Diego Rivera

Diego Rivera and Octavio Paz, two Mexicans with different careers who throughout their life they represented and analyzed Mexican history, identity and society in their works. They tell a sad story astory of a country that has a rich intense past on history and culture a result of a country conquered by Europe, a country that was conquered, betrayed and violated by “La Madre Patria” that is whatMexico is now, a cultural contrast of the Pre-Columbian Mexico to the modern Mexico, the Indigenous people always repressed by the wealthier, politicians seeing for themselves instead of caring forthe growth of their own country and in general how the Mexican is repressed by the Americans.
Mexico is a country that even though it is now independent claims justice, equality and trueindependence. Mexican identity and Mexico’s history is bond to one another because if it wasn’t for our past then the Mexican wouldn’t be what it is now. Rivera’s murals focuses more on representingthe history of Mexico while Paz’s “El Laberinto de la Soledad” analyzes Mexican identity based on Mexico’s history.
Octavio Paz, who searches for the identity of the Mexican people in hisstudy entitled “El laberinto de la soledad” (The Labyrinth of Solitude), does not need to search for his own identity as one of the great Latin American poets and essayists in the twentieth century.Born in Mexico City in 1914 to a family embedded in politics, literature, and journalism, Paz began to immerse himself in writing about cultural and political issues at a very early age. I will befocusing on Octavio Paz’s Labyrinth of Solitude is collection of essays, most of them reflections on political history and how the Mexican has a complex of defeat starting since the Aztecs. The way hewrites about Mexico is very deep and analytical, sad but realistic. “In a certain sense the history of Mexico, like that of every Mexican, is a struggle between the forms and formulas that have been...