Enormous Wings Allegory

A very Old man with Enormous Wings by Gabriel Garia Marquez is a religious allegory that is represented with the author’s use of literary devices to express his feelings about the Christian religion. Marquez mocks the believers of God and their true lack of faith, which is represented with metaphoric allusions resembled in his story. He reveals the ignorance of believers, which repetitively happened since the Old Testament, the doubt that occurred towards prophets of God especially the Messiah. He exposes the criticism and the harsh punished, that was afflicted on people because they, themselves, simply didn’t have faith in their religion; that they praised. The religious allegory was emphasized when the old man with enormous wings went through …show more content…
“Especially during the first days, when the hens pecked at him, searching for the stellar parasites that proliferated in his wings, and the cripples pulled out feathers to touch their defective parts with, and even the most merciful threw stones at him, trying to get him to rise so they could see him standing”(Marquez3). Found in (Luke 22:63), the guards mocked Jesus by beating and shouting “ prophecy!” as compared to the villagers beating the angel to be more “angelic”, to be more like what they imagined and do as they wanted him to …show more content…
Marquez used every trail found in the book of Luke that Jesus had to go through to renew the world and revised it to fit in his story, to show his Christian readers the doubt they have in their religion . The story expressed the same aspects but I a different decade, that this type of situation will happen again and people will still do the same as they did years before. People will still never learn from old mistakes and this will happen until the very end of time on this