"One Hundred Years of Solitude"

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This paper examines Gabriel Garcia Marquez' book, "One Hundred Years of Solitude." The paper discusses the major themes in the novel, as well as how the characters relate to the themes. The paper shows how the characters in "One Hundred Years of Solitude" are quite schematically organized in the sense that the focus of the novel is not on a certain inner personal drama, but on the fate of an entire family over the course of time.

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"In One Hundred Years of Solitude, incest is at the beginning of everything as far as the plot of the novel. The first to have an incestuous relationship are Ursula and Jose Arcadio Buendia whose families will interbreed over decades. Incest shuts the Buendia men inside the boundaries of their own women-mothers-daughters, unable to love anyone else; fratricide is the way in which men finally end up contacting other men, under the mask of death and violence. The Buendia men cannot be saved because they do not learn from their mistakes, and are unable to assume responsibility for their actions. The act of incest has the emotional and psychological effect of making prisoners out of the Buendia men; they are caught in a situation which repeats itself generation after generation. Amaranta Ursula and Aureliano are the sixth - and final - Buendia generation to commit the sin of incest."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Garcia Marquez, Gabriel. One Hundred Years of Solitude. Perennial, 1998

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