Orozco Social Context

In this essay, female oppression in La Casa de Bernarda Alba will be discussed and analyzed. However, in order to be able to understand the importance of this theme and the impact it has had on the play, one must first understand the role of female oppression in the Spanish society in the 1930s.

The book’s main appeal and power is the author's use of Estrella, who serves as the focal point of all the large issues. In one particular scene, we see Estrella playing with one a naked doll. Estrella asks the naked doll if she was okay and then shook the doll's head “No”. This conversation with the doll can be seen as the sense of denial that takes place in a child’s mind that is not allowed to openly express herself, her fears, her anxieties, and her hopes. She allows the doll to represent her honest feelings about the lifestyle of living she is placed in. She is a unique and interesting individual, who will not grow up to be knocked down by economic issues, difficult labor, and especially men.

The author’s main idea and purposes are revealed by a series of anecdotes and allusions. The author gets very personal about the subject, as if she was going through the realization herself. You can see her opinion by the way she refers to certain things. For example, the author brings up an old memory from her childhood in paragraph nine. When she is describing the boxcar children, the words she uses are almost as if they were too

In the play by Federico Garcia Lorca, The House of Bernarda Alba, a recurring theme throughout the play is freedom. Lorca expresses freedom using characters, situations and objects. The characters in the story are Bernarda’s daughters who are under her control and have extremely little freedom and privacy by being forced to abide by her rules. Freedom and Repression are most significant themes conveyed throughout the play, the two opposing themes together are important to understanding both the characters and the story as well.

Within Valenzuela’s “The Censors,” the satirical theme of this story mocks Juan, his thoughtless actions and his letter are symbols for innocence and secrecy. Juan’s actions symbolize the innocence of childhood and those who haven’t experienced hardship, of those who are impressionable and naïve. Juan’s actions when he receives Mariana’s address and immediately “without thinking twice, he [… writes] her a letter” and sends it show his lack of

The society and setting are visible in this quote. The authoritarianism of the government it is visible in the way the Mirabal family and other citizens are oppressed to speak openly about the regime. An example of personification in which Patria expresses the beginning of her internal conflict and foreshadows doubt in her faithfulness and in her decision to not become a nun.

Cristina Garcia’s Dreaming in Cuban tells the story about three generations of a Cuban family and their different views provoked by the Cuban revolution. Though part of the same family, an outsider might classify them as adversaries judging by relationships between one another, the exiled family members, and the differentiations between political views. Although all of these central themes reoccur over and over throughout the narrative, family relationships lie at the heart of the tale. The relationships between these Cuban family members are for the most part ruptured by any or a combination of the above themes.

This novel measures the influence of an individual against human desires and the forces of nature. For example, Alexandra's relationship with the land summarizes the struggle between human desires and the larger forces than manipulate individuals. This difficult relationship between individuals and society is one of the most dominant themes and is depicted throughout the novel by using setting to reflect the characters.

Continuing in the theme of conformity; if the boys are united by their heteronomy, Cuellar’s castration, in contrast, is the source of his ostracism. His unfortunate accident is a wound that ‘time opens instead of closes’, and as the story progresses, Vargas Llosa juxtaposes the boys socially inclusive youthful pastimes of football and studying mentioned earlier in the novel with his comparatively solitary penchant for the ocean and surfing “a puro pecho o con colchón” (94) in chapter five. In this passage, his distance from the others is symbolised by the isolation of the sea; the narrator says the water “se lo tragó” (95) and later, the boys state that “se perdió” (96). Clearly, Cuellar’s failure to partake in the testosterone fuelled rituals of sexual maturity in the city has seen him shunned from the rest of the boys and resigned to hanging out with “rosquetes, cafichos y pichicateros” (96) instead – the modern, metropolitan outcasts. Evidently, Cuellar is incapacitated by this highly heteronormative lifestyle, as the inherent masculinity of the city is a fixed identity that will perpetually exclude him, or anyone else who cannot fulfil Peruvian societies idea of gender appropriate behaviour.

Lope de Vega’s play touches upon several key components and ideas that were brought up in many of the other stories read throughout the semester. This included the role of gender and how men and women are viewed differently in the Spaniard town of Fuenteovejuna. Another topic included the importance of family, love, and relationships and their connection on loyalty, trust, and personal beliefs. The last major influence found in other literature and in Fuenteovejuna, were the political and religious references made throughout the play. Even though Lope de Vega didn’t make these views obvious, the reader could still pick up on their connotation and the references made towards these specific ideas. With all of this in mind, each of these

In the beginning of Daniel Orozco's "Orientation," a new employee is getting a walkthrough of the office and instructions on how to survive the workplace. Throughout the story, the speakers provides instructions, such as where to put completed work and where to find the restrooms. Using the absurd, Orozco uses dark humor in "Orientation" to parallel corporate environments and paints a picture and the effects of working in a corporate office. Orozco's "Orientation" suggests that office environments are less than ideal and leads to detachment, unhappiness, and anxiety.

There are many situations in life, especially if you are an office worker, that make us wonder why we bother to show up to work every day. Ultimately bills must get paid and families need to survive, but who is really the beneficiary of the fruits of our hard work? Marxist critics will argue that the big executives of these corporations and their shareholders are the ones obtaining all the benefits, while the working class must suffer the daily grind of life. Daniel Orozco’s “Orientation” illustrate a portrait of what office employees must endure and the rules they must abide in order to satisfy the requirements of those flown down from the upper echelons of the corporate world.

The story I chose to write an argumentative essay on is “Orientation” by Daniel Orozco. The story describes what seems to be a man or woman’s first day of a new job in an office setting. A worker whom appears to have been working at the office for a while is showing the main character around and telling interesting life stories about the other coworkers. The author uses literary elements such as setting, tone, and point of view to create the theme of detachment.

In Daniel Orozco’s short story “Orientation,” a new employee is given a tour around the work area and is introduced to several workers in the office. Throughout the whole story, the narrator’s gender is never explicitly identified. The new employee is introduced to the different personalities and lifestyles of the workers in the office. The workers are all very unique and different from each other. The narrator in this story acts as if the personalities and lifestyles of the employees are perfectly normal. However, these characters in the reader’s eyes can be viewed as abnormal. In this story, the relationship between supposedly normal and supposedly abnormal is examined.

The main characters in the story are the narrator and the new employee being oriented. The narrator speaks in first person, “That’s my cubicle there” (Orozco), yet the reader is the new employee the narrator is speaking to, “…and this is your cubicle. This is your phone” (Orozco). Thereby, the narrator moves the reader through the office in first person and the reader sees the story through the employee’s eyes in second person. Both are static characters, showing no change or growth within the course of the story. The narrator, the character giving the orientation, is disconcertingly professional as he moves through the office describing protocols and disquieting, personal information on each employee. The theme of the Orozco’s Orientation is there is a story behind every person in the workplace, yet it is no place to draw attention to one’s self or allow personal tragedies, choices, or emotions to interfere with the work life.