Machismo In Chronicle Of A Death Foretold

“While they were drinking their coffee Prudencia Cotes came into the kitchen in full adolescent bloom, with a roll of old newspapers to revive the fire in the stove. “I knew what they were up to,” she told me, “and I didn’t only agree, I never would have married him if he hadn’t done what a man should do.” Before leaving the kitchen, Pablo Vicario took two sections of newspaper from her and gave one to his brother to wrap the knives in.” (García Márquez, p.63).
With the above quote being a point of departure in the novel, themes are brought forward for further discussion, having the reader ponder on the ways of the Fates, machismo and collective guilt in Chronicle of a Death Foretold.
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The custom of machismo is fierce in a number of countries. Machismo is an essential element of Chronicle of a Death Foretold and can be found in the stress on male superiority in the story as well as on the sexual manner of the male characters. The males take pleasure in visiting Maria Cervantes's brothel, where they exploit the women there for their sexual pleasure. The men are not filled with guilt by their behaviour, because their culture supports such actions and desires. When Bayardo San Roman sends back Angela Vicario, he displays machismo; he insinuates that a woman is only worth marrying if she is untouched, and past that she is dirty and ruined. The Vicario brothers' killing of Santiago Nasar is in addition a machismo act. It is an effort to revoke Angela's honor by murdering the man who took her innocence. As the sequence of events in the novel id revealed, the harsh highlighting on masculine and feminine behaviour leads to prejudice. One man's machismo causes another man's; Bayardo's denial to accept Angela moves the Vicarios to murder Santiago without legal proceedings or