The question of guilt and fatefulness in the Chronicle of a Death Foretold

This bachelor thesis examines two major themes in Gabriel García Márquez's Chronicle of a Death Foretold. The work is based on an actual event in the author's life, and the layout of the chapters corresponds to this. Therefore, the theoretical part of the work begins with a biography of García Márquez, with particular emphasis on highlighting the circumstances that led him to write Chronicle of a Death Foretold. The thesis then goes on to describe the basic characteristics of the literary work under study. To facilitate orientation in the text, a list of characters most closely associated with the themes of guilt and fatality is included. A brief characterization of each of them also makes part of this work. The practical section explains how the 'scapegoat' was selected in the book and defines the difference between individual and collective guilt. This is followed by selected manifestations of the characters' collective guilt, juxtaposed with a chapter depicting characters who escaped the group's influence and tried to help the victim. The practical part concludes with a chapter on the fatality that is strongly present in the book through coincidences, and which prevented a good ending to the whole story