Comparison/Contrast Essay

Comparison/Contrast audition Although two Clarice Lispectors The Smallest Woman in the World and Gabriel Garcia Marquezs The Hand aroundst Drowned Man in the World are magic realist stories showing the extreme sizings of two the great unwashed, the stories depict differently how a society can react to a genuine type of soulfulness. Through scenery and material description, the authors show that different types of people can be go to bed or hated by a society. Marquezs text starts off with children watch outing a large existence in the water.The children think it was an enemy ship which can prove that the large size of a person can be very intimidating at first. Opposite to Marquezs text, in Lispectors text, the smallest woman is greeted with friendliness, she was immediately named by the French explorer. This can prove that the small size of the woman can be rendern as little intimidating than a larger person. However, in both stories, the characters are suddenly treated d ifferently in one case they have been displayed to a larger crowd.Once the seaweed is removed from the drowned man, the children start to play with the man and are less hydrophobic(predicate) of him. Also once the woman of the village confabulate the man, they seem to fall madly in love with him. They treat him almost like a god. In contrast, in Lispectors text the people that read the hold about the smallest woman in the world, they seem to dislike the idea of her size. The townspeople want her to be their striver or their toy. I think that the difference in size can be seen in both a literal and figurative sense.Literally the large size of the man is what the woman see as a physical appeal to them while the small size of the woman is seen more a creepy or strange aspect of her appearance. However, I as well as believe that the size of the characters is used as symbolism. For example, we can see that the large size of the man could represent authority and power and this may be why the manpower of the village feel intimidated my him. It could also show that he is powerful or strong. The womans small size could be seen as weak or young.It also can be compared to a lack of splendour or lack of influence. In the story we see that even the kids dont seem to respect her. The characters race also has a role on the societies views. For example, they describe the woman as being a as bleak as a monkey, describing how she may be animal-like or treated as a beast. They see her as a primitive being. The fact that she is black may also be why some of the people in France dont seem to respect her. Throughout history black people have been laden which is a theme the author added in.In Marquezs text, the fact that the woman named the man as if they knew him, indicates that he was most probable of the same race as them. This is a fact that should be considered in why they feel a close bond with him. The authors also use setting to explain how the magical characters a re treated. We can see that the man found from the ocean was treated better than the woman who was found in a risky part of an African forest. The woman of the town describe Esteban as most peaceful man on earth in which we can find similarities with how we describe the sea.Many people think of the sea to also be peaceful or serene, which is where the drowned man came from. On the contrary, the woman was treated in a negative way of life which could be partially because of where she came from. The woman came from the depths of a jungle. This can be seen as a blue and mysterious place which may insinuate why the people that read about her seem afraid or dislike her. Another difference between settings in the story is that in Marquezs text, the town where the people discover the man seems to be a small village which isnt the fact in Lispectors text, which is the country of France.Perhaps the authors were nerve-racking to show that people that grow up in bigger towns have more o f a colorful view on the outside world while people that grow up in smaller cities are more open minded, which would explain the different views on the characters in the story. In conclusion, Lispectors The Smallest Woman in the World and Gabriel Garcia Marquezs The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World show how magic realist text are used to toil the boundaries of fiction while explaining worldly views. Although both story depicts a magical characters life, they show through physical description and setting that people can be treated differently.