Dying for Love in Of Love and Other Demons by Gabriel Garcia Marquez E

dying(p) for Love in Of Love and Other Demons by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Based on part of the XVIII century, when the prevalent times of the Spanish Inquisition predominate the powers of the society and the people was ruled by an orthodox way of thinking, Gabriel Garcia Marquez gives save to Of Love and Other Demons. According to The American Heritage Dictionary, Inquisition was a former Roman Catholic tribunal established to suppress heresy. The endpoint Heresy origin onlyy meant a belief that one arrived at by oneself (Greek hairesis, choosing for oneself), and it is any religious doctrine opposed to the dogma of a particular(prenominal) church, especially a doctrine held by a person profession faith in the t separatelyings of that church. Surrounded by many cities, such as Lima, Portobelo and Veracruz, Of Love and Other Demons takes place in Cartagena-Colombia, a small urban center on an island formed by shallow extension of the harbor, and surrounded by a 12 meters (40 ft) thick wall. This city still is a pagan relic, which nowadays preserves some of the stone-built structures characteristic of the era. Of Love and Other Demons reflects how differences in cultures affect peoples thoughts as well as what effects it may baffle to the society when ruled by a major power. Garcia Marquez, winner of the Nobel of lit of 1982, has a certain kind of power over the readers. He involves them in a very visual and fantastic space, where the expressiveness and dominance of the language makes the reader stay on his or her way to the end of the story. In a place such as Cartegena, a typical South American town where the popular siesta, the hammock and the huerto of los naranjos, bring up the life of the born(p) environment the author relates the story ... ... personalities were shared, since in the time of inquisition, they were ruled by religious and Catholic thoughts that were nothing else that a mirror of non-free life that all citizen should follow. Both the Marquis and Bernarda die turning crazy on each corner of their lives, but the love that the Marquis tried to give at one time will remain alive although his daughter is not aware or so it. Sierva Maria was not possessed by the demons, since at the end of the novel, Garcia Marquez specifies that she dies of love, draw the grapes off not one by one but ii by two, hardly breathing in her longing to strip the bunch together of its last grape. Desperation is following her everywhere she goes within her mind, and love and demons cannot interest to each other, cultures can. Works CitedGarcia Marquez, Gabriel. Of Love and Other Demons. New York Penguin Books, 1995.