Summary Of Masculizing Gentle Madness

Masculizing Gentle Madness: Chronicle of a Death Foretold and/in the Congregation The twins, Pablo and Pedro Vicario, seem like the culprit but actually, Angela is controlled by the real villain; traditional expectations. She had pointed her finger to save herself from the expectations that are controling the town in Chronicle of a Death Foretold, by Gabriel García Márquez. Angela Vicario is the real, sole reason and she holds all the responsibility for his death but because of the traditions and expectations put on her by the society around her, she had no other choice. She had pointed her finger to save herself from the town’s traditions. This reveals García Márquez’s lesson that a society’s traditional expectations are metaphorically killing its own members. Angela had seemingly been inside of societies expectations, but at the first sign of being caught outside of those morals, she didn’t hesitate to blame it on someone else. She wasn’t very specific in how Santiago Nasar desecrated her, “she only took the time necessary to say the name.” However, Angela took her time to choose his name; to choose the name that would get her out of any
Their task was to find and kill Angela’s perpetrator: Santiago Nasar. The town had expected these two to carry out their tradition, even if it was to kill one of their own. Everyone in the town had known that Santiago had been targeted by Pablo and Pedro, but no one had told Santiago. The town had kept their mouths shut so that the twins intentions were not stopped. The town was never suspicious of their actions throughout that day either. The twins had snuck up on him, but “Santiago Nasar raised up his hand to stop the first strike from Pedro vicario, who attacked him on the right side with his knife pointed straight in.” (139) Santiago had not know that they were coming to kill him, or had known of any indications that he had done anything