Purisima+del+Carmen

Purisima del Carmen || Purisima del Carmen is the mother of six, twin sons by the names of Pedro and Pablo, two elder daughters we do not know the names of, another daughter that died from nighttime fevers, and a youngest daughter by the name of Angela. Married to Poncio Vicario, she had given up her former life as a schoolteacher and dedicated herself to being a wife and mother. Through her strict manner of childrearing, the brothers were brought up to become men and the girls reared to get married. Purisima saw the courting of Bayardo San Román as a “prize of destiny” and required her daughter Angela to accept on the basis that “love can be learned too”. || The name Purisima del Carmen translated directly from Spanish means ‘pure of song’. However, the word ‘Carmen’ also has a variant ‘Carmel’, which was one of the titles of Virgin Mary, Santa Maria del Carmen, meaning Saint. This pertains to the self-sacrificing characteristic of Purisima in //Chronicle// where she dedicates herself to wifehood and even more so to motherhood. The element of “purity” reflects back to the dedication she has and the dedication she imposes onto her daughters on the “ancient science”, unlike the “other girls of the time”, who have long “neglected the cult of death”. || Alan Shen ||
 * Character Name** ||
 * Character Name** ||
 * Role in Plot** ||
 * Role in Plot** ||
 * Significance of Name in Work** ||
 * Significance of Name in Work** ||
 * Student’s Name** ||
 * Student’s Name** ||