I will be focusing my research essay on “The Most Handsome Drowned Man in the World” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. This story explores the ways in which the arrival of the unknown drowned man invokes a sense of wonder among the people of the village and sparks their interest in the extraordinary. I have chosen literary articles as a secondary source of information to support my thesis. I have been searching mostly using the Gale Literary Sources database. I found this database to be very easy to utilize and my search returned many relevant articles. I have already read several interesting articles that provide helpful analysis of this short story and will contribute significantly to my essay. Some of the articles I found do not refer specifically to this title, but to other works by Garcia Marquez. I found these articles to be helpful as well as they show insight into this author’s writing style over time.
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Times have changed for the most part but back then it seemed a woman’s identity was defined by the state of their marriage. In the short story “The Marriage” The wife is robbed of her free will and decision making. Her image and character became publicly synonymous with her husbands which in turn forced her to follow her husbands every command. In “the story of an hour” the wife found herself dealing with the same problem of freedom and identity, except that instead of the story dwelling on her sad life, when she hears her husband had died, she becomes so happy and thrilled at the thought of having a space of time in which she’s her own woman that she ends up dying of a heart attack. Regardless, in both stories the world was robbed of these women.
In Oedipus the king I see many dramatic arch’s that take place today amongst family, for example holding secrets among some members of the family leading to tragedy is common. The incestuous relationship between mother and son (sadly) still goes onto these days. The escapist behavior people take on blindly to ignore what’s Infront of them.
