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CRONICA DE UNA MUERTE ANUNCIADA Religious Imagery as Satire : The Annunciation Legend of Juan Diego (Virgen de Guadalupe) The Passion of Christ (Stations of the Cross). Virgen de Guadalupe. Stations of the Cross. Parody.
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CRONICA DE UNA MUERTE ANUNCIADA • Religious Imagery as Satire: • The Annunciation • Legend of Juan Diego (Virgen de Guadalupe) • The Passion of Christ (Stations of the Cross)
Parody • Mock Greek Tragedy: fate, dramatic irony, tragic hero, hamartia, hubris, scapegoat, chorus • Dionysian festivities: the three-day wedding/sacrificial rites • Duality (saints/sinners) • Mock Investigative Reporting---“chronicle” of time and weather and insignificant details (Memorable line: “…trying to put the broken mirror of memory back together from so many scattered shards.”) • Tone: mock serious “tongue in cheek” • Humor (hyperbole/understatement) • Mock Romance (bathos)
Epigraph: • “Love is like falconry.” • Who are the falcons? • Who are the falconers? • “Honor is love” • “Love can be learned” • “Love is a disorder”
Setting: Colombia, South America (1920’s?) ·Cultural beliefs, values, and traditions Gender roles Machismo/Virginity Family Honor/Duty Catholic/Pagan/Superstitions ·Names: Christian Saints/Arabic/Pagan ·Imagery-violence, religious, animals, trees, birds, water, flowers, poop ·Scapegoat/Collective Rite of Sacrifice
MAGICAL REALISM=saying something fantastic with a straight face; responding to something fantastic in a matter of fact way; often juxtaposes hyperbole and understatement. • Santiago’s dreams • (hyperbole) bullet shattering saint • Placida Linero’s eternal headache • The smell of Santiago permeates the village • Santiago’s “crime” and death • “There had never been a death more foretold.”
FIRST FAMILY AND ASSOCIATES • oSantiago Nasar (machismo) HIS NAME? • o Placida Linero (Santiago’s mother, interpreter of dreams—not!) • oIbrahim Nasar (Santiago’s father) HIS NAME? • oVictoria Guzman (the cook) • o Divina Flor (cook’s daughter) HER NAME? • oCristo Bedoya (Santiago’s best friend) NAME? • oFlora Miguel (Santiago’s fiancé) NAME? • Maria Alejandrina Cervantes (IRONY?)
THE SECOND FAMILY: (HYPOCRISY!) • Pedro and Pablo Vicario (the macho twins) Trace their actions (duty!) • oAngela Vicario (their sister, the alleged virgin) • oPurisima del Carmen (mother) • oPoncio Vicario (blind father)
THE THIRD FAMILY: ties to the other two • (POSTMODERNISM) • The Narrator: “Gabriel?” Garcia-Marquez • Luisa Santiaga (his real mother/Santiago’s godmother) • Margot (Marquez’s real sister) • Mercedes (Marquez’s real wife) • Other family members (real names)
THE FOURTH FAMILY • Bayardo San Roman—whatever Bayardo wants, Bayardo gets: music box, Xius’s house (subtext?), Angela • Silver and gold, “enchanting,” “a fairy,” “a devil,” superhuman, rich, knows Latin • How does he win over the Vicario family and the other villagers? MONEY!
Cult of death: Angela dressed in black Cult of virginity: artificial flowers? Angela: “He’s too much of a man for me.” Angela’s mother: “Love can be learned.” Angela’s “stain of honor” (p. 37) San Roman family vs. Vicario family (p. 39-40) The wedding day/night Santiago=no flowers at his funeral Butterflies/wings/angels/holy spirit/birds
DOUBLE STANDARD • Pablo and Pedro: “We killed him openly, but we’re innocent.” • Retracing their steps: “There had never been a death more foretold.” Trace the behavior of every villager. • Duty and Honor/Macho Men and Virtuous Women • Prudencia Cotes, Pablo’s fiancée: “I knew what they were up to, and I didn’t only agree, I never would have married him if he hadn’t done what a man should do.” • Narrator to Santiago about Maria: “A falcon who chases a warlike crane can only hope for a life of pain.” • Serenading the newlyweds
PARODY: Autopsy and Romance • The autopsy: They massacre him all over again. The medal in Santiago’s intestines=“virgin del carmen” and “the stigma of the crucified Christ.” • Maria eats! (Like a Babylonian whore.) • Aftermath: The Vicario family • Bayardo, the victim. • Xius’ house (holy spirit or caged bird)? • Angela’s testimony 23 years later (page 89-90). • Her friends: “She told us about the miracle but not the saint.” • Angela and Bayardo (Falcon/Falconer?)
SANTIAGO’S FINAL MOMENTS=SCAPEGOAT=DIES ON THE “ALTAR”=A PIECE OF MEAT OR DIVINE BEING? • Twelve days after crime, investigator called for troop reinforcements to control the crowd pouring in to testify, each one eager to “show off his own important role in the drama.” • Metafiction: Investigator never thought it legitimate that life would make use of so many coincidences forbidden literature. • Investigator: no proof that Santiago deserved to die: “Give me a prejudice and I will move the world.” • Santiago’s very behavior during his last hours was proof of his innocence (page 101)