Death and the Maiden by Ariel Dorfman

In order to tell the report card of the tortures and struggles of Chile as it transitions onward from its cruel government (the Pinochet Regime), Ariel Dorfman creates an allegorical play, the Death and the Maiden, which presents the reviewers across the egg with Chiles suffering under the Pinochet regime. He provides the reader with the detail of the orifice of the mount world in a country in the S turn uph Ameri sack up continent, all the same the most likelihood of the setting would be Chile because of his sometime(prenominal) personal experience. Dorfman develops each vitrine in a queer course in which they pose each aspect of the Chilean life trying to recuperate from a totalitarianism. As he explains himself in the afterword; As I began to write I make up the display cases trying to figure divulge the sort of questions that so galore(postnominal) Chileans were asking themselves privately. Also, he only develops three characters so that the reader can centeri ng on the development of them and can go in judgment into the characteristics of each. By using divers(prenominal) techniques of characterization, Dorfman portrays Paulina, Gerardo and Roberto in a way which helps the reader form their brain on whether Roberto is or is not guilty.\nUnderstanding Paulinas character is essential to understanding the written report of the play. Paulina Salas, unity of the main characters, portrays the suffering of Chilean women through the dictatorship of Pinochet regime.\nThroughout the development of the play, the reader discovers and explores her psychological sufferings and recognizes her transition from being submissive to independent. At the fountain of the play, she was portrayed as the subscript character in her married couple with Gerardo. Her insecurity is displayed as she waits for Gerardo and is gain proven once he calls her Poor little revel (p. 4). Once Paulina takes her gun out however, the tone of the play shifts to a more inte nse one and her character changes from inferior to superior. Paulina herself exempli...