Commodification of Females in Gabriel Garcia Marquez’sMemories of My Melancholy Whores

Abstract

The researchtriesto unveil how women have been commodified in the Colombian society where capitalism and patriarchy are dominant social values throughthe study ofwomencharacters in Marquez’s novelMemories of My Melancholy Whores.Conditions of female characters are not better than marketable commodity.Females are controlled and deserted by the males who handle the property.Patriarchy in its capitalistic form torments and exploits women in different ways. Women are not regarded as human beings rather they are taken as commodities, devoid of feelings. Patriarchy humiliates females as ‘second sex’, weak and passive whereas capitalism regards women aslaborers. In capitalism, all means of productions are captured by males and the females are mere low paid workers.That’s why,females are compelled to sell their bodies as commodities in market. Hence, there is double victimization of females in present day world. All the female charactersare suffering from male domination caused by property handlings. So, to liberate them from such domination, economic distribution should be equalized and the concept of patriarchal superiority should be changed.