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Bless Me Ultima Essay Research Paper Talfud

Bless Me Ultima Essay, Research Paper


Talfud once said that, Men see in their dreams only that what is suggested by their own thought. In Bless Me Ultima, the passage after Narciso s death is crucial in understanding that Antonio processes his conflicts in his dreams. This passage is key for the understanding that Antonio s dreams are his way of processing his conflict between the Catholic God and the Golden Carp. With the processing of Antonio s conflicts, Anaya uses extremely vivid imagery to help us understand the meaning of this passage


This Passage is key in realizing Antonio resolves his conflicts between the Catholic God and the Golden Carp. The Catholic God refuses to let Antonio in to heaven during his dream because he worships the golden carp before God. God deems that I can have [one] who has golden idols before [me] (165) thereby forbidding Antonio from heaven because he had an idol, the golden carp, before God. God does not forgive Antonio because he is a not a God of forgiveness but when he does offer forgiveness God claims that Antonio must ask for Tenorio s forgiveness also. No! No! I cried, it is Narciso that you must forgive, (65) Antonio refuses the idea that he, Narciso and Tenorio could all be in heaven together. While Narciso was protecting Ultima from Tenorio, Tenorio claimed that she had put a curse on Tenorio s three daughters who were each slowly dying. After Antonio yells at God and the Virgin for wanting him to ask for forgiveness for Tenorio, too, God decides to burn the entire village for their sins. The Golden C

arp comes after the fires of the Catholic God and swallows the remains of the citizens of the burnt valley up and then changes them into new perfect beings. The dream after Narciso s murder helps Antonio settle the conflict between the Catholic God and the Golden Carp, Anaya also uses extremely vivid imagery to show that dreams help Antonio settle his conflicts.


Anaya uses extremely vivid imagery to show us that Antonio s way of dealing with his conflicts is through his dreams were he settles the conflict between the Catholic God and the Golden Crap. I held my bloodied hands out to touch [my brother s foreheads], Antonio tries to save his brothers from hell because they had sinned at Rosies the house of sinful women. With the words Bloodied Hands, Anaya shows that Antonio is trying to sort out the conflict of Narciso s death, while Narciso was trying to warn Ultima about Tenorio. The three Trementina sisters who had made a concoction of Antonio s black hair and the blood of a toad, the only animal that opposed Antonio, in life, led Antonio s tortured spirit, . The quote has the image that Tenorio s daughters are using very personal things to lead or torture Antonio with. Through the use of extremely vivid imagery Anaya shows us that a man s dreams are his way of helping him decipher his conflicts.


Through using conflicts, and extremely vivid imagery Anaya, shows us that the man s way of dealing with his conflicts are with his dreams. The ways men deal with their conflicts are with their dreams and by what is suggested by their own thoughts.

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