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World litterature assignment 1. Ærens betydning i Blodbryllyp og i Historien om et bebudet mord. Class: 3.I Word count: 1494 School: KAG 2007 Name: Bertil Kristensen Jessen - Historien om et bebudet mord af Gabriel García Márquez - Blodbryllup af Frederico García Lorca I 1981 udgav den colombianske forfatter Gabríel Gárcia Márques romanen Crónica de una muerte anonciada, på dansk Historien om et bebudet mord. Romanen handler om et caribisk landsbysamfund hvor ære og stolthed i høj grad betyder mere end liv, og dette koncept er ligeledes gældende for det spanske drama "Blodbryllup" af Frederico García Lorca. I de to værker finder mordene på henholdsvis Santiago Nasar, i Historien om et bebudet mord, og Leonardo, i Blodbryllup, sted og disse drab er begge motiverede af et ønske om at opretholde ære hos både de 3 mordere, og landsbysamfundene de lever i, som er med til at presse drabsmændene til at begå dem "Lad os så dræbe Santiago Nasar" (s.54) ytrer Pablo Vicario, i Historien om et bebudet mord, til sin broder offentligt, få timer inden brødrene dræber ham. Mordet bliver i retten forsøgt retfærdiggjort i og med at "Forsvaren hævdede det var manddrab i et legitimt forsvar for æren, som var tilladt af samvittighedsgrunde." (s.51). Dette viser at mordet på trods af at være fuldt overlagt, af samfundet ses som acceptabelt, på grund af
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Lekha Ravichandran Period O 2/18/09 Puritanical Principals Although Puritanism had some appealing points such as creating a successful community of individuals dedicated to follow idyllic principles, it also exhibited several very constraining points such as suppressing free will through strict and merciless consequences. The Puritans had a very typological view which help shaped their lives and conception of history. Religion controlled almost all aspects of their life where they tried to maintain a community in which people strictly abided by certain laws and punished all who disobeyed these guidelines. Hawthorne criticizes the Puritan society in the Scarlet Letter. In describing the first scaffold scene he writes, "it could have betokened nothing short of the anticipated execution of some noted culprit, on whom the sentence of a legal tribunal had but confirmed the verdict of public sentiment,"(45). This setting reveals that the whole crowd was there to witness a ruthless public punishment and portrays the beliefs of the Puritans at that time. A stranger describes the punishment for a sin as having "doomed Mistress Prynne to stand only a space of three hours on the platform of the pillory, and then thereafter, for the remainder of her natural life, to wear a mark of shame upon her bosom."(58) This person's tone shows the weight of moral values in Puritan society during
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