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In Ariel Dorfman’s play Death and the Maiden (1991), being a woman serves to legally, politically, and socially prevent justice for Paulina, a rape and kidnapping victim who was captured by a dictatorial regime in Chile. Paulina seeks to achieve her own form of justice through extracting the truth from her alleged attacker, Roberto, while at the same time dealing with her complicated husband, Gerardo. The punishment Paulina enforces upon Roberto serves to emulate the torture she endured while captured. Gerardo’s acceptance of the presidential appointment to serve as the head of the Investigating Commission on Human Rights Violations reveals that his priorities focus on climbing the professional ladder and conflict with the wellbeing of his wife, Paulina. Gerardo’s assignment is to pursue cases such as Paulina’s, but ultimately, he investigates only those that have led to the victims’ deaths. Paulina, therefore, is tacitly deemed as undeserving of justice because her torture did not end in death. In addition to his lack of professional support, Gerardo also serves as one of Paulina’s greatest oppressors through his domestic, personalized attacks and his extreme, misogynistic sense of ownership over his spouse. Gerardo essentially utilizes Paulina as a servant rather than viewing her as his equal and in doing so highlights the bias placed against women in both the public and private spheres, which demoralizes them and discredits the authenticity of their claims.

Service the Superior: An Examination of Women’s Relationship to Justice in Ariel Dorfman’s Death and the Maiden