Self Fulfilling Prophecy In the story, "The Judge's Wife," by Isabel Allende; Nicholas Vidal, the son of Juana, the Forlorn, came in to the world regardless of the countless tries of violent abortions. Vidal was born with four nipples; therefore, the mid-wife predicted that Vidal would lose his head over a woman. This same prediction was later confirmed by a Turkish fortune teller at the corner shop. Vidal lived his whole life cold and ironed-hearted too all women. This included his mother. Vidal avoided contact with women so that the prophecy would not come true. In the end, faith caught up with him in any ways. Near beginning of the story, Vidal did not feel that Casilda was attractive. He describe her as, "This ethereal slip of a girl in her wedding gown, eyes filled with wonder, and fingers obviously unskilled in the art of rousing a man to pleasure, seem to him almost ugly." Vidal preferred his women with dark hair. He never would have known that Casilda would cause him to lose his life. His mother was treated the same as any other women. When the judge decided that he needed to capture Vidal, the judge used Vidal's mother as "bait." Locked in a cage in the center of town without food and only a pitcher of water, Vidal's mother begged and suffered tremendously. Three days without water Vidal's mother could not begged any more. She laid helplessly in the cage. This sight for any son would be unbearable. Vidal did not come. Perhaps, Vidal did not have any contact with his mother over the years. He may have hated his mother for trying to kill him at birth. He knew if he tried to save his mother it would be his death. Maybe that was why Vidal did not save his mother. Vidal wanted to kill the judge for revenge after his mother's suicide. His mother was ashamed that her own flesh and blood did not even come to save her, so she committed suicide. Vidal planned to put the judge to a g...