Examples Of Machismo In Chronicle Of A Death Foretold

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Cierra Raynor The novel Chronicle of a death Foretold was written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. This works genre is fiction.The text was inspired by a real murder that took place in Columbia in the 1950s. This novel took place in the 1950s in a small Colombian coastal town. Violence and Brutality are shown to be an intrinsic part of life in the town because most people followed the culture of Machismo in this time period. Machismo is the practice of strong and aggressive masculine pride. Machismo can be seen as a great thing but everything comes with a price. Machismo can be seen as a great thing because it makes men braver, this attracts women because they want to be protected. For example after the murder took place Pablo Vicario marries Prudencia Cotes. She would have never married Pablo if it wasn't for his brave deed to win his sister's honor back. An example of when machismo can be a terrible thing is when Ibrahim Nasar raped Victoria Guzman as a teenager and how it became a pattern for the Nasar men to rape women in the town.Unfortunately, Santiago Nasar picked the wrong person to rape (not that there is a right person the sexually abuse) which ultimately brought him to his demise. …show more content…

Of course The Vicario family is poor and looking for anyway to better their living conditions. Once Bayardo makes it obvious that he is interested in Angela her family forces her to marry him even though she is not interested by him. After they get married he quickly returners her because she is not pure. This is another example of Machismo, if a woman is not a virgin before she is married she is seen as used and unworthy of a