...Antigone | Quote | Comments | Analysis | 1. "And now what is the proclamation that they tell of made lately by the commander, publicly,/to all people? Do you know it? Have you heard it?/Don't you notice when evils due to enemies/are headed towards those we love?"Line 8-12 | Antigone speak to Ismene about their brother Polyneices, that it is unfair to unbury him. Also she refers to the situation of the evil, cursed their father Oedipus who had been expelled outside from Thebes. | | 2. "Consider, sister, how our father died,/hated and infamous; how he brought to light/his own offenses.../Then, mother...did shame/violently on her life, with twisted cords [because she hung herself]/Third, our two brothers, on a single day.../Each killed the other, hand against brother'shand" Line 59-65. | Ismene explains to antigone that she’s afraid if they break the law they will suffering like the rest of their family, she remembers that her family filled with cursed. | | 3. "sought to taste the blood he shared with us,/and lead the rest of us to slavery--/You shall leave him without burial; you shall watch him/chewed up by birds and dogs and violated.../But he that is loyal to the state/in death, in life alike, shall have my honor" Line 220-229. | Creon ordered to leave Polyneices outside the Thebes unburied like a traitor and the animals would eat his body. He has no tolerance toward people who betray the Thebes. | | 4. "I did not believe/your proclamation had such power...
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...Maria Alejandrina Cervantes—Commentary—Chronicle of a Death Foretold “I dreamed that a woman was coming into the room with a little girl in her arms, and that the child was chewing without stopping to take a breath, and that half-chewed kernels of corn were falling into the woman’s brassiere. The woman said to me: ‘She crunches like a nutty nuthatch, kind of sloppy, kind of slurpy.’ Suddenly I felt the anxious fingers that were undoing the buttons of my shirt, and I caught the dangerous smell of the beast of love lying on my back, and I felt myself sinking into the delights of quicksand of her tenderness.” (89-90). Maria Alejandrina Cervantes, the voluptuous, tasteful, tender prostitute in Chronicle of a Death Foretold has more significance than meets the eye. Firstly, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the author of the book, uses magic realism in context with the character of Maria Alejandrina Cervantes in order to convey the notion of irony. After all, Marquez does indeed eulogistically portray whores as members of the upper classes. Throughout the book, there is a cynical tone and deathly images that lead to accentuate the negative effect of Santiago Nasar’s death on the society. Noting Santiago Nasar’s impact on the town, the book may be considered a symbol of the end of the world. This quote (referring to “I dreamed…out of my life.” [Marquez, 89-90]) amalgamates the motifs of dreams and magic realism regarding Maria Alejandrina Cervantes through the use of literacy devices to...
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...the surface of the pages to decipher the author’s message. It is as if the author’s are trying to send secret messages that only a thorough reader can uncover. This is especially prevalent in Marquez’s Chronicle of a Death Foretold. Its description and depiction...
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...Aibhi Biswas M.A English (Final) 4 November 2013 Two need to play this game: ambiguity in Marquez’s the chronicle of a death foretold The chronicle of a death foretold is an ambiguous novella in terms of genre, narration, resolution, aim and in terms of giving agency and power to the reader/ author. The novella can be seen as a parody, a suspense thriller and a detective novel of journalistic trend. The death is the central event but there’s no mystery regarding it rather completely different questions are raised. The aim of this paper is to show that the narrator is distinct from the author but sometimes they intersect. Thus Ronald Barthes statement that the author is dead is not completely true. The authors’ present but it’s not an omnipotent presence, controlling the universal subject (the reader). But this does make the reader all powerful. Barthes implies in his essay Death of the Author. The reader follows the patterns presented by the author but the final impression, overall opinion of the text and the reader’s reaction are not prefigured or controlled by the author. Thus the author and the reader together form the overall value of the text. Raymond Williams explains the formation of the category of Literature, its ever expanding and changing parameters\paradigms are explained in his essay Marxism and Literature. This paper will show the growing value of Latin American Literature, becoming a part of the literary canon, valued as a skillful piece of art. This...
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...Liam Rawson World Literature Assignment 1 An analysis of the role of minor characters in The Visit and Chronicle of a Death Foretold in establishing a collectivistic or individualistic society. March 13, 2011 Word Count: 1073 Rawson 1 Without any characters; there is no story. Every tale needs a knight in shining armor to save the endangered princess or a misguided hero to meet a tragic end. A protagonist and an antagonist are the most basic of writing conventions and are crucial to the story. It is important; however, to not overlook the roles of minor characters in the plot. For example, Snow White would have been a radically different story without the seven dwarves. This exemplifies how minor characters can drastically influence the outcome of a story in a number of ways. In both Durrenmatt’s The Visit and Marquez’s Chronicle of a Death Foretold, the minor characters have an influential role in determining the fate of the protagonist. These minor characters are used by Durrenmatt and Marquez to establish an individualistic or collectivistic society within their works and by doing so isolate the protagonists and lead them to their deaths. In a collectivistic society, the people tend to view themselves as part of a group and hold the needs of the group over that of the individual. This is the society which Durrenmatt has presented in The Visit. In Durrenmatt’s The Visit, the town of Guellen is populated by minor characters lacking any names. Throughout the...
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...In Gabriel García Márquez’s fictional text , Chronicle of a Death Foretold readers were introduced to a series of different perceptions that have influenced the development of the novel which provides prudent assertion. The perceptions of 1. dishonor, 2. honor, and 3. murder have played an important aspect throughout the novel when it comes to the analysis and examination of its own. The utilization of these perceptions have lead readers to accentuate that Márquez setups a fictional assimilation that gives the reading a realistic perspective which establishes a down-to-earth relation all throughout the developing of the novel. First of all, Gabriel García Márquez exploits the concept of dishonoring throughout distinctive parts of the novel...
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