Chronicle Of A Death Foretold By Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Machismo, Religion, and men degrading women played a big role in the cultural aspects in Colombia pertaining to the novel Chronicle of a Death Foretold written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. I learned this throughout the oral discussion my classmates and I were having. This class discussion made me more open to other people’s point of views and beliefs. My classmates and I concluded that machismo was a very big character trait and was normalized in Colombia’s society during the 1950s. Men were considered the superior group and more dominate than women. Men felt as they needed to show machismo, meaning extreme pride in masculinity. It seems as the male characters in the novel considered religion important, but they valued honor and the way the public
In the town, the story took place in, machismo was held to a very high expectation and was expected coming from all men. All men took masculinity serious so they weren’t viewed as less of a man. For example, the Vicario twins didn’t want to kill Santiago Nasar, but they felt obligated to do so, so they can defend their family name and keep their masculinity alive. As for the female population, women were dehumanized and belittled for simple the fact of being a woman. Men were put on a pedestal and women were considered irrelevant and was only good for being a wife and mother all while putting their goals and aspirations to the side so they don’t outshine their husband, or any man in general. Women were so caught up taking care of other people that they’d forget to worry about themselves and fight for a change. That behavior carried on for so long that women were viewed as the inferior group. Purisima de Carmen, Angela’s mother, devoted herself to taking care of family and husband that she would forget that she even existed. In the novel, men did not want to marry a nonvirgin since she would be considered “less of a woman” and “used