Who Is Angela In Chronicle Of A Death Foretold

The Trojan war was one of the largest wars in history. It pitted the Greeks versus the Trojans in a battle for the city of Troy and lasted ten long years. This war saw the rise and fall of many heroes including Hercules. However, the war was caused by one single emotion that worked as the motive and motivation for the deaths of thousands. The emotion of love can drive normally rational people to do completely irrational things. Similar to how the Greeks attacked Troy in the name of love the Vicario brothers attack Santiago Nasar in Gabriel García Márquez’s novel, Chronicle of a Death Foretold. In his novel, Márquez portrays a few unforgettable days in a small Mexican town. Throughout the novel, Márquez tries to illustrate how Angela is driven by love to protect her true love, but while doing this sentences an innocent man to death. Márquez uses these events to depict that Angela is a bad person and a liar, which is seen by how Márquez writes critically of the small town girl.
The first sign that Márquez shows to indicate that Angela is a bad person is the fact that Angel allows other people in her family and town to dictate who she should marry when she should marry, and why she should marry. Angela is described as “a poor woman devoted to the cult of her …show more content…
Márquez repeatedly shows that he does not approve of the character he created and thinks that Angela is a bad person. Márquez writes “Angela Vicario was protecting someone who really loved her and she had chosen Santiago Nasar” (Page 53). The tone that Márquez uses in this passage illustrates the fact that he believes that Angela should have told the truth about who really took her virginity instead of blaming it on an innocent man, which sentenced him to death. The fact that even Márquez himself believes that Angela is a bad person further proves that Angela is a bad