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Fidelity In Laura Esquivel's 'Like Water For Chocolate'

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Throughout life everyone has experienced fidelity, infidelity, betrayal, or loyalty at least once. However, many people do not realize that there can be more than one type of betrayal and infidelity. Betrayal and infidelity are not always present between husband and wife, but can also be between parents and children, between siblings with other siblings, and between yourself. Fidelity, infidelity, betrayal, and loyalty are all present in Madame de Lafayette ‘s book, “The Princesse de Clѐves,” and Laura Esquivel’s book, “Like Water for Chocolate: A Novel in Monthly Installments, with Recipes, Romances, and Home Remedies”. In Madame de Lafayette’s, and Esquivel’s books they are both illustrating how no matter what a person does they will always betray someone, and that is it okay to be loyal to other people even if doing so means betraying oneself? Madame de Lafayette was born in Paris in 1634 and died in 1693. Lafayette published “The Princesse de Clѐves,” in 1678. In “The Princesse de Clѐves,” Lafayette does a great way on showcasing the many ways betrayal can happen within relationships. In Lafayette’s book, there are many, many …show more content…

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