In The Time Of The Butterflies Vs Slaughter House Essay

Out of the many short stories we have read over the past few weeks, the one that is most comparable to the movie “In The Time of the Butterflies” would have to be “The Slaughter House” by Esteban Echeverria. They both posses a similar message of covering the topic of the rule of a dictatorship, but in a couple of different ways. Despite the differences between Echeverria’s “The Slaughter House” and the movie adaptation of Julia Alvarrez’s novel, they both do a great job of depicting the reality of Latin America after colonial times and under the rule of tyrants. The theme of both works is most definitely the impact that a tyrannical rule of a dictatorship has on the people. However some noticeable differences between the two would have to be how Echeverria’s story covers how the people acted towards each other under the rule of the Rosas dictatorship in Argentina. Whereas the movie depicts how Trujilo’s rule would directly interfere with people’s lives, including Trujilo himself. In one scene of the movie we see Trujilo personally picking up a young blonde girl to act as his concubine. As opposed to “The Slaughter House” where only a couple of officials of the Rosas dictatorship are seen. …show more content…
Their purpose being a way of portraying the innocent peoples of Argentina who were being abused by the Federalists and their supporters for selfish intentions. In the movie adaptation one of the constant images is most definitely Minerva, she is on screen for almost the entire run time of the film because the movie was made to depict the dictatorship from her perspective. She serves as both a protagonist of the story as well as a symbol for people to rally behind as seen in one scene in a church where the priest and many other church goers whisper to her the phrase, “Long live the butterfly.” She herself acts as a symbol for freedom and resistance against the