Isabel Allende's The House of the Spirits, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Chronicle of a Death Foretold, depict that the power of men had is actually an illusion. ... This women abused by men is also present in Chronicles of a death Foretold .At the beginning of the book, Victoria Guzman, the cook in the family, "had been seduced by Ibrahim Nasar in the fullness of her adolescence-(Marquez 8), even in her daughter fell victim. ... In Chronicles of the Death Foretold, Victoria Guzman, although at a lower social class, and was "tamed- by Santiago, she knew about Angela Vicario's bro...

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A look at the absurdity of society's values when justice is based on prejudice in Albert Camus' "The Stranger- and Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "Chronicle of a Death Foretold."" Both "Chronicle of a Death Foretold- by Gabriel Garcí Marquez and "The Stranger- by Albert Camus depict the ritualistic death of a character in order to portray the absurdity of society's values through the use of unconventional justice. ... In "Chronicle of a Death Foretold,"" author Gabriel Garcí Marquez portrays the irrationality of society's morals through the public s rea...

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