Santiago Nasar Death Essay

Although the direct murderers of Santiago Nasar was Pedro and Pablo Vicario, others were also involved in the murder of Santiago Nasar as well. It may seem that Pedro and Pablo Vicario should be the ones guilty of Santiago Nasar’s death, however, in fact, the whole town contributed to the death of Santiago Nasar. In this novel, Gabriel García Márquez brings to light the flaws in the society. In society, many people tend to observe instead of acting in urgent events. When people put aside the problem and assume that the problem is already taken care of, it results in negative or undesired consequences. Gabriel García Márquez uses this novel to bring awareness and criticize the society and its passivity which causes tragic and unwanted events …show more content…
The smell symbolizes the guilt of the people in the town and the mourning for Santiago Nasar. Márquez includes this device because it shows how hard it is for the people in the town to think about Santiago Nasar after his death because the town knows that what happened to Santiago Nasar was partially their fault even though they did not directly kill him. Instead they feel guilty because they knew that they contributed to the death of Santiago Nasar. In addition, Márquez includes dramatic irony when he includes how the people of the town assumes that Santiago Nasar was not in danger anymore and “‘...thought it all had been a fib’... No one even wondered whether Santiago Nasar had been warned, because it seemed impossible to all that he hadn’t” (Márquez 19-20). This is dramatic irony because the characters think that the plan would not come through or that it was just the drunkenness from the wedding talking. However, the reader knows that it is not a fib and that the Vicario brothers do indeed kill Santiago Nasar. Márquez includes dramatic irony in the novel to show how even though people in the town knows that Pedro and Pablo Vicario were planning to kill Santiago Nasar, they are reluctant to believe it and assumes