Death and the Maiden by Ariel Dorfman

In order to tell the account statement of the tortures and struggles of Chile as it transitions absent from its cruel government (the Pinochet Regime), Ariel Dorfman creates an allegorical play, the Death and the Maiden, which presents the indorsers across the land with Chiles piteous under the Pinochet regime. He provides the reader with the detail of the gap of the ground creation in a country in the S step uph Ameri rear end continent, however the most likelihood of the setting would be Chile because of his g matchless personal experience. Dorfman develops each vitrine in a remarkable demeanor in which they lay come in each aspect of the Chilean life trying to recoup from a tyranny. As he explains himself in the afterword; As I began to write I set up the acknowledgments trying to figure out the sort of questions that so legion(predicate) Chileans were asking themselves privately. Also, he only develops three characters so that the reader can focusing on the d evelopment of them and can go in profoundness into the characteristics of each. By using contrastive 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 non guilty.\nUnderstanding Paulinas character is essential to understanding the foundation of the play. Paulina Salas, one 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 ancestor of the play, she was portrayed as the small character in her uniting with Gerardo. Her insecurity is displayed as she waits for Gerardo and is but proven once he calls her Poor little sleep with (p. 4). Once Paulina takes her gun out however, the tone of the play shifts to a more intense one and her character changes from inferior to superior. Paulina herself exempli...