Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Honor Code Analysis

In addition to virginity being so important, Gabriel Garcia Marquez made the honor code a big idea to follow in the Colombian town. The main reason that Pedro and Pablo Vicario killed Santiago Nasar was because they wanted the wrong that Nasar did to their sister to be righted; revenge is what they wanted in order to clear her name. Gabriel Garcia Marquez states on page 49 ““We killed him openly,” Pedro Vicario said, “but we’re innocent.” “Perhaps before God,” said Father Amador. “Before God and before men,” Pablo Vicario said. “It was a matter of honour”” Pablo Vicario is telling Father Amador about why he and Pedro killed Nasar because they were brought up with the honor code and that the code was the most important traits in their society to have. Not one person in the Colombian
It was a common a thing to fight for one’s or family’s honor due to the belief that the harshness of an immoral action like taking a female virginity before her marriage deserved a cruel punishment. Furthermore, the fact that death was considered a reasonable vengeance when immorally taking a girl's virginity indicates how awful it was to sleep with an unmarried woman in the Colombian town. Compare to the western world such as countries like the United States, still in the 1950s traditional ideologies like the actions the Vicario took were seem wrong and not exercised. In the United States, it is less likely that the woman’s brother would go murder the perpetrator such crime would be a first degree murder. The brothers would be charge with many years in prison and not like how the Vicario brothers were treated softly by the Colombian judge. In overall, Pablo and Pedro Vicario were largely excuse for their inhumane actions on Santiago Nasar because they murdered Santiago in order to stand by their sister's