Chronicle of a Death Foretold

Sarah Winter Silver 1 World Literature 4/27/09 Angela Vicario is responsible for the murder of capital of Chile Nasar. Although it was her twin brothers that committed the actual crime, the reasons behind their murder come right away from their beautiful sister Angela. While it wasnt Angela who directly murdered capital of Chile, she is however as guilty as the rest. Angela is self-complacent and alike participated in the compendium of the murder of Santiago Nasar. The marriage between Bayardo San romish and Angela Vicario set a strong foundation for the murder. If the marriage between Bayardo and Angela had never occurred, Santiago Nasar would exempt be vital.Ever since Angela was a child, she faced a strong twinge to get married. The girls had been reared to get married. (Page 31) It is notable that Angela was the prettiest of her three sisters and several men coveted her. Many men were interested in marrying her, especially Bayardo San Roman, but Angela was not interest ed in marrying unless she was in love. Angela Vicario never forgot the horror of the night on which her parents and her older sisters with their husbands gathered together in the parlor, imposed on her the responsibleness to marry a man whom she had barely seen. (Page 24) Bayardo, on the other hand, was contumacious to marry her and in a hurry to do so. Their engagement lasted totally six months, and their marriage lasted not level one(a) night. No one would befool thought, nor did anyone say, that Angela Vicario wasnt a virgin. (Page 37) Her family was incredibly protective of her and Shed liberal up along with her sisters under the rigor of a mother of iron. (Page 37) Angela Vicario was detestably naive for going into this marriage without her virginity. She had been distressed but eventually listened to her devil confidantes. They assured her that almost all women lost their virginity in childhood accidents and that even the most difficult of husbands resigned themselv es to anything as long as nobody knew just about it. (Page 38) Apparently Bayardo San Roman was an exception. Only four hours after the extravagant conjugal union and dancing festivities, Pura Vicario (Angelas mother) was woken by three very slow knocks. Her Angela Vicario satin tog was in shreds and she was wrapped in a towel up to the waist. (Page 46) Bayardo San Roman was there to return his wife because she was not a virgin. Pura Vicario beat her daughter mercilessly and urgently ummoned her twin sons home. They found Angela Vicario lying face follow through on the dining style couch, her face all bruisedPedro Vicario, the much impellent of the brothers picked her up by the waist and sat her on the dining room table. All right, girls, he said to her, trembling with rage, tell us who it was. She but took the time necessary to say the name. She looked for it in the shadows, she found it at rootage sight among the many, many easily humiliated names from this world and the other, and she nailed it to the ring with her well-aimed dart, like a butterfly with no will whose sentence had unceasingly been written. Santiago Nasar. she said. (Page 47) Angela Vicario named Santiago Nasar as the perpetrator and whether he did it or not, Angela gave him a death sentence the moment his name escaped her lips. When Angelas brothers asked who took her virginity, she could have named any man in town. It is never confirmed nor denied whether Santiago Nasar had wind with Angela Vicario or not. However, if he was not the man to take her virginity, then why would Angela Vicario give his name? This raises many new questions, for instance, did they have consensual elicit? Did Santiago rape her?Were they in love but never had sex, and was Angela only if trying to protect Santiago? Or was the entire sexual take over made up? Marquez never answers these questions, and the reader has to make several inferences. The chassis of a butterfly pinned to a wall is symbo lic of both Angela Vicario and Santiago Nasars situation. Once she had stated that Santiago is the one who took her virginity, both of their fates became pinned. If Angela did not give her brothers a name, they would have become furious at her for defend the man who had dishonored her.She pins Santiago with her words, but she is also pinning herself by the sexism of the culture. The description of Angelas thought process when she spoke Santiagos name suggests that Angela is not only thinking of people who are alive but also those who are dead (many easily confused names from this world and the other. ) This is not a proven fact, but this strongly implies that Angela chose his name at random, which would mean Angela Vicario sanctioned the murder of an innocent man. deal almost all of the townspeople, Angela Vicario is complacent. There had never been a death more foretold. (Page 50) Everybody knew of the Vicario twins intentions, The Vicario brothers had told their plans to more t han a dozen people who had at peace(p) to buy milk, and these had spread the news everywhere before six oclock. (Page 58) Yet the only person out of the whole town to plan of attack stopping the Vicario twins was Colonel Aponte. The murder of Santiago Nasar never would have happened if Angela had through with(p) several things differently.If Angela had kept her virginity, the disaster never would have surfaced. Angela could have obviously given a different name, and Santiago would still be alive. It also would have been fairly easy for her to stop her brothers from murdering Santiago. Not only is she complacent in the murder, but she also gave the solicitation of murder. Pablo and Pedro Vicario are innocent they were murdering alone to protect their sister, something any brother would have done without a question. Angela Vicario is all the way responsible for the gruesome murder of Santiago Nasar.Chronicle of a termination ForetoldChronicle of a Death Foretold