Juan Preciado's enigmatic encounter with the sibling couple in Pedro Páramo
Keywords:
Death, Agony, Mud, Sin, Vital ForcesAbstract
This paper proposes an interpretation on one of the most enigmatic events in Pedro Páramo: the meeting of Juan Preciado with Donis and his sister. Preciado meets the couple right after the awakening of Comala's specters. Rulfo says that the couple’s story is nothing but a terrible hallucination that the young man suffers during his agony. This would explain the couple’s particular state of loneliness and nudity, as well as that mysterious event in which the sister’s body melts into mud. George Ronald Freeman relates the couple state with that of the Adam and Eve after being casted out of paradise: loneliness, abandonment, nudity and guilt. This text takes into account the symbolic relation between mud and guilt. It suggests that mud in this story not only represents sin, but it also refers to positive aspects of vital forces. In other words, mud symbolizes guilt as well as Mother earth’s creative and destructive attributes.
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