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Death and The Maiden Reflective Statement

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Death and the Maiden Reflective Statement

By: Cheng Teck Lee, 11PR


June 12, 2014
After reading the play Death and the Maiden, and the interactive oral, I have developed a deep
understanding regarding philosophy. I believe the play is a message from Arial Dorfman himself to the
reader experiencing dark situations, that they are not alone, that there are other people in this world
having experiences similar to them.
Paulina Sala, being raped prior to the events of the play, gave her a psychological scar, and makes her
tied up into the past, while her husband, Gerado Escobar, thinks more rationally about moving forward,
and these twos opinions have been clashing throughout the play, which becomes a theme out of it.
Anyone can relate this theme to an obstacle we all go through in our respective lives. The question is:
will you deal with it, or are you going to let it deal with you? The obvious, rational answer is to deal with
it, but the real question is: how are you going to deal with it? This question gives every single one of us a
respective answer that is neither right nor wrong, regardless, despite or in spite of other peoples
opinions on your answer(s). Similar to Paulina being tied up into the past it is eating her up, slowly
destroying her, making her insane. It is hinted when Paulina tortures Dr. Roberto Miranda, who she
believes is the perpetrator who tortured and raped her before the recent restoration of democracy in
Chile, with his body odor, his voice, and the tape of the song Death and the Maiden he owns, are all
evident to her.
This play also lets me relate to perception in the Theory Of Knowledge. When Paulina was raped
blindfolded, she remembers the song Death and the Maiden being played during the crime, the voice of
the perpetrator, and his body odor, to which Paulina strongly believes that Dr. Miranda is the
perpetrator himself. These factors that convince Paulina are not solid evidence due to that your five
senses are not reliable in certain situations. Furthermore, Dr. Miranda owning the Death and the
Maiden cassette tape, was not close to anything, other than he happens to own the tape. Moreover,
scientifically, genetic variation is infinite, as if its as big as a universe, and because of genetic variation,
there can be two different people, whose voices and body odors are similar, could be close to being
exactly the same.

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