The Ruby
Challenging the Conceptualizations
In the short story “The Ruby” by Ruben Dario, we learn about characters like Puck and the chemist Fremy, and the old wise gnome, but is that all that lies within “The Ruby”? The real message being told is not how interesting and bizzare the gnomes are for having this obsession over legitimate and illegitimate rubies, but how science can not solve all problems we encounter, the idea that positivism is a hoax. Despite sounding so off topic as opposed to what the short story seems to be about, “The Ruby” by Ruben Dario in reality is a message to the nineteenth century belief that science can solve all problems, and can be applied to any problem we encounter in life, this idea of positivism. The middle ages were …show more content…
Then came the nineteenth century, where a scientific revolution occured and changed everything. A guy by the name of Porfilio Diaz became president of Latin America and persuaded all others to believe in the idea of positivism. Porfilio Diaz really had everybody convinced of this new idea, with his group of scientist in office to back him up, people gave in to the idea.
Ruben Dario being the intellectual that he is, critically thought for a moment, and decided that science indeed cannot solve everything, and he was going to prove it in his new modernist way of writing, hence “The Ruby”. In the short story “The Ruby” we are introduced to a character that goes by the name of Fremy, who happens to be a chemist. In the short story Fremy had discovered a new way of making the precious …show more content…
“‘I got up, took her in my arms, and gave her my most ardent kisses; but the blood continued to flow inundating the room, and the huge diamond mass became tinged with scarlet. ‘As I kissed her, I seemed to detect a perfume escaping from her burning lips: her soul; her body remained inert. ‘When our grand patriarch, the godlike centenarian from the bowels of the earth, passed through, he found that multitude of red diamonds. . . .” According to the elder gnome the rubies where created through the blood of the woman in love, this being spiritual, again deceives this view that science can solve it all. The human spirits existence is present in the short story, and it has proven to work wonders, wonders that challenge the dominant Latin American conceptualization of
In the short story “The Ruby” by Ruben Dario, we learn about characters like Puck and the chemist Fremy, and the old wise gnome, but is that all that lies within “The Ruby”? The real message being told is not how interesting and bizzare the gnomes are for having this obsession over legitimate and illegitimate rubies, but how science can not solve all problems we encounter, the idea that positivism is a hoax. Despite sounding so off topic as opposed to what the short story seems to be about, “The Ruby” by Ruben Dario in reality is a message to the nineteenth century belief that science can solve all problems, and can be applied to any problem we encounter in life, this idea of positivism. The middle ages were …show more content…
Then came the nineteenth century, where a scientific revolution occured and changed everything. A guy by the name of Porfilio Diaz became president of Latin America and persuaded all others to believe in the idea of positivism. Porfilio Diaz really had everybody convinced of this new idea, with his group of scientist in office to back him up, people gave in to the idea.
Ruben Dario being the intellectual that he is, critically thought for a moment, and decided that science indeed cannot solve everything, and he was going to prove it in his new modernist way of writing, hence “The Ruby”. In the short story “The Ruby” we are introduced to a character that goes by the name of Fremy, who happens to be a chemist. In the short story Fremy had discovered a new way of making the precious …show more content…
“‘I got up, took her in my arms, and gave her my most ardent kisses; but the blood continued to flow inundating the room, and the huge diamond mass became tinged with scarlet. ‘As I kissed her, I seemed to detect a perfume escaping from her burning lips: her soul; her body remained inert. ‘When our grand patriarch, the godlike centenarian from the bowels of the earth, passed through, he found that multitude of red diamonds. . . .” According to the elder gnome the rubies where created through the blood of the woman in love, this being spiritual, again deceives this view that science can solve it all. The human spirits existence is present in the short story, and it has proven to work wonders, wonders that challenge the dominant Latin American conceptualization of