Death Foretold Symbolism

Chronicles of the Death Foretold Essay Sigmund Freud, a famous psychology, had a theory that dreams have symbolism in them or a underlying meaning, this theory is called Psychoanalytic Theory. People that are able to read those dreams and meaning are said to have a sixth sense, in a book it is considered magical realism. Gabriel Garcia Marquez wrote a book, “Chronicle of the Death Foretold”, he uses magical realism in his story. Santiago Nasar was murdered and the whole town knew it was going to happen, but couldn't stop it. Santiago Nasar was accused of deflowering a young lady named Angela, who was going to marry Bayardo San Román. After Bayardo dropped her off back at home after finding out she had been deflowered, Angela's brothers

As to what those symbols can be, they can be anything. But for Santiago Nasar, the symbols were his faith.Before he was murdered Santiago had a dream,"The week before, he'd dreamed that he was alone in a tinfoil airplane and flying through the almond trees without bumping into anything"(Marquez 3-4). Santiago Nasar mother, who was able to read dreams, said it was nothing to worry about.Even though the week before, Santiago had been having headaches. She didn't pick up on some of the symbols in the dream. The dream now plays a big part in the story, setting the main idea. The airplane was going through trees without hitting them. That is Santiago heading throughs his death without anything stopping him. The trees are the people. The dream was a symbolism for death and fate. The plane not crashing was explaining how not matter what nothing was going to change his fate. The trees symbolize the people and death, the major things the Santiago Nasar's mother did not catch. This is the dream that symbolize Santiago Nasar's death and the beginning of the mess that happen

Santiago Nasar didn't sleep good after that dream and kept having head aches. The night before his death, there had been a wedding. Santiago was dressed in all white for the wedding. The wedding had ran so late into the night that when Santiago got home, he fell asleep for an hour still in his close. When he got up, he kept them on. “Clotilde Armenta, the proprietress of the establishment, was the first to see him in the glow of dawn, and she had the impression that he was dressed in aluminum. "He already looked like a ghost," she told me"(Marquez 14-15). This is an allusion to his dream, Clotilde Armenta had said he look like he was dressed in aluminum. In Santiago's dream, the plane was made of aluminum, this symbolizing that Santiago was the plane in the dream. Then when Clotilde Armenta said he looked like a ghost, this was also an allusion to his death. This shows how the dream did symbolize his future. The dream was almost coming to life, he was looking like the meal that was in his dream, just like the plan symbolize him in his dream. Without Santiago knowing, that dream, if his mother understood it right, he could still be alive. The dream that symbolized the whole mess of Santiago death, could have helped stop the death of Santiago