Chronicle of a Death Foretold
The novel "Chronicle Of A Death Foretold" written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez was originally written in Spanish. The novel talks about a murder of the man Santiago Nasar, who was killed by the Vicario brothers, who tried to pay him back for damaging their family's honor by taking their sitser's, called Angela Vicario, virginity. In the next paragraphs question #3 will be discussed as a response to the criticism that the characters appearing in this novel are not clearly discribed and create a distraction than rather to help the progress of the story. Gabriel Garcia Marquez is an author known for the use of magic realism in his works. Also "Chronicle of a Death Foretold" includes many examples of Magic Realism. It is this tool, which Marquez uses to decorate normal scenarios, from a day-to-day life into unreal but fantastic worlds. The criticism of the novel explains that Marquez "is unable to populate it with characters who are realistic and lasting in the memory". It says that the novel lacks of real characters and that Marquez focuses more on describing the "setting and the mood" instead of going into more detail with the character's image. The next paragraphs are a response to this criticism, whi
The antagonist in this story is Angela Vicario, who was forced to marry the rich and so well respected Bayardo San Roman, who rejected her as he found out that his wife wasn't a virgin anymore. In other words, having the origin of this novel in mind, the reader should know that different cultures have different aspects of telling stories. Many characters appear and just as they came, they disappear again. In this case the protagonist is Santiago Nasar who was killed by the Vicario brothers, more for honor than anything else. Each character appearing throughout the novel contributes his own little part to the event, so that at the end this story is complete, by putting all this little pieces of information together. He creates an imaginary world that is so similar to our everyday life, and yet it is so different from it. This one of the ways the reader can learn about the society, which the author is showing us in his book. But the fact that the author focuses more on describing a mood, smell, or event (such as Santiago Nasar's death or murder) creates the main argument of the critic that the novel's characters "completely suffer". But, does the lack of descriptions of the characters really affect the actual story? The critic obviously doesn't include the fact that this novel is written by a Caribbean author and about a Caribbean small town. The fact that Angela Vicario didn't know what to write highlights the concept of the ritual of writing and receiving letters. This doesn't mean that it is 'correct' or 'normal' to not include more details about the main characters, but it shows us that for this particular novel the characters aren't the key point of the story, but more important the life and reactions of the town as a whole. "At first they were fiancee's notes, then they were little messages from a secret lover, perfumed cards from a furtive sweetheart, business papers, love documents, and lastly they were indignant letters of an abandoned wife who invented cruel illness to make him return" "Nevertheless, he seemed insensible to her delirium; it was like writing to nobody" These two quotes found on pages 109- 110, in which Angela Vicario explains the letters she obsessively wrote to Bayardo San Roman. It is rather the actions of each character that shape the novel instead of their individual personalities influencing the mood of the story. In other words, Love is defined by ritual. As one can conclude, the criticism of the novel "Chronicle of a Death Foretold" are not accurate enough and not fair.
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