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Machisma And Machismo In The Plays of Lorca and Marquez

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for safety and security and as a means to fulfill a natural need for socialization. Sometimes it seems that men and women are in the same species but talk  a different language. The House of Bernarda Alba by Federico Garcia Lorca is a play that is focused on the social role of women as it applies to family  honor. Chronicle of A Death Foretold is a novella by Gabriel Garcia Marquez that focuses on the social role of men as it applies to family honor.  The two stories similar social settings: the Hispanic small town and, consequently, are defined within a similar set of norms and mores. In both, the theme of family honor  overrides all other considerations. The way honor is defined and carried out, however, is socially derived. The primary difference between these two works is the view - one  is from a female point of view while the other takes a male perspective. Gender and sexuality play an enormous role in the social construct of cultural norms.  The norms of the culture are established early as being based on a system of patriarchy. In The House Of Bernarda Alba, the women are set against each  other because they are in competition for available males. They are devious toward each other as well as toward their mother because of this. The mother, on the  other hand, portrays the authority of the social norms - the female equivalent of machismo. She takes on the role of the patriarchal society in the submission of her  daughters to unreasonable demands. In Marquezs Chronicle Of A Death Foretold, the social norm of machismo defines every relationship, including the response of the brothers. The brothers