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The play was the thing wherein I caught the conscience of the king -- that means I knew he was guilty.
San: Even if he was guilty, what did killing him serve? All there was left was a court in total disarray and a lot of dead bodies. You say your revenge had a purpose, but it didn't really. Revenge is only undertaken for personal motives -- being drunk and angry because you think someone took your sister's virginity, for instance. It has nothing to do with anything loftier. Indeed, it is this very perspective which produces the type of collective bloodlust that would seize my life. You have made yourself an executioner, perhaps as mad with assurance of his deeds as were those first committed some wrong.
Ham: That's not true! There was a method to my madness....
I needed to make a point -- a very long point -- to the rest of the world that the type of treacherous and traitorous behavior practiced by my uncle wouldn't stand. Mine would be the hand of justice.
San: But look at the fallout! Your mother: dead. Your girlfriend: drowned in a stream. Her father: stabbed behind a curtain. Her brother: dead. You: dead. The death could have ended with your father. Instead, your own need for revenge pushed everything to further destruction and death. And you have justified it with the steely certainty that is perhaps to be left only to the almighty creator. I see the sense of rationalization in you, just as I saw this sense in the woman who falsely accused me, the brothers who carried out the justice of her supposed honor and the
.. 'The only thing I prayed to God was to give me the courage to kill myself,' Angela Vicario told me. 'But he didn't give it to me (Marquez 41-42). Again, as with the men in the story, women place honor as more important that life. Pura Vicario does all that she can to preserve her daughter's honor, just as her sons will do all they can to restore it. Since
Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1982) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez is set in a small Columbian town. The novel revolves around the murder of Santiago Nasser for the defilement of Angela Vicarico. The importance of honor to the culture depicted in the novel is evident throughout the story. Santiago's murder is motivated and justified by honor. Honor has different values and meaning in the context of different cultures. In Chronicle of
One critic note the long-term change in Angela, stating that "she undergoes an extraordinary conversion and discovers in herself a love for Bayardo San Roman as tremendous and inexplicable as his for her" (Michaels para. 5). This change in Angela has to be as much a surprise to her as it is to Bayardo and the reader, but again, her choices are limited. Other females in the community have been
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