Wednesday, July 28, 2010

What archetypes can be found in "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings"? Jorge Garcia Marquez's "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings"

With
meaning the original pattern or model after which a thing is made, the
story itself is an archetype of a fairy tale with the role of the supernatural mixing with the
mundane.  However, while Marquez's "" is in the style of a folk or fairy tale, it does
not provide a moral lesson.  Instead, it blurs the line between the significant and the trivial
as the townspeople misinterpret and then become weary of the old man with wings.


There is also a blurring of the role of the old man with enormous wings, whose
appearance hardly affects Pelayo who perceives little difference between the "angel"
and the crabs in his...

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