Separation Ignites Intimacy
Separation Ignites Intimacy - This study will explore the seemingly paradoxical romantic situation that physical separation can actually lead to a closer, more intimate relationship between the characters Tita and Pedro in Like Water for Chocolate and Angela and Bayardo in Chronicle of a Death Foretold.
In literature, many authors have developed the theme of lovers and, ultimately, their separation. However, this motif may be taken even further when lovers' separations result in a closer, more intimate relationship. In Laura Esquivel's Like Water for Chocolate and Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Chronicle of a Death Foretold this concept holds true. Both writers develop characters with similar stories. Tita and Pedro's and Angela and Bayardo's relationships last despite tradition and culture. Both sets of lovers are separated for many years, and reunited only to find they have a stronger bond than they could have had without the separation. Additionally, both writers use magical-realism......
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