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Evita and Maria as Powerful Women

Both Evita and Maria, in Evita (by Nicholas Fraser and Marysa Navarro) and Child of the Dark (by Carolina Maria de Jesus), are products of a combination of both their times and circumstances as well as of their exceptional individual characters. The special circumstances of their lives challenged and drove them to accomplish what they did, forced them to do far more than they perhaps would have done in less challenging circumstances. Of course, there is no way to determine the dividing line between such internal and external forces, but clearly without a powerful inner drive to survive and succeed, neither woman would have overcome adverse circumstances. Both women were powerful characters, but Evita strikes this reader as a woman driven by vanity, while Maria seems to be a woman of great depth.

Evita's (or Eva's) early life showed none of the political involvement of her later life, although she was, with other girls, conscious of her socioeconomic deprivation and had a "'sense of outrage at injustice' directed at their families, their dull villages and their poverty" (Fraser and Navarro 11). Ambition and the desire to be in the spotlight were present in her at an early age:

Many girls possessed what she called a . . . Many of them wanted to be actresses, but most of them followed their parents' wishes, married safely and well, continued to live in the provinces and go to the movies once a week. Eva Maria had no money, little education and no proven talents, but she wanted to conquer the city and be a star (Fraser and Navarro 11).

Evita, of course, not only conquered the city, but conquered the country and became a "star" as the wife of the President Juan Peron. At the age of fifteen she left home to pursue wealth and fame, and eight years later she had become "one of the best-paid radio actresses of that time" (Fraser and Navarro 27). She had already risen above her circumstances to stand above the crowd. Obviously,...

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