According to Thinkprogress.org, about a third of women in America feel oppressed by society. About 166 million women live in the US so about 57 million women feel like they are looked down on by society. In Columbia during the 1950’s women were far more oppressed. In the book, a man by the name of Santiago Nasar, was accused of taking Angela virginity. Her two brothers, Pedro and Pablo, decided to kill Santiago to keep the family honor. They felt like they had pressure from society to go with the plan. After they killed him, deep down inside they known they had done what real men should do. In the Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the author illustrates the oppression of women through suppression and the high standards of men, in order to convey how the both men and women must meet the standards to become accepted into society. In the
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Angela would have never gone through this whole endeavor if this ideal of purity in society were never implemented. After she came home from confessing to him, Angela faces a brutal surprise. In Marquez’s words, “The only thing I can remember is that she was holding me by the hair with one hand and beating me with the other with such rage that I thought she was going to kill me,” (Marquez 46). Her mother, Pura Vicario, has raised her daughters with the goal for all of them to get married. As this was Angela’s only chance to get married, Pura has released all her anger out on to her daughter. In this society, a woman’s ultimate goal is to get married. As you can infer, if a woman does not get married society and even her family change their thoughts about her. The standard of being married was not met and as a result, Angela lived the next twenty years alone writing letters. One will be destined to have a terrible life if one does not meet society’s
Angela would have never gone through this whole endeavor if this ideal of purity in society were never implemented. After she came home from confessing to him, Angela faces a brutal surprise. In Marquez’s words, “The only thing I can remember is that she was holding me by the hair with one hand and beating me with the other with such rage that I thought she was going to kill me,” (Marquez 46). Her mother, Pura Vicario, has raised her daughters with the goal for all of them to get married. As this was Angela’s only chance to get married, Pura has released all her anger out on to her daughter. In this society, a woman’s ultimate goal is to get married. As you can infer, if a woman does not get married society and even her family change their thoughts about her. The standard of being married was not met and as a result, Angela lived the next twenty years alone writing letters. One will be destined to have a terrible life if one does not meet society’s