Chronicles Of A Death Foretold: A Literary Analysis

A woman's purity was something that held much honor and respect for her future husband. This was why women in the 50s were known to live at home with their fathers until a marriage was arranged or until she was proposed to. After Angela was raped she was proposed to by Bayardo. She was forced to marry him to help her family since they were terribly poor. After their wedding she told Bayardo that she wasn't pure and after this he returned her. This brought much shame to her name and her family’s name. This is why the Vacario brother had to kill Santiago and This is why the townspeople didn't stop them, they felt it was right they Santiago be punished for his wrong doings.

The women reassuringly reply to her saying, “‘The only thing they believe is what they see on the sheet’” (Marquez 42). Here the author develops Angela’s character as a very persuable young girl who believes that she can easily fool her future husband on her wedding night. Angela Vicario is gullible and naive. Not being a virgin before wedding is very shameful in the hispanic society, yet she tells the two women about not being a virgin a few days before her wedding. The women are older, have a lot of experience, and they have been married for a long time as well. Angela, In contrast, is very new to these tricks and so, can not make herself trick her husband into believing that she is a virgin. Angela tells her brothers that Santiago is her lover when they ask her for answers; Angela lies, as later on in the novella, the author states that Santiago is, in fact, innocent. Angela can also be considered a selfish person, because to save her lover, she blames everything on Santiago. Angela saves her true lover by saying Santiago Nasar’s name, but she does not confront to her true lover and ask him for help. It is safe to say that Angela loses her virginity to someone who does not love her, due to the fact that, her true lover does not make himself known to her family or the town. Seeing that Angela’s true lover does not come to rescue Angela when she is being beaten by her

Angela was forced to marry Bayardo San Roman ever since he asked her to marry her. It never gave Angela the chance to know Bayardo San Roman. On page 20 it states, “It was Angela Vicario who didn't want to marry him.” She clearly did not love Bayardo, and did not want to marry him. Angela’s mother, Pura Vicario said, "Love can be learned too." Pura wants her daughter to marry Bayardo, and learn to love him.

The reader will also discern the scores of parallels able to be drawn between Santiago and Jesus Christ, making Santiago a literary ‘Christ-figure’. Both were somewhat outcast, in Santiago’s case because he was not a native Columbian. This makes it easier for the town to allow Santiago’s death, and make him the scapegoat. The town’s unwillingness to save Santiago is similar to the Jews choosing to have Jesus killed rather than a murderer. In both cases, those who had the chance to save the innocent man felt terrible afterwards. Jesus had foretold his own death, and although Santiago was blissfully unaware of his demise until it befell him, the narrator states ‘never was there a death more foretold.’ In dying for the sake of Angela Vicario’s honour, Santiago is sacrificed for the sins of others, which was also Jesus’ purpose in dying. In addition, the seven fatal wounds Santiago suffers probably represent the Seven Deadly sins.

Angela takes “only the time necessary to say the name” (47) and arguably Santiago has been chosen simply by random fate; any male’s name would suffice, suggesting in a patriarchal society valuing a women strictly for virginity, all males share the blame. Angela’s appearance versus her reality is complex because while she has undeniably corrupt qualities, an admirable goodness shines through; the narrator acknowledges

This contrasts sharply to the attitudes portrayed in ‘A kind of love some say’. The last stanza of the poem shows the persona talking about emotional pain, ‘Sadists will not learn that Love, by nature, exacts a pain, Unequalled on the rack. This shows us that the emotional pain of love can be worse than the actual physical pain described in the poem. This shows the

In the poem, ‘Touched by an angel’ by Maya Angelou, she writes about how only love can make us feel strong. The line /We, unaccustomed to courage/exiles from delight/live coiled in loneliness/ speaks of how being afraid makes for an unhappy life (1-3). /Love arrives/and in its train comes ecstasies/old memories of pleasure/ancient histories of pain/ is about how love isn't all roses and sunshine- it brings its own agony as well (7-10). /Yet if we are bold,/love strikes away the chains of fear/from our souls/ shows that “Perfect love casts out fear,” which is a quote from the Bible (11-13). /And suddenly we see/that love costs all we are/and will ever be/ illustrates the true cost of love (17-19). /Yet it is only love/ which sets us free/ is

