Machismo In Chronicle Of A Death Foretold

In Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, lures the audience into a murder investigation taken place the morning after a community wedding in Colombia. During the 1950s, the roles of women and men remained customarily separated in Colombian society, in which the relationship between the women and men consisted primarily of the women's reliance on the men. Consequently, public’s necessity for machismo (the strong sense of masculine pride)became a requirement for the role of men(). The exploitation of absurdity in machismo is revealed through the craft of unorthodox couples that participate in traditional roles. In Chronicles of a Death Foretold, Gabriel Garcia Marquez utilizes obligatory roles and loveless romantic pairings

Although Santiago Nasar was engaged to Flora Miguel to be married he remained confident in his infidelities. This is brought to the audience attention when Santiago felt no conviction when he announced to Divina Flor that “time has come for you to be tamed” as if it was Santiago’s obligation to take her virginity although he was betrothed(9). Infidelity was not uncommon when dealing with relationships in traditional latin american on the contrary it was praised and meant that although woman loyalty it was acceptable for the man to have no real dedication to the woman. Santiago Nasar and Flora’s relationship was a marriage of convenience which had proved to be an idea of obligation. However it was almost ironic how Santiago to on the “utilitarian concept of matrimony as his father” had did but abandoned the the martial responsibilities that came with it such as faithfulness(111). This implies that Santiago Nasar, like most men, referred to marriage a responsibility than a privilege, believing as it was what man ought to had done. Garcia-Marquez uses the “loveless letters” in Santiago and Flora relationship to signify their lost attempt at romanticism in their loveless engagement ( 113). Furthermore, Garcia-Marquez discloses the idea of that although man had made an attempt to do what they were supposed to do not their true intentions but rather an obligatory role they