Obsessive Love and Destruction in Sabato’s Novel
Love, for many, is liberation. He went to prison, the soul first, then the body, deeply desiring a woman, wanting to lose track of what was happening to himself, not realizing that his whole life was finally based on the realization of his desire, which was to be with her, treating her as if she were his wife, when in fact it was not, nor would it be because she was married to another man, and whatever it is what it felt for and that it is clear that not relinquish its status by a lover.
In fact, more than love, or a pathological love, is a sense of uncontrolled possession that seizes Castel. Although he continually repeated that what bothers him most is that Maria Iribarne does not want to fool with her husband, in fact he hates it that she does not submit to him as a slave.
Castel, in truth, behaves like a child wanting an alien toy. Knowing that the protagonist is some forty years old, is clearly not right in the head, because that is typical of adolescent love teenagers, not adults.
This love becomes a need for total possession of his beloved, and the love ends up in hatred and is surrounded by a compelling need to kill her.
Because of such high emotions overflowing passion between Maria and Juan Pablo, they reached the point where things are reversed from love to “hate,” going slowly by distrust, insecurity, and resentment that leads to thoughts, events, and reactions shown between the lines of the novel where the feelings are confused and lost than are eaten by repudiation and rejection.
Because of the constant questions that John Paul asked, both cause resides in the anguish that was choking him every day, the anguish that she did not love him and this time they were making fun of him, and everything is an absurd lie on her side, then the anguish that shape the doubts were strengthened within and he demonstrated it in their attitudes towards Mary, mixing questions and then repent, as our protagonist changing once was cold and hostile was invested back into the dim ashamed to be overshadowed in internal humiliation clearly demonstrated in their strange attitudes and putting fully exposed its vicious spirit possession and focusing more obsessive and morbid jealousy.
John Paul, at first, not knowing and not suspecting that his beloved was married for quite some time with another man a little older, one way or another sensed something for their efforts to analyze everything, so I felt a deceit in it, a hoax that filled him with curiosity and finally drowning in questions that ultimately could not find satisfactory answer to it. Knowing this about Mary, Castel felt very helpless feeling an overwhelming zeal that with the advancement of this novel comes to the deductionsion that the solution to their problems would be to end the life that you did so much damage and at a time of strong, humiliating and low action because of his anxiety, he preferred to opt for the term of life of his beloved, perhaps with so that never again fool anyone can achieve and so selfish that no one apart from him, possessed, in his reasons for committing this crime was that his death would affect much less than all the facts and deceit that might follow doing in the future, this shows his stance a bit selfish and individualistic as to be playing God.
Treated within the work of Sabato we realize that the unbridled passions and impulsive lead to any man directly in the pit of destruction. If we can realize that every being is a world unique, a separate world where we can highlight to affirm values and anti-values that only every master of his world could come to discover and to decipher their own puzzles.