Love Despite Dominance in Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel and The House of Bernarda Alba by Federico Garcia Lorca :: Compare and Contrast

Literature often words complex phenomena, which differently possibly remain ignored. One example of such complex phenomena is the coexistence of deuce contradictory elements, dominance and cognise. Dominant personalities in the likes of Water for coffee berry and The Ho employ of Bernarda Alba, mom Elena and Bernarda Alba respectively, do not explicitly display love towards their daughters, just it is revealed by their behaviour and un pieceistic actions.Some elements of voiceization or narrative mode in both the works try to pose the readers perception of the dominant personalities to their still characteristics. In Like Water for Chocolate, we be told the story from a limited subjective tertiary person point of view. Titas grandniece is a limited narrator, who knows suddenly everything about a single character of Tita and every piece of companionship in that characters mind, but it is limited to that character that is, things unknown to the focal character (Tita) are not described. So, this point of view may be considered unreliable. The movement of Titas hatred towards florists chrysanthemum Elena almost throughout the book, and the portrayal of Mama Elena as a haunting character as a ghost, too contribute to limited perspective of the work. We are presented with only one static feature of Mama Elena. In The House of Bernarda Alba, even though the use of dialogue broadens the range the perspectives, Bernardas dialogue compared to that of others is limited. The fact that there is no soliloquy with Bernarda can imply a limitation to the perspectives open to the reader. We are shown only the dominant side of Bernardas character. The hatred of Poncia, who is one of the fewer characters shown from different perspectives, towards Bernarda can also be considered as a modification factor of the perspectives. Thus, the readers perception is narrowed down.While Mama Elena and Bernarda Alba are seen as tyrants from a rather narrow perspective, they ca n otherwise be seen as traditionalist mothers. From this fresh perspective, it could be argued that Mama Elena is postal code more than an orthodox mother who assorted to cruel methods including corporal penalty to mould her children in her own best way. From Mama Elenas perspective, she makes choices that are, as she thinks best for them (p. 167). This perspective is particularly relevant to the upbringing of Tita Magi never brought Tita what she asked for, but instead what Mama Elena thought best for her. (p. 167) Mama Elenas character as a traditionalist mother is further revealed from specific incidents providing Tita something wagerer than Three Kings Day Bread, forcing Tita to re-sew her stitches because she did not baste it (p.