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"[The Labyrinth of Solitude" by Octavio Paz, 1992.
An exploration of the Mexican character and identity including masks and symbolism.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 1 source, $ 39.95
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"As chronicled in Octavio Paz' masterwork, The Labyrinth of Solitude, the image of the labyrinth--with its many mazes, passages, lurking dangers, and mysteries--becomes the ultimate metaphor for study of the Mexican people. "The history of Mexico is the history of a man seeking his parentage, his origins.". In his book, Paz exposes the many sides that make up the people and culture of Mexico. The common image he uses is the mask that both hides the wearer from recognition, and yet links him or her with a deep and ancient past.
To better understand the Mexican people, Paz first takes the reader on a journey of extremes. From the relative quiet and desert of Mexico itself, to the hustle and bustle of Los Angeles. Even in the 1950s and 1960s, Los Angeles beckoned to well over a million persons of Mexican descent. This relocated Mexican..."
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The Labyrinth of Solitude by Octavio Paz, 1996.
Critical review of work on Mexican character, effects of isolation on individuals & society, responsibility, self-discovery, festivals, death.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 1 source, $ 47.95
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"In his book The Labyrinth of Solitude, Octavio Paz attempts to define the Mexican character in an effort to explain the crisis he perceived his people to be undergoing. The book is a combination of sociology, history and philosophy, tracing the salient aspects of the Mexican people and their culture from the Aztec era through the present day. In his analysis of his culture, Paz comes to the conclusion that the Mexican people are characterized by one trait above all others: solitude. By reading deeply in Mexican history and poetry, Paz came to believe that solitude was that which creates and defines the Mexican people, as well as that which holds them back from fully participating in the political and cultural dialogue of the world. Mexico..."
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The Labyrinth of Solitude by Octavio Paz, 1996.
Critical analysis of author's attempt to describe the Mexican character & spirit of Mexico.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 1 source, $ 47.95
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"This study will provide an analysis of Octavio Paz's The Labyrinth of Solitude, focusing on Paz' attempt to describe the character of the Mexican and Mexico. Paz is a poet and an imaginative thinker, rather than an abstract sociologist or scientist relying on statistics. Therefore, his description of the Mexican character is marked by images and vivid, sometimes troubling, speculations, rather than dry abstractions. In comparing the Mexican character to that of the American, for example, the author writes that "This Mexicanism---delight in decorations, carelessness and pomp, negligence, passion and reserve---floats in the air" (13). The solitude" of the title of the book is a state which humanity finds itself in as a result of the "collapse" of "universal order" (Paz 26). The world seems to be more and more complicated and mysterious. But human beings..."
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Octavio Paz' "The Labyrinth of Solitude", 1995.
This paper analyzes Octavio Paz' views expressed in "The Labyrinth of Solitude" on human nature and character of Mexican nation and people as shaped by poverty, dependence and oppression.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 1 source, $ 47.95
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"Octavio Paz, in The Labyrinth of Solitude, explores what it means to be a human being in general and a Mexican human being in particular. He explores the character of Mexico as if it were a human being, and even when he is examining abstract ideas---such as love---he also talks about Mexico:
Society denies the nature of love by conceiving of it as a stable union whose purpose is to beget and raise children. . . . Every transgression against this rule is punished. . . . (In Mexico the punishment is often fatal if the transgressor is a woman, because . . . we have two sets of morals: one for the "senor," another for women, children and the poor) (199).
Paz is a poet and a social thinker, and his picture of human nature and the Mexican character is full of original images. Paz ... "
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"Labyrinth of Solitude", 2002.
A perspective on Mexican history through the review of the book "Labyrinth of Solitude" by Octavio Paz.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 4 sources, $ 35.95
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This paper will discuss the nature of the book "Labyrinth of Solitude" by Octavio Paz, in understanding the historical applications that it creates. By realizing the power of the revolution that was created in Mexico, and is the subject of this poem. By realizing this view of Mexican history the cause and political rivals in the Porfiriato, as well as the student uprising in Talteloco in 1968, which brought great changes to the country.
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"The Bow and the Lyre" by Octavio Paz., 1994.
