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the labyrinth of solitude

By Octavio Paz

 

 

 

 

     THE PACHUCO AND THE OTHER EXTREME: Posing on our identity as children, described from birth, sometimes we can feel alone; but we forget our loneliness through play or work. A reflection of adolescence ago and describes when young people are concerned about finding our identity, the teenager is amazed by the wealth in its environment, and asks if he truly is. A reflection of how the people feel the same is done and often the answers are changed by history and the national character. People are distinguished by their creations and some people from the same village with different historical stages, also gives an example that everyone feels but Mexicans crossing the border cease to be. The Pachuco is said not to belong to a race, but in reality is proud of his company and be able to enter American society and hides himself.

 

MEXICAN MASKS: Refers to the saying: "the good listener few words" and as Mexico is enclosed in itself because it is part of his honesty and openness to others is a symbol of betrayal. The revolution paved the way for modern art and poetry also create closed worlds; because they must defend your privacy and are more women who must defend their modesty. The Mexican who gives stability in a partner who will provide the sweetness and race track. It is treated with respect by all and is also "cracked", exposed to all the dangers to which he can not save the man is the woman suffering, suffering that becomes invulnerable like the man is hiding his being and shame on women, the blame because its attributes let it be open. Another important part is that it tolerates homosexuality but not to heterosexism. Don none are very powerful in our lives and although nobody seems to be, is the largest mask we have.

 

ALL SAINTS DAY OF THE DEAD: For the Mexican anything is cause for celebration, all your calendar is full of these. The Mexican does not suffice their festivals; Too many festivals that take place in the Republic, is the only luxury we have, this is where the Mexican tends to open and vent, can kill by releasing their feelings. The festival is not only a waste of excess and assets accumulated during the year; It is also a revolt; society mocks their gods, principles and laws: it denies itself. The sacrifices entailed no salvation, the cosmic offered health since the world was through the blood of sacrifices. Today death does not hold any transcendent meaning.

 

CHILDREN OF THE Malinche: The Mexican only dares to be alone in his solitude, so the character of the Mexican is a product of their social circumstances that link to historical facts that are part of his humanity, the Mexican also fighting ghosts that was created, as part of his past. The Mexican tries to find its origin and return to this, resume if filiation and break their solitude. For this reason the Mexican worships the Virgin reflects his spiritual-material situation. When Cortés Malinche is delivered, is said to forget it when you stop serving. Mexico does not forgive his betrayal. The malinchistas are in favor of Mexico are open to the outside.

 

CONQUEST AND COLONY: Catholicism is considered as the center of colonial society because in reality it is the source of life that nourishes their activities. In these times arises Sor Juana, where the best people show their vitality and intellectual curiosity aroused in stark contrast. Sor Juana, which in those days was what women wanted to be, since society repressed over a woman. The revolution of lights, which consisted of a seemingly passive motion by letters ranging from poems, paintings, literary works to collection of historical facts and conspiracies against those governments.

 

INDEPENDENCE OF THE REVOLUTION: The struggle for independence tended to free the criollos of bureaucracy but not intended to change the colonial society. It is said that reform is inspired by a universal philosophy, like Catholicism movement, but the differences between them are that Catholicism was imposed by a foreign minority after military conquest, and liberalism was intellectual strain through civil war and was also a minority. The revolution was given by the absence of ideological precursors and ideological ties, which brought a series of conflicts and misunderstandings later: Peasants and Workers living homeless compared to large powerful, but farmers had a long history of inherited struggles of prehistoric peoples, while workers had no rights and expertise to help them support their claims and justify their struggle against the powerful. The inability of the Mexican intelligence to formulate a coherent system of popular aspirations became clear I leave just be an instinctive revolution and becomes fact regime. The adoption of the liberal system was not due to a lack of ideas of revolutionaries. Like the parties, the revolution is overkill and a waste, is going to the extremes, the awakening of emotions: joy and helplessness. It's a party in the Mexican, drunk himself, knows the other Mexican.

 

MEXICAN INTELLIGENCE: This chapter aims to describe the Mexican intelligence of our ancestors, who have filled us with knowledge, culture and traditions. One is Vasconcelos, who saw education as a participation in the life of Mexico. Some of this literature dates back to the colony, another indigenismo and others live in the present and create the novel of the revolution. Thus, the intellectual became the director general of those illiterate, peasant and union leader, the leader in power and those who were illiterate. It is said that the Mexican Revolution brought us out of ourselves and put us against history, by posing the need to invent what would our future.

 

OUR DAYS: Currently discuss whether the social and economic policy has been successful, this is something that goes beyond the technicality and past mistakes. The working class begin to make their popular alliances, one of the alliances made with Carranza was in exchange for an advanced social policy and for this reason allied with Obregón. It was said that communist countries were a minority that was closed and had powerful as bases to the administration, the army and the Holy Inquisition. The Mexicans we need a new way of seeing sensitivity to Latin America and the rest of the world, as the struggles of the Middle East are linked to ours. The Mexican is hidden under masks, which is then converted into days of mourning or celebration; but even then we found what we reconcile us with the order and our freedom. After this general collapse of reason and faith; which is God, do not rise much less old and new intellectual systems that are able to understand our great distress, for we feel that there is nothing and we are alone.

 

APPENDIX: THE SOLITUDE OF OUR Dialectic: The woman is a precious object or harmful, but different. In order to transform man makes his instrument since she never sit or conceived only as an object, as it is never in control of herself. Women live prey that society imposes male and one can choose breaking with herself. Prostitution is a sacred being for certain people, for the Mexican is a despicable but both desirable, is a victim of love and power that humiliates the world. Eroticism is already different from a Sade, who was a tragic temperament possessed of all, an explosive revelation of the human revelation today eroticism is a rhetorical and literary army, has become a document masque stimulates crime and sentencing love. We have been banished from the center of the world. Modern man has streamlined its myths but could not destroy them, has the characteristic of thinking awake, but still lead him down the wrong path.

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