Regina Janes

This novel is one of the most popular in Hispano-American literature as Latin American I am very familiar with Gabriel Garcia Marquez. It stood out in the narrative current of the magic realism, a gender that characterizes between other things, for portraying the history of the marginalized in the society, and in Latin America, the native population. The postcolonialism is a theory on the decolonization and his consequences in the societies of the colonized and the colonists, his cultures and…...

Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude, published in 1967 describes the story of the birth and death of a small, fictitious Colombian town Macondo founded by the Buendia family. Macondo, at its birth, is an innocent and isolated town located between a swamp and terrain that is separated from the rest of society. The only contact with the outside world is from gypsy visitors, led by Melquiades, who make routine visits to Macondo and bring with them new…...

In One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Jose Arcadio Buendia and his wife move to Macondo, a young city, where they can start a family away from the pressures and scrutiny of their old home. Jose Arcadio Buendia “whose unbridled imagination always went beyond the genius of nature and even beyond miracles and magic” (8), constantly used his energy and time to develop inventions whose purposes were clear to him only, and whose results were lackluster compared…...

In One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez, the motif of productivity is used to explain the nature of the characters and their relationships. It resurfaces in many places and in many forms. Gabriel García Márquez uses this to show that unproductive work can lead one into intense solitude. He shows this through José Arcadio Buendía’s unproductive search for new inventions, Colonel Aureliano’s unproductive obsession with making little golden fishes, and Aureliano and Amaranta’s incestuous relationship. José Arcadio Buendía’s…...

Long in the history of humans, gender roles have depicted women through submissiveness and fragility, as in the emergence of the idea of marianismo in Latin America from the Spanish colonization. However, in Gabriel García Gárquez’s epic novel “One Hundred Years of Solitude,” where the Buendia family are intertwined in a cycle of solitude alongside the rise and fall of their hometown, Macondo, many women are characterized in contrast to their assumed gender roles, challenging the idea of marianismo. Throughout…...

As a recurring pattern keeps surfacing throughout a text, it reveals an idea that the author wants to prove to the reader. This thread contributes to the development of a work’s major theme. It continually reiterates a point to capture the attention of a reader and reveals its significance to the meaning of the work. In One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Márquez is trying to elucidate how the Buendía family are endlessly trapped within the fates that echo…...

García Márquez includes a number of motifs in his novel 100 Years of Solitude. One of the most prominent ones in the book is the motif of productivity, or more accurately, unproductivity. Many times, characters become trapped in an unescapable cycle that leads to nowhere. They are either forced into it by an outside force or they fall into it as a result of their own flaws. Once ensnared, the character is unable to find a way to free themselves…...

Who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” This quote from George Santayana lays out a common principle of life: Those who do not gain knowledge of the past, specifically past mistakes, are doomed to repeat it. More than that, those who remain aware of the past but refuse to learn from their mistakes are similarly cursed into a cycle of disappointment and suffering, as seen in 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez. Márquez demonstrates that…...

A novel is an experience that is either real or fictitious, but it exists in the mind of the author as a culmination of a series of events and experiences spread across time and space. Time and Literature are undeniably intertwined with one another. Because the events of life occur in time and exist in our minds as an experience which needs a narrative structure to be recounted, literature, in the same way, requires a narrative structure to portray stories…...

Human nature, or as defined by Wikipedia – “a bundle of characteristics, including ways of thinking, feeling, and acting, which humans are said to have naturally” is a term is often regarded as capturing what it is to be human, or the essence of humanity. The discussion of human nature is broader than any one's idea of it. David Hume, in his renowned book A Treatise of Human Nature (1739–40) describes that - “The identity that we ascribe to things…...

In One Hundred Years of Solitude, the main plotline revolves around the fictional Colombian town named Macondo, and its main inhabitants, the Buendia family. Though it is obvious to the reader that each member to the Buendia is crucially important to the novel, each visitor to Macondo also carries his or her own importance. Three of such visitors are Melquiades, Rebeca, and Moscote. None of them are purebred Buendias, yet each of them has a profound effect on the town…...

She unflinchingly goes on after the deterioration and death of her husband. She displays profound amounts of fortitude and perseverance. Ursula alone permitted the longevity of the Buendia family. Ursula prevented chaos by taking charge when needed most. Before the decline of her husband, Ursula did not appear as the superwomen that she eventually became. Marquez had the reader believe that she was merely the wife of Jose Arcadio Buendia. But Ursula first shines when her husband was distraught with…...

We have reached an age, where most things are done through TV and cinema. It is unfortunate many people do not read many books anymore. People would rather sit for a few hours in a dark room eating popcorn and watching a screen. In my opinion it is necessary for more books to be adapted in films. Some people might argue whether a great book such as Madame Bovary and The Great Gatsby can shine in the same light with…...

Siddharta, written by the German author Herman Hesse in the late 1880’s and One Hundred Years of Solitude, written by Gabriel García Márquez the Colombian author in 1967 are seminal novels that bring to the fore, the inner trials and tribulations that people go through. This paper analyses both these works and explores the theme of love that runs through the works. The paper first provides a brief plot of the two novels and then attempts to explore the theme…...