This paper analyzes the "The Bow and the Lyre", by Octavio Paz, a work on nature and power of poetry and its relation to life and politics in Latin America.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 1 source, $ 39.95
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"This study will provide a critical analysis of "The Bow and the Lyre", by Octavio Paz. The book is subtitled "The Poem, The Poetic Revelation, Poetry and History," and it covers those subjects and many more. Its most essential subject, however, is the role which poetry has played and still plays in the lives of human beings. Paz says in his Foreword that he has written this book to try to answer a question: "From the time when I began to write poems, I wondered whether it was worth while to do so" . Of course, Paz does think it was worthwhile to write poetry, but he wants to find out under what circumstances it is worthwhile, and what the relationship is between poetry and politics.
What Paz finds is that true poetry is poetry which has the power to change the world in dramatic and lasting ways. Poetry is ... "
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Paz's Writings, 2002.
An examination of Octavio Paz?s writings and how they impacted on Mexican nationalist pride.
1,505 words (approx. 6.0 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 49.95
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One of the major foci of Octavio Paz?s writings is the nature of being a Mexican or a mestizo. This paper shows how he attempts to persuade other Mexicans through his writings to be proud rather than ashamed of their 'in-betweeness'. The paper explains the writing form of Magical Realism and shows how it has been championed by a number of Latin American writers as a way to express political views. Paz uses highly symbolic and inventive language to make people look at the world in novel ways. Because he approaches the problem of Mexican identity through the use of magical realism, his writing is less threatening to many who are trying to negotiate their own sense of self.
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"Octavio Paz is one of the writers and thinkers most responsible for helping Mexicans come to an understanding of their own place in the world, and the relationship between ?Mexicanness? and mestizo-ness. Through his writings he has helped both Mexicans and everyone else come to understand that the mixed heritage of the people of Mexico is not something that should be attempted to be overcome but is rather something that should be celebrated."
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Solitude: A Single Word with Different Contexts, 2002.
The comparison of the theme of solitude in the novels "One Hundred years of Solitude" and "The World According to Garp".
780 words (approx. 3.1 pages), 6 sources, APA, $ 27.95
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A paper which compares and contrasts the theme of solitude in the novel "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez with the theme of solitude in the "World According to Garp" by Irving Garp. The writer of this paper illustrates how the solitude theme is similar and how the theme differs between the two works.
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"Marquez leads the reader on an exploratory journey through many scenarios but the firing squad is the ultimate of solitude. There could be one hundred people there as witnesses and yet the person who is about to be shot to death experiences the most intense solitude he has ever felt in his life. While it may be a drastic example of the theme it is one in which nobody can fully shield themselves from after realizing the tremendous connection to the term that it has."
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"One Hundred Years of Solitude", 2008.
This paper discusses the theme of solitude in "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
891 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 31.95
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The paper examines the types of solitude created by ghosts, memory and time in "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The paper shows how time seems to be the major source of solitude; ghosts are trapped in the past, those without memories are trapped in the present and those with premonitions are like ghosts from the future. The paper describes how, in the story, the entire town of Macondo seems to be experiencing the same problem because it is trapped in a cyclical time cycle.
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"Ghosts exist in two forms in One Hundred Year of Solitude. The first form of ghost is represented by objects that have fallen into disuse. The perfect example of this type of ghost is the Spanish Galleon in the jungle. When the Galleon is found it is said, "The whole structure seemed to occupy its own space, one of solitude and oblivion, protected from the vices of time and the birds"(Marquez 12). The fact this ship is beached in a jungle makes it a truly haunting image of solitude. It is an object that is out of place and forgotten. In this way the Galleon is a symbolic representation of the people of Mocondo. Both the Galleon and the people of Mocondo are cut off from the rest of the world and normal space time."
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"One Hundred Years of Solitude", 2002.
This paper looks at the themes of solitude and solidarity in "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 1 source, $ 26.95
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This paper discusses the means of solidarity and solitude in the book "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. By showing three examples from the book, the writer demonstrates how the lack of solidarity is created by magical realism.
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Lessons of Solitude in Emerson and Dickinson: "Listening to the Soul"., 2002.
Compares and contrasts Emily Dickinson's and Ralph Waldo Emerson's the perceptions and evaluations of solitude.
1,650 words (approx. 6.6 pages), 3 sources, $ 62.95
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This essay considers how philosopher and essayist, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and poet Emily Dickinson, each reveal important revelations on the values of solitude. Emerson sees the person in isolation as a person who is nearer to his own soul, and so nearer to God; Dickinson reveals her isolation as a site for inspiration with the natural realities of life and death. While Emerson states clearly his ideas of the value of solitude for reflection, Dickinson poetically portrays her life of isolation in verse that reveals her inspirations of divinity.
