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to be or not to be

Where justice is refused, where blindness prevails, and where any class is made to feel that society they belong to is a conspiracy organized to oppress and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe. In the novel, Like Water for Chocolate, by Laura Esquivel, the main character, Tita De La Garza, is dominated and treated as a slave within her own family. Like Water For Chocolate tells the story of Tita De La Garza, the youngest daughter in a family living in Mexico at the turn of the twentieth century. Tita, being the youngest daughter, is forbidden by her tyrannical mother, Mama Elena, to marry. She is denied marriage and reduced to a servile role because of an age old tradition dictates that the youngest daughter must care for her mother until death. Indeed this many not seem out of place for such a time period, however, this treatment of woman can be contrasted against even today’s most modern cultures. Oppression leads individuals to behave as enslaved persons. This...

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