Death and the Maiden by Ariel Dorfman

In order to secure the story of the tortures and struggles of chile as it modulations away from its cruel governance (the Pinochet Regime), Ariel Dorfman creates an allegorical bump, the Death and the Maiden, which presents the readers crossways the globe with Chiles suffering beneath the Pinochet regime. He provides the reader with the compass point of the possibility of the setting beingness in a agricultural in the South Ameri understructure continent, however the most likelihood of the setting would be Chile because of his past personal experience. Dorfman develops to each one character in a unique way in which they portray each scene of the Chilean life try to recover from a dictatorship. As he explains himself in the afterword; As I began to write I found the characters trying to puzzle out out the sort of questions that so many Chileans were asking themselves in private. Also, he only develops terzetto characters so that the reader can focus on the suppuration of them and can go in depth into the characteristics of each. By exploitation different techniques of characterization, Dorfman portrays Paulina, Gerardo and Roberto in a way which helps the reader family their mindset on whether Roberto is or is not guilty.\nUnderstanding Paulinas character is essential to sense the theme of the play. Paulina Salas, one of the primary(prenominal) characters, portrays the suffering of Chilean women by the dictatorship of Pinochet regime.\nThroughout the ontogeny of the play, the reader discovers and explores her psychological sufferings and recognizes her transition from being submissive to independent. At the beginning of the play, she was portrayed as the lacking(p) character in her marriage with Gerardo. Her insecurity is displayed as she waits for Gerardo and is further proven at one time he calls her Poor dinky love (p. 4). Once Paulina takes her wedge out however, the tone of the play shifts to a more immoderate one and her characte r changes from inferior to superior. Paulina herself exempli...