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If he does wake back in his prison cell, Segismundo says, even that will be enough, as all “human happiness / passes by in the end like a dream.” Calderón ultimately implies that it is impossible to discern reality from illusion, and the only thing that is real for Segismunda is his perception—his sense of his feelings and his treatment of others.
Honor Killing. The Spanish phrase honor calderonian began with Calderón and refers to a mindless sense of honor that can force a husband to kill his wife, even if he suspects she is innocent. Through depicting such displays of honor, Calderón condemns the immoral and senseless codes of honor that were popular during the 17th century.
- Reality and Illusion
- Parental Responsibility
- What Honor Demands
The title of Life Is a Dream (La vida es sueño) expresses thecentral idea of the play. In the most simplistic and literal terms, theaudience knows more than the characters, being aware, for instance, thatSegismund is not dreaming in act 2, when Clotaldo later assures him that hewas, or in act 3, when he believes he might be. Any sense of certainty,...
This theme is more prominent in the version of the play in which Clotaldoturns out to be Rosaura’s father (rather than a friend of her father, as here).However, the main plot still provides ample exploration of the theme,particularly in the question of Basilio’s actions toward Segismund and whetherthe father is responsible for the actions and dispo...
The theme of what honor demands is the one that ties the plot and the subplot together most completely. Rosaura is the character most entirely motivated by honor, and Astolfo the character most lacking...
R. ter Horst. There is in Calderon a poetics of honor. The person afflicted under the code, man or woman, gains, through suffering and ad-. versity, a heightened awareness that very closely resembles a poetic sensibility. And this new sensibility desires, above all, to find relief. in expression, in confession.
Compares the treatment of the concept of honor in The Mayor of Zalamea (1643) with that of other plays in which the protagonist is an aristocrat. Maraniss, James. On Calderón. Columbia ...
Life Is a Dream (Spanish: La vida es sueño [la ˈβiða es ˈsweɲo]) is a Spanish-language play by Pedro Calderón de la Barca. First published in 1636, in two different editions, the first in Madrid and a second one in Zaragoza. Don W. Cruickshank and a number of other critics believe that the play can be dated around 1630, thus making ...
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The attack on one's honor may be provoked in one of three ways: by adultery or seduction, a physical blow, a verbal insult. Reparation for all but the first is fairly immediate; the aggrieved man responds-like thunder after lightning, as Calderon puts it- by attempting to kill his antagonist on the spot.
