Gender in Chronicles of a Death Foretold

In Chronicle of a death Foretold, Gabriel Garcia Marquez utilizes the characterization of male and womanish characters to convey his condemning explanation of their roles in Latin American culture and their results on the lives of others in their society. Characters in the novel argon employed to turn up Marquezs condemnation of Latin American culture through with(predicate) their roles in different aspects of society. Marquez disapproves of machismo and displays it as a destructive entity that ruins people through its domineering characteristics. He withal condemns the want of power that women ready everyplace mens actions in society. San roman print and the Vicario twin impart be examined as the examples of Marquezs commentary and comment on machismo, and the women (Angela, her mother, and Maria Cervantes) exit be used to show Marquezs evaluation of the put up this has on women.\nMarquez employs Angelas family to portray the traditional family dynamic in Latin Amer ica. The parents decisive job was that a family dignified by modest means had no right to disdain that jimmy of mint. (Marquez 34) Marquezs condemnation on the marriage has the effect of creating a tragic and corrupt destiny for Angela. To the Vicarios, the decisions to make their miss the married woman of San Roman are make for the sake of their own security. It is a bartering deal: the parents say that they willing give their daughter up for the wealth and riches that San Roman is guaranteed to provide them. They use their daughter to marry their way into a life of destiny that will be given to them through the marriage. Marquez condemns this action through Angelas refusal to marry. She protests that there is a lack of love in the marriage. Marquez sympathizes with her by portraying her sadness as helplessness that is a result of the power that her parents have over her which overrides her opinion. Angela Vicario dared to only hint at the inconvenience of a l...