Like Water For Chocolate
Romeo and Juliet and The West Side Story , both romantic sagas that unfold into
a struggle between love and family tradition and ways. In the two stories a young girl
and a young man from different paths find each other and fall in love, and in both, they
are forbidden by either family to be together. In the agony of being forced to live apart
the lovers eventually come to a point where they can no longer be without one another.
Their love is so strong that regardless if they defy their families’ wish, they will do
anything to be together, even if this includes death. These European and American
stories of the tragic effect of a love so strong that it can kill sets the table for the
Mexican film Like Water For Chocolate. This movie tells about desire, love, and
rebellion, and is centered around the love of Tita and Pedro, and the struggle of Tita’s
family tradition that does all it can to keep them apart. In this movie we are given an
opportunity to see how the attitudes of the characters change over time and how true
love, once revealed, can never be held.
In the early years of the twentieth century, on a small ranch in Mexico, the story
of three sisters and their repressive mother unfolds, and Like Water For Chocolate
begins. Tita is the youngest daughter of Mama Elena, and, as such, because of a family
tradition, she is forbidden to marry or have children until after her mother's death. Tita
is agreeable to this situation until she falls in love with the dashing young Pedro. Tita
goes to her mother to tell her of Pedro’s intention to meet with her and ask for her
daughter’s and his love’s hand in marriage. Mama Elena is angered by this
announcement and upon meeting ...
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...ura marries. Unfortunately, during their love making, Pedro dies and in the spirit of
Romeo and Juliet and The West Side Story, Tita kills herself.
An admittedly unusual title for a film, Like Water for Chocolate fits the mood --
odd, playful, and sweet. It equates the boiling point of water for hot chocolate with the
height of passion. Told by Tita’s great grandniece this is a story with occasional
surrealistic fantasy sequences interspersed between the commonplace goings-on of
regular lives, and the film weaves a subtle spell of enchantment until a disappointing
conclusion. I believe that this was one of the most beautiful stories of love and its
power that has every been told. Even though this is a foreign movie with sub-titles, it is
such a strong story that you easily forget that it is in Spanish. This is truly a Romantic
classic of all times.
The story begins with Titas birth prematurely when Mama Elena was chopping onions. Tita grows up with Nacha the most dominant figure in her life, and follows Mama Elenas routine of cooking, cleaning and sewing. At every incident she can, Mama Elena criticizes Tita and even beats her if she tries to speak up. One day Tita tells her mother that Pedro wants to come and ask for her hand, but according to the family tradition she cannot marry because she is the youngest daughter. Mama Elena tells Pedro he can marry Rosaura- one of her older daughters, and Pedro agrees to the arrangement just to be closer to his true love- Tita.
"Romeo and Juliet". The play is not a simple love story; it is as much
Mama Elena attributes to the acting of men, she acts like she is overprotective over her daughters which gives her the right for her daughters to demand respect and follow her rules. When Rosaura and Mama Elena died, Tita was strong enough to leave everything in the past, including Pedro, and started a new relationship with John.
... other," and "[make] mad passionate love wherever they happened to end up" (242). Unlike the first wedding, Tita too is infected with the powerful enchantment of the food. "For the first time in their lives, Tita and Pedro made love freely" (243). The novel ends with both Pedro and Tita, overcome with pleasure and emotion, dying in each other arms.
One of the primal themes that Shakespeare displays coercible throughout the play is love. In Romeo and Juliet, their love is initially the prelude to a lot of complexities as their families dissension divides them. Shakespeare’s poetic narration’s illustrates a compelling love story that contrives the importance of its true meaning, and has since influenced many other authors that have adapted the same idea into more modern contexts. For example,
The title Like Water for Chocolate is significant because it symbolizes Tita’s emotions. When Tita was describing how to make hot chocolate, she said, “when the water comes to a boil for the first time, remove it from the heat. When it comes to a boil again and starts to boil over, remove it from the heat.” The high temperature of the water is crucial to the melting of the chocolate, so when Tita describes her emotions as “like water for chocolate” she is describing the intensity of her emotion (passion and anger).
To conclude, in both pieces their displays to different ways a child could love their father. It necessarily doesn’t mean it right. But regardless of how the children feel about their fathers, the father love for his child is pure and unconditional. There is nothing that can get in the way of that, not even the mother of the child.
This book talks about how a young women named Tita who rebels against her mother, Mama Elena , for the better. She was the only person who was able to stand up to her. No one had the guts to tell her that she was wrong, but Tita was brave enough to tell her that she wanted to marry the love of her life,Pedro. But Mama Elena arranged for Pedro to marry Rosaura, Titas older sister. After the wedding, even though Pedro married Rosaura he would always try to sneak around with Tita, just to be alone with her. Tita showed her love to Pedro by cooking Quail in Rose Petal Sauce. She used the flowers that her gave her. During dinner Pedro could feel Titas love for him , just by eating the food that she had prepared.
My opinion on why this love story is so popular is probably because all of its elements
Nonetheless, this really is a tale of compelling love between the boy and his father. The actions of the boy throughout the story indicate that he really does love his father and seems very torn between his mother expectations and his father’s light heartedness. Many adults and children know this family circumstance so well that one can easily see the characters’ identities without the author even giving the boy and his father a name. Even without other surrounding verification of their lives, the plot, characters, and narrative have meshed together quite well.
On the surface the story tells the tale of two lovers struggling to be with each other, but cannot because they are not married. The two became involved in premarital sex, erotic love, and had
Pedro, and the effects which her tears had on the guests to develop the plot to give a more
One woman gained love from her husband’s death, and the other woman devoted herself to wait for her love. In “The Story of an Hour,” Louise Mallard grieved deeply for her husband’s death by a train accident, but immediately she recognized that she gained her love which was freedom from her husband. May Bartram, the main character in “The Beast in the Jungle,” gave her whole life to wait for John Marcher whom she loved. Comparing these two women, Louise had a husband and loved each other, but she did not enjoy the love until he died. She more loved freedom than him, but if he did not died, she would continuously sacrifice her freedom to maintain their marriage. May loved John until her death, but she never received the love from him. She gave her golden time to a man, and she might know that he would never love her. However, she never regretted wasting her life to wait for and watc...
an idea how the two lovers can be reacquainted with each other. He reveals his
even though both novels do not end the same end the same, both Sam and Tita get