Of_Love_And_Other_Demons

Of Love And Other Demons Since Sierva Maria was conceived she was tagged with the phrase of an outcast. Her mother Bernada, an Indian commoner was married to the Marquis, an aristocrat and both of them shunned her out of their lives; even stating “she will be a whore.”(P.42) The demons that Gabriel Garcia Marquez is trying to point out is the lack of love and duality. These two demons bring the novel to a grim ending but through it all you see that true love did try to conquer some of the demons. Bernada and the Marquis had a bitter cold marriage and it was the hateful feeling that they had for each other that passed on to their daughter. When Bernada nursed her daughter for the first time she feared that the child would “kill her.” After that Sierva’s parents took no responsibility for the child and left her to the hands of Dominga De Adviento who nursed, baptized and taught Sierva three African languages along with the African culture. It was here that Sierva felt loved. On her twelfth birthday Sierva and Dominga were at the market and a rabid dog bit Sierva, no one except for the slaves sierva, love, marquis, bishop, two, time, one, daughter, because, way, sierva’s, girl, didn’t, took, slaves, out, never, loved, delaura, child, african, trying, through, started, showed, sent, saw, realized, possessed, neglected, met, make, knew, exorcism, duality