This is even more meaningful when we take into account that the story takes place in the early 1900s, during Mexican Revolution. Both scenes represent liberation, both literal and symbolical. In Like Water for Chocolate, one of the sisters will ride off naked into the sunset with one of the revolutionaries. Speaking of rich imagery, in Bernarda Alba we have rumors of a woman riding naked in the olive grove. There’s also the motif of sisterly rivalry and the comfort found in the household’s maid. Similarly, Tita’s world ends at the kitchen door. During that time, they mustn’t leave the house. She imposes an eight-year mourning period on her daughters in accordance with family tradition. There we also have the figure of tyrannical matriarch in the form of Doña Bernarda. The House of Bernarda Alba is a play written by Federico García Lorca in 1936. This dichotomy between passion and oppression as well as the rich imagery inevitably reminds us of another classic of Hispanic Literature.
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