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Chronicle of a Death Foretold

In Anton Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard and Gabriel García Márquez’s Share of a Death Foretold, both protagonists encounter difficult, if perhaps not lethal, circumstances. Liubóv Andréyevna Ranyévskaya, a self-indulgent member of the declining Russian landed medlock from The Cherry wood Orchard, is facing the auctioning away of her home. Santiago Nasar, a philandering member of the Columbian upper class via Chronicle of a Death Foretold, is charged of sleeping with Angela Vicario and is in danger of being murdered by her brothers. In trying to escape their circumstances, both characters retreat to their homes for security, but their homes end up being in which they face and give in to their problems. Chekhov and García Márquez’s utilization of their protagonists’ homes as the setting with their ruin calls into question whether or not the home is a safe home from specific strife.

Chekhov uses stage guidelines in Work III to spell out Liubóv’s residence as a lively and warm location after which a lonely, empty place to juxtapose her family’s losing of their estate due to their poor monetary state. At the outset of the action, Liubóv is hosting a dance to purchasing her estate back. The sitting area where Action III arises is referred to as being “separated from the ballroom in the back by a great archway. The chandeliers will be lit. Through the entrance hall comes the sound of the orchestra” (Chekhov 362). Chandeliers at the time could have been lit by wax lights, which would emanate a warm shine into the place so , by simply describing the chandeliers as lit, Chekhov creates a pleasing mood in the room for his audience. Chekhov writes within an orchestra playing so the viewers would listen to lively music, continuing the jubilant feeling. It would seem as if no damage could sink into this party and that Liubóv is safeguarded from her troubles.

However , right at the end of the act, Liubóv has become told that her real estate has been auctioned away. Chekhov describes the scene then with “The sitting room … clear except for Liubóv … The orchestra [playing] softly” (Chekhov 374). A few minutes earlier, the space was filled up with cheeriness because of the party that was developing. The room is actually empty, paralleling the anxiety overcoming Liubóv. Chekhov gets the orchestra shift to “soft” music to be able to reflect Liubóv’s depressed state due to dropping everything. Liubóv tried to make use of her home as a mental escape through the realization which the orchard will be sold yet failed, and her hardships came to her instead.

Similarly, García Márquez establishes the Nasar home since an unsafe location for Santiago to go to protect himself, despite the general opinion that a person’s home is definitely the safest place to be. García Márquez initially describes the Nasar home as “a former factory, with … walls of rough cedar planks, and a peaked container roof the place that the buzzards held watch over the rubbish on the docks” (Márquez 10). García Márquez’s use of diction with “rough planks” and “tin roof” creates the sensation of instability and low self-esteem in the home. Rather than using words that have a sturdy connotation, García Márquez effectively uses words that depict Santiago’s home as not being incredibly safe in the first place. In addition , the description of buzzards relaxing on the home gives the sense of them waiting around to watch his death. García Márquez procedes say that “The front door, except for festive occasions, remained shut down and barred” (Márquez 12). The words “closed” and “barred” create a impression of security that the rest of the home would not provide. García Márquez likewise does this to single out the doorway as a crucial structure because of its uniquely sound design regarding the rest of the residence.

The moment Santiago is trying to escape the murderous Vicario brothers, assuming that her son has already been inside the house, inches[Plácida Linero] happened to run to the door and slammed it closed. She was putting up the bar when she heard Santiago Nasar’s shouts, and … the terrified pounding for the door” (Márquez 117). García Márquez makes irony from this passage because the banned door, which has been supposed to guard Santiago, contributed to his loss of life as he could hardly enter his home. The thing that was meant to safeguard Santiago fantastic family, instead led to Santiago’s murder. The irony of the condition is prolonged to the fact that Santiago’s mother, Plácida Linero, is a one who locked the door. Usually, mothers are considered the most safety of their children and protect them at all costs. Plácida’s actions happen to be as much responsible for Santiago’s death because the Vicario twins. In his final moments of existence, “Santiago Nasar turned frontward again and leaned his back against his mother’s door” (Márquez 118). Possibly in Santiago’s death, his using the door for support represents his looking to his home for safety, despite the lack thereof. García Márquez ‘s decision to write that it can be Santiago’s “mother’s door” can be described as play on words to the fact the doorway is component to his mother’s house, yet that his mother shut the door and prevented him from going into safety. García Márquez by no means establishes Santiago’s home as a safe area to find refuge, and the occasions of Santiago’s murder reaffirm this thought.

The two Chekhov and García Márquez use their particular protagonist’s homes as the locations from the climaxes with their individual struggles. However , the size of the characters’ refuge within their homes differs. While Liubóv is in her home, planning to keep your problems in her life through celebrations and distractions, Santiago is definitely fighting to his home in order to save his life. Chekhov’s use of stage directions offers a clear way in how to level Liubóv’s heartbreak, but misses the tag in fully capturing the role of the home due to the setting’s stagnant character. Meanwhile, García Márquez creates a deeper meaning behind the faith in security people place in their particular homes, and portrays this kind of fault more harshly and intensely than Chekhov will in his operate. Both authors effectively work with setting inside their climaxes, nevertheless García Márquez uses establishing as a figure in the tale in a way that exceeds Chekhov’s use of setting in the back of the plan.