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Separation Ignites Intimacy Separation Ignites Intimacy - This study will explore the seemingly paradoxical romantic situation that physical separation can actually
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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 and absurdity in order to emphasize and intensify the relationships, the separations, and the bond which is created between the two lovers after they reunite.
Both Like Water for Chocolate and Chronicle of a Death Foretold are set in very traditional Latin America. In Like Water for Chocolate, Mama Elena, Tita's mother, separates Pedro and Tita because of the tradition that the youngest daughter must take care of her mother until her death. "If he intends to ask for your hand, tell him not to botherÂ…You know perfectly well that being the youngest daughter means you have to take care of me until the day I die" (10). In Chronicle of a Death Foretold the tradition of maintaining a man's honor requires that Bayardo leave his bride because she is not a virgin. "Defense of honor" (48). "Honor is love" (97).
Both authors use traditional roles of women to express the passionate love that goes against tradition. In Like Water for Chocolate, Chapter 3, "Quail in Rose Petal...
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