Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis

Dom Casmurro by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, and Chronicle of A Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez Works Cited Not Included Religion is supremacy, perfection and spirituality. A typical Latin American religious community heavily relies on religion to provide a moral framework to guide and protect its citizens. However, projecting religion in the light of perfection is superficial. In actuality, it often contains flaws underneath its idealistic teachings. The inadequacy in maintaining

Gender equality can be a very complex subject, throughout the years power has been correlated to gender. In Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, “The Rod of Justice” gender inequities are represented with a great level of complexity and difficult understanding. Throughout the text one can sense Machado’s involvement over authority and control, and how the characters portray this subject. The story is focus on Damiao, who is the main character. Damiao was seeking escape from his seminary obligations, and

In the story "The Attendant’s Confession" by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, the validity of “Guilt-ridden yet not confessing his crime” is acknowledged and is evident given that he accepted the inheritance despite being guilty and donates them to some charities. To begin with, Procopio found out that the colonel designated him to be the sole heir in his will, and guilt built up to him, but he didn’t bother to confess the crime he did. He accepted the inheritance from Colonel Felisbert, but he also

five stories. Each author from different countries has unique writing style in the five tales. For instance ?A White Heron? by Sarah Orne Jewett and ?Bartleby the Scrivener? by Herman Melville are from the United States. ?The Fortune-Teller? by Joaquim Maria

The article “American Short Fiction and World Story” by Alan Cheuse compares the old tales to the modern short story. To start the article he talks about the old type of stories by famous writer Homer. Here talks about how these books are written by the culture of the time. With that being said, he makes the assumption that the old time tales are only applicable to the time in history they were written. This is pretty obvious because in today’s world we rarely see the events that happened in such