The beginning is brutal and very realistic for the time period and the influence they are under. Women are regarded only as an object of entertainment by the enslavers. The father of Maria and the husband of the inhumanly murdered woman, loses himself seeking for revenge and suffocating his daughter with his obsessive behavior, not allowing her to live her life. When Maria shows interest for something in life, it's taken by the father away, thus showing her great importance to him and that she is all he has now. He is too caught up in his vengeful and violent emotions that he doesn't let her live. Maria finally finds her love that makes her forget all this traumatic events, but is too soon badly burned under the walls of the wooden house. All the characters are not destined to find their happiness and to put aside their accumulated intense feelings. They are already dead even though they are alive.
The beginning is brutal and very realistic for the time period and the influence they are under. Women are regarded only as an object of entertainment by the enslavers. The father of Maria and the husband of the inhumanly murdered woman, loses himself seeking for revenge and suffocating his daughter with his obsessive behavior, not allowing her to live her life. When Maria shows interest for something in life, it's taken by the father away, thus showing her great importance to him and that she is all he has now. He is too caught up in his vengeful and violent emotions that he doesn't let her live. Maria finally finds her love that makes her forget all this traumatic events, but is too soon badly burned under the walls of the wooden house. All the characters are not destined to find their happiness and to put aside their accumulated intense feelings. They are already dead even though they are alive.
