The Similarities Between Aura And La Llorona

Both Aura and the La Llorona stories based their stories around beautiful Mexican women who are tricksters. Aura seduces Felipe Montero and tricks him into falling love with her/Consuelo. Felipe is an exact likeness of the late General Llorante and so in a way Consuelo is searching for her dead husband. In La Llorona by S. E. Schlosser, the mother kills her children to get the nobleman to marry her. When the nobleman decides not to marry her because of the horrible killing of her children she goes to the river to search for her children. She betrayed her children by taking their life and in her sadness and regret she takes her own life in atonement. We can assume that she did love her children, and that now she searches for that love that she lost. Both women are depicted to be beautiful in their youth and have troubles

We don’t expect the stories to be as vile as they are. In La Llorona the weeping woman always kills her children. Women give life to their children, and the love of a mother and child is thought to be one of the purest forms of love. For the mother to murder her children intentionally is something that seems horrible. Children are symbols of innocence and life so when the weeping woman drowns her own children she is killing something that is innocent. In all of the La Llorona stories the children are drowned in water, but to my recollection there was no water in Aura. The house in Aura is dark and moldy. “…you can smell the mold, the dampness of the plants, the rotting roots, the thick drowsy aroma. There isn’t any light to guide you…” (11). Aura and Felipe are held in the house like prisoners. When Felipe takes the job he says that he must retrieve his belongings from his house, but they tell him not to leave that the servants will get them. At one point in the story Felipe asks Aura to go away with him, but she does not, as seen in the scene on pages