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Wordsworth in Pleasant Solitude, 2002.
A look at the themes of nature and solitude as a source of poetic inspiration in the work of William Wordsworth.
1,633 words (approx. 6.5 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 53.95
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This paper examines how nature was Wordsworth's greatest source of inspiration and how it was also his refuge, where he could find solitude-a theme that resounds everywhere in his poetry. It looks at Wordsworth's concepts of solitude and nature through an analysis of several poems and passages such as "Personal Talk" and "Lines Composed A Few Miles above Tintern Abbey". It also discusses how Wordsworth philosophises on humanity and explores his relationship to other people and to creation in general.
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"It is perhaps his calling that gives him the greatest motive to seek solitude. He ends "Personal Talk" by praising the poets and desiring to be one: "Oh! might my name be among theirs." And poets require an uncommon perspective on life. They need to view the scene in their own way. They need to watch the world function from a unique point of view, wherein there is no room for other people and their noise. They need to be somewhat removed, in order to act as the observer. This is why Wordsworth wanders "lonely as a cloud / That floats on high o'er vales and hills." "
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"One Hundred Years of Solitude, 2002.
Discusses Columbian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez's use of the literary technique known as "magic-realism" in his novel "One Hundred Years of Solitude".
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 5 sources, $ 35.95
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The term "magic realism" seems, at first glance, to be oxymoronic. How can anything real seem magical? How can magic be real? The interconnectedness, however, of the quotidian and the fantastical is a hallmark of Latin American literature and one of the greatest living practitioners of this literary technique is the Columbian writer, Gabriel Garcia Marquez. In his masterpiece, One Hundred Years of Solitude, the author creates what is probably the best known, and best loved, example of the magic-realist tale.
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"One Hundred Years of Solitude", 2007.
A review of the validity of the history found in "One Hundred Years of Solitude," written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
1,500 words (approx. 6.0 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 49.95
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This paper introduces, discusses and analyzes the novel, "One Hundred Years of Solitude," written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Specifically, it discusses how well the novel summarizes Latin American history from the era of the explorers to the recent present. The paper reviews the history depicted in the book and concludes that the novel is a good overview of Latin American history, particularly the history of Columbia.
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"Finally, the entire fabric of the novel indicates how Columbia and Latin America altered through the 19th and early 20th centuries, and how the people changed as well. The families and characters of the story endure, and they represent the Latin American people - devoted to family, spiritual, independent, and proud. They represent the culture that has slowly died, and literally are a step back in time to look at the history of a country and its people, and how it alters through time. The family represents all the families in Latin America who have seen their way of life disappear to be replaced with something more modern, but far less magical and appealing. The book looks at history with a twist, and makes it much more enjoyable - even enchanting - to read."
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"One Hundred Years of Solitude": A Study in Isolation and Despair, 2002.
A detailed analysis of the literary style of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and the primary themes of one of his most famous novels, "One Hundred Years of Solitude."
2,508 words (approx. 10.0 pages), 10 sources, MLA, $ 76.95
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A researched and analytical essay exploring the imaginative literature of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The essay includes an introduction before exploring the text, including a look at social milieu, literary influences, and the existence of magic realism in "One Hundred Years of Solitude". The writer continues with a review of the literary devices used in the novel, as well as characterization and finally provides a conclusion of the themes.
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"The lyric, imaginative literature of Gabriel Garcia Marquez perfectly captures the essence of the human psyche and all of its conflicting emotions. Garcia Marquez has a firm grasp of both fantasy and psychology and utilizes the technique of magic realism in order to present the dichotomy of illusion and reality and reveal the varied emotions that this dichotomy entails. Garcia Maquez also explores the psychological ramifications of prolonged solitude in many of his literary works, and "One Hundred Years of Solitude", his most famous novel, represents the culmination of this theme in reference to the contrast between fantasy and reality. In "One Hundred Years of Solitude", Gabriel Garia Marquez masterfully fuses his rich ethnic heritage with a vast repertory of literary devices and characterization techniques in order to relate the tragedies of the Buenda clan to his central moral thesis that psychological solitude destroys ones perceptions of reality and ultimately leads to sorrow and despair."
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