Angela is described as the prettiest of her four sisters and was considered well-named by Bayardo San Roman, who had admitted that it was the first impression of her name that had really caught his attention and was one of the main reasons he chose to marry her after taking just one look at her from afar. Her first name, Angela means “angel” (messenger of God) and her last name, Vicario is an actual last name in Spanish which means “a vicar” (a member of the church who exercises a range of pastoral responsibilities and is usually a representative of the Bishop). This is all quite ironic because Angela is not a virgin and thus, not pure. Her confession caused her brothers, Pedro and Pablo to seek revenge by terminating the man that had taken her virginity, which results in a violent tragedy which is not holy or righteous in any way. The death of Santiago Nasar had caused the brothers to face a lot of misery, only due to the order of their sister, Angela Vicario. By exhibiting this, Gabriel Garcia Marquez shows the hidden power of women that only Angela had in the Columbian society at that time.

The text ‘’Attack’’ teaches that you can get through tough times with your family. For example when Laine had to help with the little kids to help her mom, she did that because there was a lot of blood and the mom did not want the little kids to see all of that . Mom says,

Márquez uses the character of Angela Vicario to show the power women can possess over the men in their lives. Angela Vicario is arguably the most powerful character in the novel, as she is the one who tells her brothers that it was Santiago who took her virginity, which consequently sets the entire plot of the story in motion. After Angela is returned by Bayardo San Román to her family due to the fact that she is not a virgin, when her brothers ask who it was who took her virginity, Angela “nailed [Santiago’s name] to the wall with her well-aimed dart, like a butterfly with no will whose sentence has always been written” (Márquez 47). The way in which Angela searches for Santiago’s name shows that it may not have been Santiago who had taken

Angela Vicario’s blamed him for taking her virginity. People simply assumed that he was guilty and that the twins did the right thing to restore the honor of their family and their sister by killing him. The people did not even take

However, when her family tries to force a marriage of convenience upon her, the reader learns she is not exactly the goody too-shoes they expected. She is not a virgin, and in her society this is a shameful crime. Angela pretends like nothing is wrong however, until her wedding night when she decides to tell Bayardo the truth and is returned to her family in disgrace. Her mother takes her far away to live out the rest of her life in shame. Angela, however, realizes that she is now free from society's shackles and becomes a confident and happy woman.

Angela simply named Santiago Nasar as her lover but there was no other evidence besides her word to back that statement up. The narrator explained that "most of those who could have done something to prevent the crime and did not console themselves with the pretext that affairs of honor are sacred monopolies, giving access only to those who are part of the drama" (114). If the medieval idea that death brings honor is true, then it is safe to say Santiago Nasar died without honor for he did not know the reason for his death was. The Vicarios were poor Hispanics and the Nasars were rich Arabs, so social and racial tension was clear.

We learned that she does not love him nor did she wanted to marry him and the only way that would have happen is if she was not a virgin. She fake, she lost her virginity in society where virginity was highly valued. She was never alone. She go everywhere with her sisters or mother, work from home and she only talk to other women and had distrust of men and their intentions “No one would have thought, or did anyone say, Angela Vicario wasn't a virgin”. (37). Angale was destine to not have Bayardo as her husband until Santiago Nasar died because he was fated to be killed by the Victoire twins and the only that could have happened if something important was at stake and at this time virginty was very important to abtain honor in the society. The fact of the matter is she did not chose to be not a virgine but fate was planned which is beyond her control. In addition, when the twins demand the name of her lover or the man who took her virginity “She looked for it in the shadows, she found it at first sight among the many…” (47). This quote illustrate that she did not gave much thought to who took her virginty but said what came to her mind which fate is responsible. Basically Marquez wants the reader to make the connection that fate uses people or absurdity to achieve it’s purpose. Likewise, Angela had the option to fake her virginity but refuses to do it “They taught her old wives tricks to feign her

Pedro and Pablo Vicario killed Santiago Nasar for one reason- it was up to them to restore their sister’s honor by killing the man who took it away. The night of Angela’s wedding, her new husband, Bayardo San Roman, finds out that she is not a virgin. Soon after he returns her to her home, and her mother beats her and makes her answer the question of who was the one who took her innocence. Angela, in a daze, says the name ‘Santiago Nasar’. Her brothers then set out to kill him, to, at least, restore some of their family’s now marred reputation. The whole town seems to automatically understand the reasoning behind their plans. Clotilde Armenta, a shopkeeper, even says, “the horrible duty that’s fallen on them” (Marquez 57). By describing the act as a duty, the author implies the murder of Santiago is necessary. The fact that