What is the significance of clothes in Laura Esquivels Like Water For Chocolate and Patrick Suskinds
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Clothes can be validly employed as a characterization device to a definite extent as it functions as a language in novels and thereby significantly influencing our perception of individuals. This is particularly true of Patrick Suskind's Perfume and Laura Esquivel's Like Water For Chocolate as both writers depict characters through clothes and edify readers how to use clothing as an indicator.
Patrick Suskind and Laura Esquivel make conscious decisions of the clothing for characters as well as which details of that clothing to draw attention to. Never has a novelist described a character's entire outfits. Only some details are revealed in order to create a uniqueness for every character. This can be justified by "what is true for life is also true for literature" particularly for Perfume and Like Water For Chocolate. In general, most of the immoral people in the novels seem to hide their skin from others by wearing thick and or dark clothes as if they are hiding their kindness. It is the same in the case of Baldini and Mama Elena as both try to hide their skin from others the same way they try to hide their stink and benevolence. Baldini wears gloves, blue prosperously decorated coat and a wig. He covers most of his body with these accessories...