Death Foretold Ethics
A longtime senior executive for The Walt Disney Company, Roy E. Disney once said “It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are." Roy E. Disney explains that making decisions are easy if one has and follows principles or cultural codes. The answer to a decision reflects on the ethics one pursues. No matter if the decision is right or wrong to someone else, in one's eyes it is based one's values and that is why that decision has been made. In regards to Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Chronicle of a Death Foretold, the two Vicario brothers Pablo and Pedro, the murderers of Santiago Nasar’s, killed him because their cultural codes advocated them to uphold their family's honor after they find out from their sister Angela Vicario
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The main reason that Pedro and Pablo Vicario killed Santiago Nasar was because they wanted the wrong that Nasar did to their sister to be righted; revenge is what they wanted in order to clear her name. Gabriel Garcia Marquez states on page 49 ““We killed him openly,” Pedro Vicario said, “but we’re innocent.” “Perhaps before God,” said Father Amador. “Before God and before men,” Pablo Vicario said. “It was a matter of honour”” Pablo Vicario is telling Father Amador about why he and Pedro killed Nasar because they were brought up with the honor code and that the code was the most important traits in their society to have. Not one person in the Colombian town questioned the action the brother were going to take because honor was an important fundamental moral trait that many were brought up with signifying that any brother would get revenge for her sister loss of virginity. However, people like Clothilde Armenta, who was more religious in the town thought their action was inhumane and tried to prevent the death of Nasar from happening. The honor principle was so big that a person that didn’t follow it would be unwanted in the town. The darkness of this ideology led to the death Santiago because this ideal was so momentous and most people in the town didn’t care of what the Vicario brothers were going to do. It was a common a thing to fight for
The main reason that Pedro and Pablo Vicario killed Santiago Nasar was because they wanted the wrong that Nasar did to their sister to be righted; revenge is what they wanted in order to clear her name. Gabriel Garcia Marquez states on page 49 ““We killed him openly,” Pedro Vicario said, “but we’re innocent.” “Perhaps before God,” said Father Amador. “Before God and before men,” Pablo Vicario said. “It was a matter of honour”” Pablo Vicario is telling Father Amador about why he and Pedro killed Nasar because they were brought up with the honor code and that the code was the most important traits in their society to have. Not one person in the Colombian town questioned the action the brother were going to take because honor was an important fundamental moral trait that many were brought up with signifying that any brother would get revenge for her sister loss of virginity. However, people like Clothilde Armenta, who was more religious in the town thought their action was inhumane and tried to prevent the death of Nasar from happening. The honor principle was so big that a person that didn’t follow it would be unwanted in the town. The darkness of this ideology led to the death Santiago because this ideal was so momentous and most people in the town didn’t care of what the Vicario brothers were going to do. It was a common a thing to fight for