One Hundred Years Of Solitude Analysis
Kyle(Wonyeon) Lee
Judy Miller
Texts and Ideas: Doubles and Masks
October 13, 2017
Doubles in One Hundred Years of Solitude Literature has been used to question our everyday lives, a history or a culture. More specifically, an appearance of magical elements in a novel combines the real and the imaginary and creates a fantastical but believable story. The use of symbol, emotions of characters or dilemmas characters face has a capability of letting the reader connect the unrealistic world in a literature with a real world. In the novel One Hundred Years of Solitude, author Garcia Marquez introduces the Columbian culture with cyclical, repetitive but exaggerated a story. And then, he forces the reader to question the absurdity of history and our …show more content…
Even though Colonel Aureliano Buendia and Aureliano Jose at least attempt to change caught up in the cycle, revolution that is not for the right cause and selfish is negative. Their solitudes are still there after their attempt to change and their changes bring nothing to the world, forgotten by the world and no one, including the lover, values it. The hopeless nature of families in One Hundred Years of Solitude, the fact that their achievements, efforts, and ultimately their lives are wiped out from the history, suggests that their attempts to free themselves from the solitude are always doomed to failure because of selfish nature of their actions. This brings the reader to question how often political decisions that is often called as revolution is affected by national figures’ personal motivations and if our society is successful in separating the public and personal decisions of them. Gabriel Garcia Marquez also questions the reader whether people follow the leader because they are popular for popular, or whether people think about the actual meaning and purpose of revolution beforehand. If the revolution starts with good faith but turns into an act with personal and selfish motivation, the history tells us that it has a high possibility that it will end in tragedy, like a massacre of millions of people. Although, Colonel Aureliano Buendia lets his bloodline and his men to be dead, not millions, in a novel of magic realism, reality is more brutal than the novel sometimes. Not only political revolution, but also revolution of oneself in a daily life can lead to madness: The madness that can be caused by an obsession of unobtainable love like that of Aureliano Jose in the novel. If one believes that simply joining the army with selfish and personal motivations is a revolution, he or she also brings the question if that action deserves to
Judy Miller
Texts and Ideas: Doubles and Masks
October 13, 2017
Doubles in One Hundred Years of Solitude Literature has been used to question our everyday lives, a history or a culture. More specifically, an appearance of magical elements in a novel combines the real and the imaginary and creates a fantastical but believable story. The use of symbol, emotions of characters or dilemmas characters face has a capability of letting the reader connect the unrealistic world in a literature with a real world. In the novel One Hundred Years of Solitude, author Garcia Marquez introduces the Columbian culture with cyclical, repetitive but exaggerated a story. And then, he forces the reader to question the absurdity of history and our …show more content…
Even though Colonel Aureliano Buendia and Aureliano Jose at least attempt to change caught up in the cycle, revolution that is not for the right cause and selfish is negative. Their solitudes are still there after their attempt to change and their changes bring nothing to the world, forgotten by the world and no one, including the lover, values it. The hopeless nature of families in One Hundred Years of Solitude, the fact that their achievements, efforts, and ultimately their lives are wiped out from the history, suggests that their attempts to free themselves from the solitude are always doomed to failure because of selfish nature of their actions. This brings the reader to question how often political decisions that is often called as revolution is affected by national figures’ personal motivations and if our society is successful in separating the public and personal decisions of them. Gabriel Garcia Marquez also questions the reader whether people follow the leader because they are popular for popular, or whether people think about the actual meaning and purpose of revolution beforehand. If the revolution starts with good faith but turns into an act with personal and selfish motivation, the history tells us that it has a high possibility that it will end in tragedy, like a massacre of millions of people. Although, Colonel Aureliano Buendia lets his bloodline and his men to be dead, not millions, in a novel of magic realism, reality is more brutal than the novel sometimes. Not only political revolution, but also revolution of oneself in a daily life can lead to madness: The madness that can be caused by an obsession of unobtainable love like that of Aureliano Jose in the novel. If one believes that simply joining the army with selfish and personal motivations is a revolution, he or she also brings the question if that action deserves to