Chronicle of a Death Foretold

Sarah Winter Silver 1 World Literature 4/27/09 Angela Vicario is amenable for the rack up of capital of Chile Nasar. Although it was her replicate brothers that committed the actual crime, the reasons behind their mutilate come directly from their beautiful infant Angela. While it wasnt Angela who directly off capital of Chile, she is just as guilty as the rest. Angela is complacent and besides participated in the charm of the murder of Santiago Nasar. The marriage amongst Bayardo San Ro earthly concern and Angela Vicario set a rugged foundation for the murder. If the marriage between Bayardo and Angela had neer occurred, Santiago Nasar would tacit be live(a).always since Angela was a child, she portrayd a unbendable pressure to get married. The girls had been reared to get married. (Page 31) It is nonable that Angela was the prettiest of her trio sisters and several men desired her. Many men were concerned in marrying her, especially Bayardo San Ro human being, b ut Angela was not interested in marrying unless she was in love. Angela Vicario neer forgot the execration of the night on which her parents and her older sisters with their husbands self-possessed together in the parlor, imposed on her the obligation to marry a man whom she had barely seen. (Page 24) Bayardo, on the other hand, was goaded to marry her and in a boot to do so. Their engagement lasted just sextet months, and their marriage lasted not even iodin night. No one would fuck off thought, nor did anyone avow, that Angela Vicario wasnt a virgin. (Page 37) Her family was incredibly protective of her and Shed grown up along with her sisters nether the rigor of a mother of iron. (Page 37) Angela Vicario was rottenly naive for going into this marriage without her virginity. She had been mad but eventually listened to her two confidantes. They guarantee her that almost all women lost their virginity in childhood accidents and that even the most rough of husbands re signed themselves to anything as long as zero knew about it. (Page 38) Apparently Bayardo San Roman was an exception. entirely four hours after the extravagant spousal relationship and dancing festivities, Pura Vicario (Angelas mother) was woken by three very slow knocks. Her Angela Vicario satin dress was in shreds and she was wrapped in a pass over up to the waist. (Page 46) Bayardo San Roman was there to present his wife because she was not a virgin. Pura Vicario impound her daughter mercilessly and urgently ummoned her partner off sons home. They found Angela Vicario lying face rase on the dining room couch, her face all bruisedPedro Vicario, the to a greater extent forceful of the brothers picked her up by the waist and sat her on the dining room table. All right, girls, he said to her, trembling with rage, tell us who it was. She lone(prenominal) took the time necessary to say the list. She looked for it in the shadows, she found it at number 1 sight among the ma ny, many easily crushed name from this world and the other, and she nailed it to the wall with her well-aimed dart, comparable a grind with no go away whose sentence had always been written. Santiago Nasar. she said. (Page 47) Angela Vicario named Santiago Nasar as the perpetrator and whether he did it or not, Angela gave him a death sentence the split second his name escaped her lips. When Angelas brothers asked who took her virginity, she could be possessed of named any man in town. It is never confirmed nor denied whether Santiago Nasar had sex with Angela Vicario or not. However, if he was not the man to pee her virginity, then why would Angela Vicario give his name? This raises many new questions, for instance, did they have accordant sex? Did Santiago rape her?Were they in love but never had sex, and was Angela solely trying to protect Santiago? Or was the entire sexual encounter look at up? Marquez never answers these questions, and the reader has to make several inferences. The image of a butterfly pinned to a wall is symbolic of twain Angela Vicario and Santiago Nasars situation. Once she had say that Santiago is the one who took her virginity, both of their fates became pinned. If Angela did not give her brothers a name, they would have go bad furious at her for protecting the man who had dishonored her.She pins Santiago with her words, but she is too pinning herself by the sexism of the culture. The description of Angelas thought process when she spoke Santiagos name suggests that Angela is not scarcely thinking of people who are alive but also those who are brain dead (many easily confused names from this world and the other. ) This is not a turn out fact, but this strongly implies that Angela chose his name at random, which would mean Angela Vicario sanctioned the murder of an bleak man.Like almost all of the townspeople, Angela Vicario is complacent. there had never been a death more foretold. (Page 50) Everybody knew of th e Vicario twins intentions, The Vicario brothers had told their plans to more than a dozen people who had gone to pervert milk, and these had spread the news everywhere forward six oclock. (Page 58) Yet the only person out of the whole town to attempt stopping the Vicario twins was Colonel Aponte. The murder of Santiago Nasar never would have happened if Angela had through several things differently.If Angela had kept her virginity, the disaster never would have surfaced. Angela could have just stipulation a different name, and Santiago would still be alive. It also would have been more or less easy for her to stop her brothers from murdering Santiago. Not only is she complacent in the murder, but she also gave the solicitation of murder. Pablo and Pedro Vicario are innocent they were murdering simply to protect their sister, something any brother would have done without a question. Angela Vicario is clearly responsible for the gruesome murder of Santiago Nasar. autobiography of a Death ForetoldChronicle of a Death Foretold