What Makes A Death Foretold: Barbarity Vs Civility
Barbarity versus Civility
In the scheme of life, civility can be learned through a number of factors, including certain upbringing taught at home, school, and influences from society. But these factors also work the same in dictating barbarity within people. In Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Gabriel Garcia Marquez uses literary elements and techniques to convey the theme that even the most civilized people resort to senseless, barbaric acts. The usage of animal imagery in the novel describes the extent of how barbaric the people in a small town in Colombia can be. Victoria Guzman is the cook for the Nasar family. Victoria displays disdain toward Santiago Nasar. On the morning Santiago was murdered, Victoria was “disemboweling” a rabbit in the kitchen “…she remembered Santiago Nasar’s horror when she pulled out the insides of a rabbit by the roots and threw …show more content…
As Father Amador went through the autopsy report, the narrator comments on the state of the body, “…the priest had pulled out the sliced-up intestines by the roots…and he gave them an angry blessing and threw them into the garbage pail.” The fact that the priest pulled the intestines out by the root is ironic in a sense that priest only deal with evil spirits roughly, not a dead body. This is significant perhaps to show the reader that holy figures are not as peaceful as they are presumed to be. The narrator comments on Colonel Lazaro Aponte “…who had seen and caused so many repressive massacres, became a vegetarian as well as a spiritualist.” The colonel has been victim of witnessing so many barbaric acts that it had such a profound effect on him. The word “vegetarian” offers an inference in terms of animal imagery. The nature of the crimes he has witnessed have been bloody which is why he becomes a vegetarian. This is significant because it conveys how the influence of barbarity in holy figures can empower one to
In the scheme of life, civility can be learned through a number of factors, including certain upbringing taught at home, school, and influences from society. But these factors also work the same in dictating barbarity within people. In Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Gabriel Garcia Marquez uses literary elements and techniques to convey the theme that even the most civilized people resort to senseless, barbaric acts. The usage of animal imagery in the novel describes the extent of how barbaric the people in a small town in Colombia can be. Victoria Guzman is the cook for the Nasar family. Victoria displays disdain toward Santiago Nasar. On the morning Santiago was murdered, Victoria was “disemboweling” a rabbit in the kitchen “…she remembered Santiago Nasar’s horror when she pulled out the insides of a rabbit by the roots and threw …show more content…
As Father Amador went through the autopsy report, the narrator comments on the state of the body, “…the priest had pulled out the sliced-up intestines by the roots…and he gave them an angry blessing and threw them into the garbage pail.” The fact that the priest pulled the intestines out by the root is ironic in a sense that priest only deal with evil spirits roughly, not a dead body. This is significant perhaps to show the reader that holy figures are not as peaceful as they are presumed to be. The narrator comments on Colonel Lazaro Aponte “…who had seen and caused so many repressive massacres, became a vegetarian as well as a spiritualist.” The colonel has been victim of witnessing so many barbaric acts that it had such a profound effect on him. The word “vegetarian” offers an inference in terms of animal imagery. The nature of the crimes he has witnessed have been bloody which is why he becomes a vegetarian. This is significant because it conveys how the influence of barbarity in holy figures can empower one to