Letter to Ariel Dorfman - PDF
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Added on 2021-04-19
Letter to Ariel Dorfman - PDF
Added on 2021-04-19
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Running head: LETTER TO ARIEL DORFMANLetter to Ariel DorfmanName of the StudentName of the UniversityAuthor Note
1LETTER TO ARIEL DOEFMANRationale The written task is a written perspective of Paulina’s son based on the situations thatturned out to present themselves on one stormy night in the Play Death of a Maiden. this is agreat perspective to the story as the situations presented in the story is true beyond its contextand the people around the victim in such situations are more affected by the scenario. The wholeincident that affected Paulina is disturbing and moreover the government did not consider her avictim as she survived the ordeal.As the son of such a woman I, as her son write a letter to the author to show how otheraspects behind the situation she faced and how that turned her so vicious. This was also due tothe situation she faced in the justification of her actions to husband and the society. in this letter Itry to explain to the author how that one incident turned her life around and how vague is theidea of irreparable damage in the society. I saw her breaking down within herself a number oftimes, while maintaining a façade of a happy content woman but this never left her life. Theincident has scarred her in more ways than one and while the incident should be the oneforgotten but the psychological aspect of the treatment she received. Chile was a hard place tolive before being democratized and Paulina, my mother survives as an example to it.
2LETTER TO ARIEL DOEFMANThe incomplete wholeIn this letter, I choose to write why my mother Paulina could never be complete and thatwas the reason in the she completely flipped when she faced the man, I am not talking aboutjustice, I talk about lost hopes and homes that have been damaged beyond repair thanks to thewar. My mother did nit just loose herself, she lost her husband, her belief on society, the death ofthe maiden and her mental peace. Still, since she was alive society takes the liberty of decidingthat since she was alive she would become okay. The physical wounds healed like they alwaysdo but she had lost herself in the long run. The society thinks about maintaining the pretense ofcivility rather than helping the trampled souls.My father had a very strong role to play in reinforcing the notion in her mind. She weptcried and she fought her way through the two-month long ordeal only to find a cheating husband.The situation was worse when he could not take the side of my mother as her loss according tohim was not irreparable since she had learnt to live in the pretense of happiness. She on the otherhand had suffered an irreparable damage which was accentuated by her husband’s selfishnessand the lack of empathy towards her. I on the other hand saw a woman always eager to do herjob and complete it but nothing more. She had become an automaton living in a pretentioushappiness.Paulina has used the irreparable expression three times. The first run through, Paulinaridicules Gerardo's impractical reasoning that lone murder is unsalvageable. The second time,she derides his loathsomeness at seeing the detained Dr. Miranda, Gerardo's first up close andpersonal experience of viciousness with irreversible results. At long last, she heaves in his face
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