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Posted by Tesse I know, and I usually do ramble, but unlike Molina, I try to know when to shut up. :^) Yeh, so would I... but until someone else posts other opinions, I'll babble on. Let's see... Another major theme of the story, as I mentioned in the opening page of the site, is love being used as a weapon. Molina's love for his mother is used by the warden as a tool to get information from Valentín. Valentín's love for Marta puts both himself, Molina, and his movement in great danger, since he cares more for her safety than for Molina's life or his movement's success. And Molina's love for Valentín is used to track down Valentín's group. This final ploy of the Warden leads directly to Molina's death, when he agrees to take the message to Marta, and then refuses to betray his friend when their plan is discovered. It's the age-old waltz of love and death, just set to a new tune. Another theme could be one of simple role reversal. In the course of the story, Molina essentially becomes Valentìn, and Valentín becomes Molina. Molina learns to be tough, brave, and political, while Valentín learns to accept fantasy and to let the world spin on its own, without trying to completely change its direction. It's a massive shift for each of them, but neither could make that shift if any twist in the plot had been different. That's one reason why I love the story so much- it moves so quickly and yet so subtlely, until Molina is brave and Valentín is passive. Puig (and, by proxy, McNally) work in the indications of these changes just beautifully- Valentín asking Molina to spell God with a capital G in the book, Molina telling the guards off in the musical. Props to both authors for that. I'll shut up now and let other people talk. What do y'all think are the themes of the story?? Cheers,
on 11/4/2001, 13:35:01
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Tesse
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