrast between the imagination of the adult life children think they will have to the dark reality of the life they will actually have. The youth think that marriage and the adult world are full of fun times and cake and love and happiness. However, the bride tries to infer to them that they should want to stay young and not grow up so fast because marriage is a big commitment that you cannot get out of, and it is no where as fun as one would expect. Lorca uses the youth to affect the themes of the play by using them to contrast the harsh reality of what is going on around them. Also, they know more than they let on or believe or think they know. This relates to the audience because the audience knows more than it thinks it knows as well because they have been given so many hints and foreshadows, but they don't understand it, just like the children.
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