Chronicle of a Death Foretold (Gabriel García Márquez) and The House of Bernarda Alba (Frederico García Lorca) :: essays papers

account statement of a Death Foretold, by Gabriel Garca Mrquez and The House of Bernarda Alba, by Frederico Garca Lorca People will do and say almost anything to protect their reputations. Their reputations become such a humongous part of their lives that their thoughts and actions revolve around protecting and maintain them. In Chronicle of a Death Foretold, by Gabriel Garca Mrquez and The House of Bernarda Alba, by Frederico Garca Lorca, the characters focus their lives on building and maintaining favorable reputations. Bernardas tone tot all(prenominal)y revolved around her reputation. The Vicario brothers got so caught up in laborious to regain the familys honor they were even willing to kill a man. Finally, In In a Grove, by Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Tajomaru, Takehiko, and his wife all took credit for Takehikos death. They did this to receive some honor and try to get around their reputations in a tough situation.Bernarda dedicates her life to insure that her family ha s a good reputation. She acts like this because she cares so much about what other population imagine of her. Bernarda is constantly regulating the things that her daughters can and cant do. After their dumbfounds death Bernarda privations to stick with tradition so she tells her daughters, during our eight old age of mourning no wind from the street will enter this provide She is forcing her daughters to shut out whatever social life they had to stay in Bernardas prison for eight years and mourn their fathers death. She forces her daughters to stay in the house because she infers that if she lets her daughters out people will think that they are not sad about their fathers death and Bernarda doesnt want to give people a reason to talking to about the family. Bernarda is so concerned what the neighbors think about the family that she tries to make sure that none of the familys business leaks out of the house, so the neighbors wont prolong anything to talk about. During a dispute in her house she says, the neighbors must have their ears glued to the walls. She is terrified that the neighbors may have heard something and now they will have something to gossip about. Bernarda is so concerned about the image of her family that other people see, she even tells her family what to wear. When Bernardas daughter Martirio is going to go out into the courtyard, Bernarda says, very well, simply dont take the kerchief off your head.