Benarda+Alba+-+Characterisation+-+MAGDALENA

__**Magdalena Alba**__
 * 30 years old**


 * Magdalena is Bernarda's 2nd Eldest daughter, the first being Angustias.
 * She is the most emotional over her father's death, as she is the eldest daughter of Bernarda's second husband. "She was the only one that her father loved."
 * She hates Angustias because she inherited her father's fortune and even though she was the favoured daughter.
 * After Pepe el Romano proposes to Angustias, Magdalena detests her even more from jealousy. This is obvious when she is not happy for Angustias in Act One, here she states facts and opinions on Pepe's relationship with Angustias: "Pepe el Romano's twenty-five and the best looking man around. It would be natural if he were courting you Amelia, or Adela, since she's only twenty. But no go after the dullest thing in our house, a woman who talks through her nose, just like her father did."
 * She shows signs of affection towards Adela, as she states that she only wants happiness for her, but when they mention Adela's green dress, Magdalena quicky shows her distaste for Angustias, stating "The best thing she can do is give [the dress] to Angustias for her wedding to Pepe el Romano."
 * She also seems to have her views on class, like her mother. "Each class does what it must."
 * She is named after Mary Magdalene the prostitute talked about in the bible. However, there may not necessarily have any links between the two.
 * Magdalena at thirty, has been treated like a child her whole life being oppressed by her tyrannical mother. Therefore, we can understand where all her hatred and jealousy comes from.
 * All her life she has been ordered to stay in the house and has no experience of love or freedom. From this, we can understand how she acts childish towards certain issues which she has no control over such as money, love, marriage and freedom.