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Judges Wife Essay, Research Paper

Self Fulfilling Prophecy

In the story, ?The Judge?s Wife,? by Isabel Allende;

Nicholas Vidal, the son of Juana, the Forlorn, came in to

the world regardless of the countless tries of violent

abortions. Vidal was born with four nipples; therefore, the

mid-wife predicted that Vidal would lose his head over a

woman. This same prediction was later confirmed by a Turkish

fortune teller at the corner shop. Vidal lived his whole

life cold and ironed-hearted too all women. This included

his mother. Vidal avoided contact with women so that the

prophecy would not come true. In the end, faith caught up

with him in any ways.

Near beginning of the story, Vidal did not feel that

Casilda was attractive. He describe her as, ?This ethereal

slip of a girl in her wedding gown, eyes filled with wonder,

and fingers obviously unskilled in the art of rousing a man

to pleasure, seem to him almost ugly.? Vidal preferred his

women with dark hair. He never would have known that

Casilda would cause him to lose his life.

His mother was treated the same as any other women.

When the judge decided that he needed to capture Vidal, the

judge used Vidal?s mother as ?bait.? Locked in a cage in

the center of town without food and only a pitcher of water,

Vidal?s mother begged and suffered tremendously. Three days

without water Vidal?s mother could not begged any more. She

laid helplessly in the cage. This sight for any son would be

unbearable. Vidal did not come. Perhaps, Vidal did not

have any contact with his mother over the years. He may have

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