Analysis of Deceptive Marriage
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ScribdTranslationsBIOGRAPHY ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra was a Spanish soldier, novelist, poet, and playwright.
He is considered the greatest figure of Spanish literature and is universally known.
for having written The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha (commonly known
like the Quijote), which many critics have described as the first modern novel and a
of the best works of universal literature, in addition to being the most published book and
translated from the story, only surpassed by the Bible. It has been nicknamed
Prince of Wits.
TIME
The novel is inspired by the era of the golden centuries (15th/16th). Spain was under the
mandate of Alfonso VI. Marriage during this time was very arranged.
ARGUMENT
In the deceitful marriage, Lieutenant Campuzano tells his friend Licenciado.
Tell the story of your marriage to Estefanía de Caicedo: Campuzano
he proposed to seduce Estefanía, and, attracted by the dowry she would bring to the marriage,
he married her thinking he could deceive her. But when Alférez was already changing to
"Good the bad intention" of his plan discovers that he is deceived; Estefanía who does not
she was the owner of the house that she claimed was hers, fleeing with her lover taking with her the
fake jewels of Campuzano, and he became infected with syphilis, which has just ended
to heal in the hospital.
Peralta was amazed, and Campuzano prepared to astonish him even more.
making known The dialogue of the dogs, which one night he was able to hear in the hospital.
While Alférez rests, Peralta reads the colloquy in which Berganza tells her
life to his companion Cipión, who is commenting on the narration, in its content and
in its form.
Creed Berganza was born in Seville, perhaps in the slaughterhouse, where he had his first
I love the butcher Nicolás el Romo. He escaped the cruelty of the jifero and lived afterwards.
with some shepherds in the field, as the guardian of the flock. Unable to discover the
I love the mischiefs of the wolfish shepherds, return to Seville and serve a rich merchant.
Out of loyalty to his master, he rejects the bribes from the maid and, in the face of certain revenge
from the black woman, leaves and finds the sheriff, a friend of Nicolás, as the new master
Romo, his first master. He leaves that world of bailiffs, scribes, prostitutes.
and ruffians associated with the robbery, and he joins a company of soldiers, in Mairena
from Alcor. Poorly nourished among those of that race, he comforts his stomach with the
snippets from a poet, and moves forward as "between a myth and a farce of figures"
"mutes", until, injured during the performance of a short play in Valladolid,
tired of everything, Berganza enters the service of Mahudes, in the Hospital of the
Resurrection.
Characters
Lieutenant Campuzano: he is the narrator of The Marriage and the author of The Colloquy.
He is a soldier and has just cured the syphilis he had. He tries to deceive, but at
he is finally deceived. He has a lot of imagination or strange things happen to him.
rare.
Licenciado Peralta: he is a friend of Campuzano. He is the receiver of the
conversation of The Wedding and the reader of The Colloquy. Ends up not believing
neither the wedding nor the colloquy, which makes me believe that everything is fiction.
Estefanía de Caicedo: she is the woman Campuzano marries and the one who
he deceives her.
Doña Clementa: Mrs. Estefanía, the true owner of the house.
Don Lope: husband of Doña Clementa.
Berganza: narrator of the story written by Campuzano.
Cipión: friend of Berganza, is the one who listened to the story.
MOST RELEVANT SCENE
For me, the most relevant scene is when Estefanía tells the truth to the gentleman.
Lieutenant. She says to him, -I don't know if I'm going against my conscience in revealing to you what has been troubling me.
It seems that it would also load it if I silenced it, but to God and Aventura I know what
Long live the truth and death to the lie!
Values
Solidarity
Antivalues
Deception
