Benarda+Alba+-+Characterisation+-+ADELA

- youngest daughter of Bernarda Alba - 20 years old - she is the most spirited, attractive, and rebellious daughter; she's the only one who defies Bernarda - only daughter who has romantic dreams and wants to get out of the house as she hates her mother's oppressing nature "I can't be locked up! I don't want my body to dry up like yours! I don't want to waste away and grow old in these rooms. Tomorrow I'll put on my green dress and go walking down the street. I want to get out!" - "I don't want my body to dry up like yours" shows that unlike her sisters, she wants to lose her virginity - she's already started dreaming about her future; "I had such dreams about this dress" Today, she's dreaming about her dress, tomorrow she will be dreaming about her marriage. - The dress is a representation of her dreams to be free, as the dress is green, and green connotes youth, hope, and freedom Green however is also the symbol of future death (She dies in the end). - Adela is a contrast of her sisters and mother, she adds color to the stage as everyone else is in black and she is in green with a colorful fan which adds life to the stage and her character. - She puts on the green dress in defiance to her mother, and goes out to the yard shouting "Chickens, look at me!", exhibiting her thirst for social interaction.
 * Adela**