Father Cayetano Alcino del Espirito Santo Delaura y Escudero was quite intense, he had deep black hair with a white streak at his forehead, good character, quick intelligence, and good disposition. In all of his thirty six he was always aware of his awkwardness with women. Father Cayetano was put in charge of Sierva Maria’s exorcism, but he falls madly in love with her. He is stripped of all of his titles and sent to work in a hospital but he still sneaks into the cloistered compound to visit Sierva through a secret passage long forgotten by the Abbess. He and Sierva speak of the life they will have together once she is freed, but Cayetano never tries to take matters into his own hands until it is too late. The tunnel is found and closed
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Just a basic overarching theme throughout nearly all of Gabriel Marquez books is the concept of solitude, all humans experience in one way or another and he manages to demonstrate this in various methods throughout many of his works. Each character feels alone, the Marquis at his home, Bernarda on the plantation, Sierva in her cell, and Delaura in the hospital. Every character in Of Love and Demons never really experiences true love except for Sierva and Cayetano Delaura at the end of the book. The Marquis never loved or was never loved by his wife, Bernarda found what she thought was love in Judas but it was not truly, and so goes the cycle. The dangers of passivity are also explored. First is with the Marquis, he never takes any action when he thinks he is in love with Dulce Olivia but his father forces him to leave her behind and marry Dona Ollala (who would die and then he would be trapped into marriage with Bernarda). Another example would be when Delaura took no action until it was too late. He was continuously traveling in and out of Sierva’s cell but never took her with him to freedom. He didn’t think to do it until after the passage way was discovered and it was all but too late. Both the Marquis and Cayetano had the opportunity for love but both botched their
Just a basic overarching theme throughout nearly all of Gabriel Marquez books is the concept of solitude, all humans experience in one way or another and he manages to demonstrate this in various methods throughout many of his works. Each character feels alone, the Marquis at his home, Bernarda on the plantation, Sierva in her cell, and Delaura in the hospital. Every character in Of Love and Demons never really experiences true love except for Sierva and Cayetano Delaura at the end of the book. The Marquis never loved or was never loved by his wife, Bernarda found what she thought was love in Judas but it was not truly, and so goes the cycle. The dangers of passivity are also explored. First is with the Marquis, he never takes any action when he thinks he is in love with Dulce Olivia but his father forces him to leave her behind and marry Dona Ollala (who would die and then he would be trapped into marriage with Bernarda). Another example would be when Delaura took no action until it was too late. He was continuously traveling in and out of Sierva’s cell but never took her with him to freedom. He didn’t think to do it until after the passage way was discovered and it was all but too late. Both the Marquis and Cayetano had the opportunity for love but both botched their