Octavio Paz and the Fiestas de México
The parties where Mexicans are always too iconic. Your sense of celebration is always present and ready to leave at any time, no matter what place, what date and how much you plan to spend. This is part of Mexican culture and more if the city or history gives us massive celebrations that unite family and friends. Personally, this is very present, in a normal day or week the Mexican may not communicate with absolutely anyone, being lonely and taking care of his own matters, but a party is approaching and begins to look for all his people and put themselvesOkay to do something very good. The book is mentioned as this individual does not have any type of control, it is completely uncontrolled, since it uses these meetings as an excuse to release everything that has frustrated inside, and is considered “normal” to end in drunkenness, fights, fights,reconciliation, crying, dances and scandalous laughs, is the only time in which the Mexican is shown as it is. In a workshop on abuse in courtship, it was commented that when a man drinks and shows a violent attitude, women usually attribute it to alcohol, but it is not so, alcohol is only to take away all those masks or ratherIt matters very little to keep them and are shown exactly how they are, that happens with the Mexican. Throughout the night he loses distrust and shame, he begins to express their feelings which ones they want to be.
Thanks to the festivities, the Mexican opens and participates, commune with his fellow men and with the values that give meaning to his religious or political experience. And it is significant that a country as sad as ours has so many and such happy parties (Paz, 1999)
From here to the idea that you have/had death. This enlightens us and prepares us to disappear, but death usually has a strange relationship with life. He mentions that, if you have a good life, death will be good or calm, but if it leads a bad life, death will be violent and that person would have looked for it, "tell me how you die and I will tell you who you are" (Paz, 1999). The concept of death has been modified as the years go by and for ancestors death was more symbolic, your life served for something: “Man accessed the creative process paying the gods and fed cosmic and social life, which wasnourished the first ”(Paz, 1999) and all this through sacrifice. In my opinion, death these days has taken a darker meaning and people avoid it as long as possible, it is something that, in many countries, is not spoken as if it were a kind of taboo, when at the end ofaccounts is something that will inevitably happen.
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