Like Water For Chocolate Romeo and Juliet and The West Side Story , both romantic sagas that unfold into a struggle between love and family tradition and ways. In the two stories a young girl and a young man from different paths find each other and fall in love, and in both, they are forbidden by either family to be together. In the agony of being forced to live apart the lovers eventually come to a point where they can no longer be without one another. Their love is so strong that regardless if they defy their families’ wish, they will do anything to be together, even if this includes death. These European and American stories of the tragic effect of a love so strong that it can kill sets the table for the Mexican film Like Water For Chocolate. This movie tells about desire, love, and rebellion, and is centered around the love of Tita and Pedro, and the struggle of Tita’s family tradition that does all it can to keep them apart. In this movie we are given an opportunity to see how the attitudes of the characters change over time and how true love, once revealed, can never be held. In the early years of the twentieth century, on a small ranch in Mexico, the story of three sisters and their repressive mother unfolds, and Like Water For Chocolate begins. Tita is the youngest daughter of Mama Elena, and, as such, because of a family tradition, she is forbidden to marry or have children until after her mother's death. Tita is agreeable to this situation until she falls in love with the dashing young Pedro. Tita goes to her mother to tell her of Pedro’s intention to meet with her and ask for her daughter’s and his love’s hand in marriage. Mama Elena is angered by this announcement and upon meeting ... ... middle of paper ... ...ura marries. Unfortunately, during their love making, Pedro dies and in the spirit of Romeo and Juliet and The West Side Story, Tita kills herself. An admittedly unusual title for a film, Like Water for Chocolate fits the mood -- odd, playful, and sweet. It equates the boiling point of water for hot chocolate with the height of passion. Told by Tita’s great grandniece this is a story with occasional surrealistic fantasy sequences interspersed between the commonplace goings-on of regular lives, and the film weaves a subtle spell of enchantment until a disappointing conclusion. I believe that this was one of the most beautiful stories of love and its power that has every been told. Even though this is a foreign movie with sub-titles, it is such a strong story that you easily forget that it is in Spanish. This is truly a Romantic classic of all times.
The themes explored in the novel illustrate a life of a peasant in Mexico during the post-revolution, important themes in the story are: lack of a father’s role model, death and revenge. Additionally, the author Juan Rulfo became an orphan after he lost
She eventually breaks down and meets John Brown, the family doctor, who recovers her until she finds happiness again after Mama Elena's death with Pedro. Overall, Tita goes through a very dynamic change in the story which obviously entitles her to be a main character. 2. Mama Elena Quote: "Besides insisting that Tita taste the food in front of her, she [Mama Elena] always had a glass of warm milk to counteract the effects of the bitter poison that according to her was dissolved in the food." (Pg. 135) Write-up: Mama Elena is a stern and bitter woman who oppresses Tita to be her caretaker through the family tradition.
To understand fully the implicit meaning and cultural challenges the film presents, a general knowledge of the film’s contents must be presented. The protagonist, Tita, suffers from typical Hispanic cultural oppression. The family rule, a common rule in this culture, was that the youngest daughter is to remain unwed for the duration of her mother’s life, and remain home to care for her. Mama Elena offers her daughter, Tita’s older sister Rosaura, to wed a man named Pedro, who is unknowingly in mutual love with Tita. Tita is forced to bake the cake for the wedding, which contains many tears that she cried during the process. Tita’s bitter tears cause all the wedding guests to become ill after consuming the cake, and Tita discovers she can influence others through her cooking. Throughout the film, Tita’s cooking plays an important role in all the events that transpire.
To conclude, in both pieces their displays to different ways a child could love their father. It necessarily doesn’t mean it right. But regardless of how the children feel about their fathers, the father love for his child is pure and unconditional. There is nothing that can get in the way of that, not even the mother of the child.
Mama Elena attributes to the acting of men, she acts like she is overprotective over her daughters which gives her the right for her daughters to demand respect and follow her rules. When Rosaura and Mama Elena died, Tita was strong enough to leave everything in the past, including Pedro, and started a new relationship with John.
"Romeo and Juliet". The play is not a simple love story; it is as much
When Pedro comes to ask for Tita’s hand in marriage, Mama Elena tells her that she will not marry him because she is to look after her mother until the day she dies. Tita tries to tell her mother her opinion on why she should marry him, but her mother will not have it. Mama Elena speaks to Pedro and his father, telling them “But if you really want Pedro to get married, allow me to suggest my daughter Rosaura, who’s just two years older than Tita. She is one hundred percent available, and ready for marriage...” (13). She said Rosaura was more prepared, and more responsible. Pedro agrees to marry her, but it is only so he can be near Tita. Tita is 100 percent against this marriage. She is mad at her mother, her sister, and especially Pedro. She is the first one who rebelles against her mother; her mother was tries to get Tita to break, but she will not show any weakness when her mother is around. Since her mother has arranged Pedros and Rosaura’s marriage, t...
One of the primal themes that Shakespeare displays coercible throughout the play is love. In Romeo and Juliet, their love is initially the prelude to a lot of complexities as their families dissension divides them. Shakespeare’s poetic narration’s illustrates a compelling love story that contrives the importance of its true meaning, and has since influenced many other authors that have adapted the same idea into more modern contexts. For example,
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The title Like Water for Chocolate is significant because it symbolizes Tita’s emotions. When Tita was describing how to make hot chocolate, she said, “when the water comes to a boil for the first time, remove it from the heat. When it comes to a boil again and starts to boil over, remove it from the heat.” The high temperature of the water is crucial to the melting of the chocolate, so when Tita describes her emotions as “like water for chocolate” she is describing the intensity of her emotion (passion and anger).
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