Who Is To Blame For Santiago Nasar's Death

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"Trying to finish it once and for all, Pedro Vicario sought his heart, but he looked for it almost in the armpit, where pigs have it" (Marquez 118). What ultimately causes Santiago Nasar to sacrificially die? In Latin America, Pablo and Pedro Vicario are Angela's twin brothers who fully immerse themselves into machismo to defend Angela's honor after she is returned on her wedding night for losing her virginity beforehand. The blame is immediately placed on Santiago Nasar by Angela, a long time friend of the Vicario's who is known for sexual harassment to his servants and late night trips to the whorehouse. The race to murder Santiago in defense of honor occurs with no successful preventions from the townspeople. In Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the author illustrates how the Vicario brothers' ids were the primary motivators in the death of Santiago, in order to portray how brutality ultimately sealed Santiago's fate. …show more content…

One illustration occurs when the butchers discuss the extent of Pedro and Pablo Vicario's way of killing hogs in comparison to others, and if slaughtering might "reveal a soul predisposed to killing a human being" (Marquez 52). While the butcherers share stories of being haunted by their job at times and how they are particular about the circumstances they kill animals under, they recall how "the Vicario brothers sacrificed them same hogs they raised, which were so familiar to them that they called them by their names" (Marquez 52). This represents the drastic difference between the Vicario brothers and other butchers when it comes to butchering animals, thus illustrating their lack of a superego. The Vicario brothers show aggression, a lack of morals, and psychopathic tendencies. Therefore, there is reason to believe they were predisposed to act on their inner id and kill a human

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