El Llano en llamas

The short story “My life with the wave” written by Octavio Paz is about a man, that is presented as the narrator in the story, that goes trough several events in the story, he first meets what is represented in the story as a “wave” and from there the story focuses on the relationship he develops with this wave, and how it affected his life from making him commit crimes to making him swing his mood with all the sudden mood changes the wave suffer due to all the external factor that could affect her

To what extent does Juan Rulfo criticise modern Catholicism in Pedro Paramo? Throughout the novel, Pedro Paramo, the author Juan Rulfo uses imagery, conflict, foreshadowing and juxtaposition to comment on the corruption of organized religion in the world, particularly the Catholic Church. The small village where the novel is set, has become a prison for the souls who remain and the local Priest abuses his position of authority to decide who will be blessed and be released. The author juxtaposes

Christianity has become, in over two millennia, the world's largest religion, spreading to almost every corner of the world. Based on this fact, it does not come as much of a surprise that Juan Rulfo's 1955 Mexican novel, Pedro Paramo, and Robertson Davies' 1970 Canadian one, Fifth Business, are both largely affected by this pervasive religion. What is interesting, however, is that despite the vast differences in culture and time, a comparison can be made of the authors' treatment of Christianity

The relationships between Dr. Andrey Yefimitch Ragin’s and Mihail Averyanotch, Pedro Paramo’s and Dolores Preciado, and Elesin’s and his new bride; all support Mill’s position that individuals may use impose their individual beliefs, such as their superiority, on others which might prevent people from forming their own individuality. In Ward No. 6 by Anton Chekhov, Dr. Ragin start out as being the controlling individual who imposes his beliefs on immortality and superiority on Mihail. However, it

Are we held back by our memories? In his novel Pedro Parámo, Juan Rulfo questions the voices that fill the town, the voices that represent old souls’ past memories. Rulfo’s conception of our past is that it haunts us, forcing the characters to revisit their own pasts in order to find meaning and forgiveness. Specifically, the story explores the nature of memory and the past by recounting the stories of all the inhabitants who have died in the town Comála. Everyone in the town is dead. The characters

How Magical Realism is Achieved and What it Portrays in Juan Rulfo’s Novel: Pedro Paramo The idea that most do not understand situations outside of linear time and space is readily apparent through Immanuel Kant’s idea that “space and time are the framework within which the mind is constrained to construct its experience of reality.” With this idea in mind, Juan Rulfo’s novel, Pedro Paramo, is purposely constructed in complete defiance of linear time and space. Rulfo aimed to create a sense of connectedness

In the novela Pedro Paramo, Juan Rulfo uses religion as a symbol that contradicts with the characters lack of morals and lack of faith. The town people of Comala are obsessed with the thought of afterlife, pray and attending church regularly, but these habits that have lost their true meaning. Rulfo uses these symbolic activities to make the characters nihilistic and initialism natures more apparent. Father Renteria plays the God like figure, being that he is the only priest in the novel allowing

In Juan Rulfo’s Pedro Páramo, various forms of oppressive behavior are manifested in the town of Comala – these range from the simple, readily apparent abuse of power to keep a population in line, as Pedro Páramo, having complete control over Comala, regularly does, to the very sinister use of religion as a means of reinforcing the patriarchal ideal held by contemporary Mexican society. In describing the oppression of society-at-large, Rulfo shows the sinister relationship that exists between power

Imagine walking into a deserted town, exhausted from the scorching rays of the sun. It becomes more and more difficult to muster up the last ounce of energy to take another step, and eventually you drop to the ground. In this example setting is enhanced in a way that a tone of hopelessness for the character is developed. First, the setting is developed in a manner that places a hardship on the character. Furthermore, the town is devoid of life ensuring that any help to the character is out of the

Throughout the novel, the theme of revenge, more specifically getting revenge on someone who is dead, can be seen. In the beginning of the story, there is a conversation between Juan and his mother, Dolores, where she says “‘make him pay, son, for all those years that he put us out of his mind’”(3) referring to his father, Pedro Paramo. Juan Rulfo is referencing the Cry of Dolores, where Father Miguel Hidalgo called the citizens of Dolores, Mexico to take up arms against the ruling Spanish upper