Chronicle Of A Death Foretold Machismo Analysis

The system of Machismo was, and still is, a system of social conduct. This system focused much more on honor than what today is viewed as right. Machismo was much more common in the past, especially in Latino and Spanish culture, when honor was more valuable, but traces can still be found in modern societies, even in the United States of America. Chronicle of a Death Foretold focuses on the fictional character Santiago Nasar, and takes place in a small village in Latin America and is set sometime in the mid 1900s. All the events of the story happen because of one simple reason, Machismo and honor. After Santiago is killed, though people are sad, they agree that it was defense of honor, and that was completely valid reason too. Santiago's killers, in the end, only receive three or so years of jail time for legitimate defense of …show more content…
In Gabriel García Márquez's Chronicle of a Death Foretold, the author shows that both men and women are hindered by Machismo's unspoken rules through exploring the death of Santiago Nasar and the fact that it was only for honor and nothing else to show that the system was unfair to everyone and should no longer exist, anywhere. The whole reason for this huge mess of an event, at least in today's society, makes to sense. The girl who indirectly caused Santiago Nasar's death had recently been engaged to Bayardo San Román. After their wedding, he discovered that …show more content…
Machismo was and is a system of oppression which could be more clearly seen in women, but also affected men and societies and groups of people as a whole. Thanks to Márquez's work, more people can see what a horrible system it is, and make an effort to remove it from their society, as almost all societies have little pieces of it remaining