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Food for Thought

Introduction

The power of food should not be taken lightly for one cannot exist without it. It provides nourishment to sustain life, provide energy and promotes growth. Food is symbolically used to comfort or suppress one's emotions, as well as used to express passion, love and resistance. Food becomes a vehicle for the passion for women cook and the act of cooking is an expression of love for characters in the novel. Beyond real magical treatment appears next to appearances, states of subconscious feelings of guilt or love. The recipe implies that there is a ritual combined with freedom of expression that simultaneously satisfies hunger. Both the food and intimate relationships have one thing in common: both activities generate pleasure. Sometimes, as in life, food becomes real protagonist of the story. The profile of the food makes ostensibly display and as such is related to erotic literature as another exhibit more human pleasures.

Thesis Statement

In Esquivel's Like Water for Chocolate, the problems of romantic relationship are symbolically highlighted in the preparation of the Chabela Wedding Cake, Quail in Rose Petal Sauce and Champandongo while in Atwood's The Edible Woman, it is symbolically highlighted in the consumption of the frozen peas and smoke meat, and ended in the baking of the pink cake.

Representing Food in Relationship

Beginning in the late 19th century and continuing through the Mexican revolution that began in 1910, the story of Like Water forChocolate takes place on a ranch in Coahuila, located on the border between the United States and Mexico. The story is told in the first person by a young woman whose great aunt is Tita, a main character in the work. The title of the novel refers to the process of boiling water for hot chocolate, and "when someone is about to explode, we say that person is 'like water for chocolate,'" explains scholar Claudia Loewenstein in her interview with Esquivel published in Southwest Review. Fittingly, Esquivel's romance tells the story of two characters, Tita and Pedro, whose passion is so strong that they are about to explode. Atwood creates situations in which women's burden of rules and inequalities in their societies, you find that they have to build courage and self-personae alive. "At the end Edible Woman, Marian partially reconstructs that new persona or self-knowledge through again relationship with food. Marian withholds certain challenges with foods," every day, no point in hoping that his body can change their mind "(178). Rejection of food is a metaphor for his rejection of the human dominated by the society to which it belongs. His whole life is dominated by men. When Peter suggests, the body Marian begins to refuse food and is unable to eat. Because he feels like he consumes, Peter, she could not consume food and she not only lost her appetite, but she lost her self-image.

The authors have emphasized on the passion of the women mixed and presented in their food. The chabela wedding cake, quail in rose petal sauce, champandongo, frozen ...