Essays on Como

Published in 1889, Laura Esquivel’s Like Water for Chocolate is set in revolutionary Mexico of the early twentieth century. At that time, society and the family institution exercised an authoritative and oppressive control on women’s activities and expression; in fact, such control had existed since colonial times, Up until recent times, women had been playing a subservient role from which even in the twenty-first century they are still struggling to break themselves free. Not only were women denied participation in society and politics as individuals with their own voice and identity, but they were mostly confined to ...

Me gustaría comparar dos obras clásicas, el uno de cine, y el otro de la literatura. Para la comparación, he elegido el libro “Don Quijote” de Cervantes y la película de Jeunet “Amélie” ("Amélie (2001)"). En mi opinión, estas dos obras hablan de los mismo valores, y sus temas están estrechamente relacionados. Los temas que se plantean por el autor y el director no tienen una fecha de caducidad, son importantes en todo momento. Me puse un fin de hacer claramente los fundamentos de las obras algunos de los detalles y ...

“One Hundred Years of Solitude” (Cien Añosde Soledad) is a magical realist novel created by Gabriel García Márquez in 1967. This novel is referred to as the Don Quixote of Latin America because of its overwhelming popularity (Jay Corwin, 4). The novel does not have any clear and obvious philosophy that is why the perception of this novel is very individualistic. The tragic and mystique ending pushes to the idea that multiple aspects of life that are described in the novel are heavily criticized by García Márquez (Jay Corwin, 4). And one of these ...