Etiqueta: Class difference
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Chiruca Bilogy
A love between two worlds Chiruca works as a maid for the important Valdoviño ducal family formed by the Duchess, her oldest son and her grandchild, the youngest of the Valdoviño's, whose parents died and lives in America. One day, the administrator announces that the family’s wealth is in jeopardy and, facing the imminent ruin,…
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Lady and Mistress (Dueña y señora)
A convoluted love story Fernando is a young man from wealthy family origins who has fallen in love with Toña, the beautiful family’s housekeeper. Their passion leads to the birth of a child. However, Fernando gives in to the family pressure and marries Laura, a girl of his same social status. She convinces Toña to…
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The Famous Carballeira (El famoso Carballeira)
An aristocrat feels forced to marry a businessman. Setting aside social classes differences that draw them apart, his behavior induces her to start seeing him differently. THEMES: Love, Social Class, Marriage, Business, Social climbing, Seduction, High Class, Middle Class, Money, Family, Couples, Society GENRE: Dramedy, Romantic RELEVANT FACTS: The Famous Carballeira is one…
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The Chicken Thief (El ladrón de gallinas)
This story is about a famous female sculptor who gives shelter to a ragged man and starts taking care of him. Later, she discovers that she is starting to fall in love with the man. THEMES: Love, Impossible Love, Art, Social Class GENRE: Comedy RELEVANT FACTS: In 1954, in Mexico, the story…
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The buzzing of the bees (El zumbido de las abejas)
The story happens from March 1868 to February 1875. Tomás comes back to take over the family business of votive offerings and candle making after studying in Madrid. He comes back with his friend Mateu, a sculptor and intellectual whom he makes partner. Both Tomás and Mateu share a republican ideology. Mateu wants to revamp…
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The poison of theatre (El veneno del teatro)
Paris, 1784. Gabriel de Beaumont has been invited to the palace of a famous marquis, an aristocrat known for his eccentricities. Once there, he is requested to perform a play written by the marquis, about Socrates’ death. Soon he discovers everything was a trap. The aristocrat wants to experiment on him the limits between reality…
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Neither poor nor rich, but quite the opposite (Ni pobre ni rico, sino todo lo contrario)
Abelardo is a millionaire who is ready to lose all his money in order to gain the attention of his beloved Margarita. The young woman of medium-high class wants Abelardo to lose his money, because only then will be able to be together, according to her. When the protagonist loses his money, he is rejected…
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Thieves are honorable people (Los ladrones somos gente honrada)
The play unfolds around a white-collar robbery in the bourgeois home of recently married Daniel and Herminia. Daniel is a former thief who fell in love with Herminia when preparing to rob her parent’s home. This has made Daniel’s former partners to seek revenge and plan to rob them. Meanwhile, new characters come into play,…
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The handkerchief of the wandering lady (El pañuelo de la dama errante)
Benigno is a poor man that has hardly any money to eat. He lives humbly with his daughter, Lolita, and her boyfriend, Timoteo. Two strangers arrive asking for Lolita, coming in representation of Countess Amaranta. Everyone’s life is about to change: Lolita is the heir to a noble patrimony. THEMES: Family Secrets, Inheritance, Poverty, Social…
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Titania
Matilde, the main character of the story and a widow of a famous writer, falls in love with Benigno, a poor and illiterate man. People from her social environment call Matilde “Titania”, comparing her destiny to the destiny of the Shakespearian character from A Midsummer Night's Dream, who falls in love with a young workman…
