How Does Marquez Present The Theme Of A Death Foretold Reality
So many times in life, humans question what is reality and what is illusion. The question of, is what we are seeing, feeling, experiencing, truly real, or are they all illusions? Marquez distorts the sense of time, the deaths of characters, the magical aspects, and the emotions of characters in order to highlight the experience rather than the memories; consequently, the distortions used creates irony, parallelism, and highlights main ideas in order to increase the effectiveness of showing the author's views on life. Distortion of events and characters allows for the reader to connect and it creates parallelism with the main theme of reality vs illusions, also speaks to author's philosophy on life and the 'magic' in life. His use of magical
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The readers first encounter with death in this novel, is when Melcheadies dies and then comes back. Marquez explains that, “The gypsy was inclined to stay in the town. He really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude.” (Marquez 46) This is showing that death is not final, also puts an emphasis on what the author believes death to be; lonely. Not only does Marquez emphasize the NON-FINALITY of death but employs vague descriptions, leaving the reader to infer his death. An example of the is when it is stated that HE “ ...would go back from room to room, walking in reverse, going back over his trail, and he would find Prudencio Aguilar in the room of reality. But one night, two weeks after they took him to his bed, Prudencio Aguilar touched his shoulder in an intermediate room and he stayed there forever, thinking that it was the real room.” (Marquez 139) The mystical aspect of death causes mystery in them as well, seen in the death of Jose Arcadio when “Rebeca later declared that when her husband went into the bedroom and did not hear anything. It was a difficult version to believe, but there was no other more plausible, and no one could think of any motive for Rebeca to murder the man who had made her happy.” (Marquez 131) This adds in the mystical element, as well as mystery (the only mystery never be solved). Using mystery in a different way, Marquez rarely ever straightforwardly states that someone is dead. The reader must infer, or allow a character to infer a death. An illustration of this is when Meme infers Mauricio Babilonia’s death: “Much time had passed when she saw the last yellow butterfly destroyed in the blades of the fan and she admitted as an irremediable truth that Mauricio Babilonia had died.” (Marquez 296) Another inference is when Jose Archadio Buendia die’s, Marquez wrote that,“He pulled
The readers first encounter with death in this novel, is when Melcheadies dies and then comes back. Marquez explains that, “The gypsy was inclined to stay in the town. He really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude.” (Marquez 46) This is showing that death is not final, also puts an emphasis on what the author believes death to be; lonely. Not only does Marquez emphasize the NON-FINALITY of death but employs vague descriptions, leaving the reader to infer his death. An example of the is when it is stated that HE “ ...would go back from room to room, walking in reverse, going back over his trail, and he would find Prudencio Aguilar in the room of reality. But one night, two weeks after they took him to his bed, Prudencio Aguilar touched his shoulder in an intermediate room and he stayed there forever, thinking that it was the real room.” (Marquez 139) The mystical aspect of death causes mystery in them as well, seen in the death of Jose Arcadio when “Rebeca later declared that when her husband went into the bedroom and did not hear anything. It was a difficult version to believe, but there was no other more plausible, and no one could think of any motive for Rebeca to murder the man who had made her happy.” (Marquez 131) This adds in the mystical element, as well as mystery (the only mystery never be solved). Using mystery in a different way, Marquez rarely ever straightforwardly states that someone is dead. The reader must infer, or allow a character to infer a death. An illustration of this is when Meme infers Mauricio Babilonia’s death: “Much time had passed when she saw the last yellow butterfly destroyed in the blades of the fan and she admitted as an irremediable truth that Mauricio Babilonia had died.” (Marquez 296) Another inference is when Jose Archadio Buendia die’s, Marquez wrote that,“He pulled