نویسنده
دانشگاه تهران، تهران
چکیده
کلیدواژهها
عنوان مقاله [English]
نویسنده [English]
“Tear this heart out” (1986) and “The death of Artemio Cruz” (1962). The narrative of these two works have as a background the social events that happened during the Mexican Revolution in 1910, which lasted many years and that in fact, was used as the stage and theme of many famous Mexican writers in their narratives.
The two writers denounce robbery, cheatings, lies, back stabbings, corruption, hypocrisy and more. Also, both writers portrayed their main characters to the readers, one of a man and the other of a woman, as people anchored in the period of the Mexican Revolution. In other words, both are shown to be the product of that period of time. The creation of time shaken by internal fights in a country in which, each generation had to eliminate or get rid of the old owners and to substitute them for new ones as ambitious and ruthless as the previous ones.
Never the less, the subject to discuss in this paper is the role that play the two women, the one in “Tear this heart out”, that is in a position of liberating the oppressed woman that achieves control of her live and destiny and of the woman of “The death of Artemio Cruz”, that complies with the symbolic function that is reserved for her as the successor of a social and cultural baroque mandate. In other words, both are women that in different ways, given their circumstances, fight over the hegemony of their husbands.
کلیدواژهها [English]