Have you ever wondered how far a person would go to save their family’s honor? In the novella Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez‚ Bayardo San Roman finds out his new wife‚ Angela Vicario‚ is not a virgin which stimulates him to revoke their marriage. The humiliation generated by the absence of Angela’s virginity drives her brothers‚ Pablo and Pedro‚ to murder Santiago Nasar. Their motive for the crime is to obtain their family’s honor back. Gabriel Garcia Marquez depicts honor
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the society follow some of the laws of the bible religiously but other aspects are completely disregarded. One of the areas ignored is the sixth commandment: “Thou shalt not kill”. The Vicario brothers murder Santiago Nasar for the “honor of their family” but the community does not find this to be a sin. Angela Vicario’s virginity being lost was a major sin in society’s eyes and she was punished by her husband for her adultery. This aspect follows the seventh commandment: “Thou shalt not commit
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through almond trees.” (Page 2) Almond trees are symbols of virginity‚ divine favor‚ and purity‚ which could represent what he supposedly took from Angela‚ as well as the cause of his death. It is also symbolic that flying usually represents moving to the next level spiritually and‚ again‚ in a way foretells his
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Santiago is a definite womanizer himself‚ "nipping the bud of any wayward virgin" (Marquez 104). This follows suit with the town’s acceptance of the Angela Vicario naming him to be the one who deflowered her and subsequently dishonored her family’s name. Outdated beliefs are so embedded in the town’s traditions that the murderers‚ Pablo and Pedro Vicario‚ are eventually absolved of the crime and spend only three years in prison. The author comments on the irony of the situation by saying "There never
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the inability of the authoritarian forces‚ represented by government and religion. The death of Santiago can¡¦t only be attributed to single person such as the Vicario twins‚ Angela‚ Baynardo or Placida. To be more accurate‚ his death is the conspiracy of the crowd and a sacrifice under the traditional encomium to family honor. The Vicario twins have to kill Santiago in order to maintain their family honor‚ but obviously while they are spreading the news about killing Santiago around the town‚ they
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centres on the God-fearing townspeople allowing the murder of Santiago Nasar‚ which clearly contradicts the Christian commandment ‘Thou shalt not kill’1 Since female virginity is so venerated in the Catholic faith‚ when Santiago is accused of taking Angela Vicario’s virginity‚ her life would be worthless without it‚ and Angela’s brothers are charged with redeeming her honour. The novel can boil down to the assertion that a man died because of the teaching of both the Catholic Church‚ and the embedded
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narrated in journalistic investigative mode‚ it pieces together and recounts how the Vicario brothers set about and finally avenge the honor of their sister‚ Angela‚ who gets married to the wealthy and suave Bayardo San Roman in a lavish ceremony but is spurned on the wedding night itself and returned in disgrace to her parents because the groom discovers that she has already been "deflowered". Pushed against the wall‚ Angela accuses Santiago Nasar ‚ another wealthy inhabitant of Arab descent ‚ of
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emphasizes the central conflict of society versus the protagonist‚ based on beliefs and values‚ through the controversy leading up to the murder of Santiago Nasar‚ which is based on family honor and pre-marital sex. When Pedro and Pablo Vicario ask their sister‚ Angela Vicario‚ who had stolen her virginity‚ her response is described as “She only took the time necessary to say the name … and she nailed it to the wall with her well-aimed dart‚ like a butterfly with no will whose sentence has already been
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Tawney Knecht IB World Literature 27 October 2010 The Rationality of Murder The theory of cognitive dissonance is a prevalent driving force in human nature that people often fail to acknowledge. Cognitive dissonance suggests that when faced with conflict‚ people are capable of manipulating ideas in order to rationalize their actions. This concept is put to the ultimate test when the people from the unnamed town in Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Chronicle of a Death Foretold and the boys from
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5) She’s a prostitute‚ and she is described several times with animal imagery‚ including being called a ‘beast of love’ (71). This connects her with the animal imagery that occurs throughout the novel‚ including descriptions of the pigs that the Vicario twins slaughter for a living and the bird imagery used to describe Santiago Nasar. The effect of the animal imagery attached to Maria is to connect her to a sensual side of human nature. The animal imagery isn’t degrading; Maria is never described
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