Religion in Chronicle of a Death Foretold, evidence and examples on how the people of the community are hypocrites in their religion.
Title: Religion in Chronicle of a Death Foretold, evidence and examples on how the people of the community are hypocrites in their religion. Category:Literature Details: Words: 757 | Pages: 3.2 (approximately 235 words/page)
Religion in Chronicle of a Death Foretold, evidence and examples on how the people of the community are hypocrites in their religion.
Religion
Marquez thinks that the people of the community are hypocrites in religion because of the strong adherence in some areas and great leniency in others. The reader can tell this by the actions of the townspeople and clergy.
Evidence: "It was a fleeting illusion: the bishop began to make the sign of the cross in the air opposite the crowd on the pier, and he kept on doing it mechanically afterwards, without malice or inspiration, until the boat was lost from view and all …showed first 85 words of 757 total…
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…showed last 85 words of 757 total…church and clergy were not willing to go out of their way to prevent this murder from occurring. Father Amador could have easily talked to the Vicario brothers and changed their minds, but instead he chose not to accept that the murder would actually take place. It also shows that the Father was taking the vestments to the church only to make the mass happy. It somewhat shows how the church was there to make the people happy, more of content than of spiritually sound.
