Monday, November 9, 2015

Aunt Maria

Aunt Maria, in essence, is a tale about a mean relative that pretends to be far nice than she actually is. Oh, and there's a bit of magic and the paranormal to stir things up.
Aunt is the matriarch of her town and she runs it not with an iron fist, but with a doily covered palm and lots of magic to manipulate the men and children around her. She frees herself from their code of conduct by behaving in this way but she also imprisons herself within her own rules (Girls cant wear pants, no fish and chips for dinner, etc.) and so the book is about "Who's really the captive".
Essentially Aunt Maria is a character study and the book examines the family unit but mostly the book examines women in society and their roles in society. Aunt Maria seems to be all powerful in the novel, but the real problem with Maria is that she is being held back by a code of ethics that is outdated and she oppresses herself with them without even realizing it.
The whole point of the story is to examine women's roles in society and to examine what exactly is oppression. What does it mean to be oppressed by society? It makes an individual wonder, that's for sure.

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