you don’t control in your life”. (C.A.O.L “Dorfman” 1)In 1992 Dorfman wrote the play Death and the Maiden. This story was based on three main characters; Paulina is the wife of a lawyer asked to serve on a commission investigating the crimes under the previous government including her own brutal rape by a doctor. Through her husband, she meets the man she believes raped her. She kidnaps him and decides to place him on trial for crimes in her home. The play that was performed around London and New York was later produced as a film for which Dorfman gained worldwide recognition.After reading the interesting short story, The Rebellion of the Magical Rabbits, I decided to choose Ariel Dorfman as my significant twentieth century author. This story is about a pack of wolves that kill all the rabbits in the land. The leader of the pack of wolves declares himself king. He has a monkey, who is a photographer, take pictures of him so everyone in the land would know he was king. Everyone in the land knew that rabbits no longer existed and anyone who spoke of rabbits would have to answer to the king. In every picture the monkey took, rabbits appeared out of nowhere. The monkey using his photography skills fixed all the photos and gave them to the king, he also kept copies of the photos with the rabbits in them for his daughter. The king found the photos and thought that the monkey was a trader and tried to sabotage the pictures. The king wanted to kill the monkey but all of a sudden the lights went out and the monkey escaped. When the monkey woke up the next morning, he looked out the window and found the wolves hard at work; he saw the world was full of rabbits. Dorfman said, “This story describes the events that led to the fall of dictatorship.” (Dorfman “Rebellion” 462-474)Dorfman’s views on political oppression, the missing and Latin America caused him many trials and tribulat...
