Essays Tagged: "years of solitude"

One hundred Years of solitude- by Gabrial Garcia Marquez- this paper discusses the repitition of life patterns in the Buendia family.

One hundred Years of solitudeThe village Mocondo is founded by the fated cousins Ursula and Jose Arcadio Buendia ... e family members down the line, as each feel the need to seek solitude. Solitude during the Utopian Years was essential, since outside forces would corrupt it. Yet, once the Utopian Society is corrupt ... it. Yet, once the Utopian Society is corrupted, solitude becomes a reclusive monster during the war years. Colonel Aureliano, during the height of his career, comes to a revelation that he is only "fi ...

(4 pages) 111 0 4.3 Apr/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

The portrayal of politics in South American literature

major preoccupation with contemporary South American novelists, as seen with Gabriel Marquez's '100 years of solitude' and Isabelle Allende's 'The house of the spirits', is the traditional and long la ... anner in which this preoccupation is expressed varies considerably depending on the author. In '100 years of solitude', Marquez looks to satire in all it's forms, to express this preoccupation. This i ...

(4 pages) 94 0 3.7 Jan/1997

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

The portrayal of women in the novels "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Marquez and "The House of the Spirits" by Isabel Allende.

The portrayal of women in the novels One Hundred years of Solitude and The House of the Spirits differs greatly. In One Hundred Years of Solitude emp ... cumented anticlericalism this idea in church ideology of the temptress is paralleled in One Hundred Years of Solitude albeit the figure of Eve in her roles is split between the matriarchs of Macondo n ... n the matriarchs of Macondo namely Pilar Tenera and Ursula Iguaran. In the beginning of One hundred years of solitude: 'The world was so recent that many things lacked names, and in order to indicate ...

(6 pages) 116 0 4.4 Apr/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The Impact of His Work on Latin America

960's but later turned to writing such famous novels as The Autumn of the Patriarch and One Hundred Years of Solitude. The writings of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, because of both their ingenuity and contr ... hor [who] has received an international reputation since 1941'1. His most famous novel, One Hundred Years of Solitude not only became an international best-seller, translated into twenty-five language ...

(4 pages) 154 0 3.3 Feb/1994

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Critical reaction to Marquez's One Hundred years of Solitude.

One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, chronicles the rise and fall of the Buendia family in ... golden miniature fish. Aureliano dies, in solitude, under the same tree where his was once tied to years before. Lastly, Macondo, is a town of solitude. Its geographical location is removed from othe ... el, because the time frame contradicts outside events that occur.A reoccurring theme in One Hundred Years of Solitude is sex and incest. The Buendias view of sex is not a sacred one, but of animal ins ...

(3 pages) 72 0 5.0 Sep/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

The Theme of Obsession in '100 Years of Solitude' by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Obsession in One Hundred Years of Solitude Boy meets girl. Boy likes girl. Over time, boy and girl fall in love. Boy a ... abriel Garcia Marquez utterly rejects in the development of relationships in his novel, One Hundred Years of Solitude. Garcia Marquez created the novel as a chronicle of humanity, truthfully presentin ... other tragic episode. Gerineldo's obsession with Amaranta manifests itself less overtly, but as the years pass, the thoughts "about his afternoons in Amaranta's sewing room" never depart (184). Even a ...

(6 pages) 43 0 0.0 Nov/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature

Religion in Gabriel Garcis Marquez's "One Hundred Years of Solitude"

In "One Hundred Years of Solitude", one largely recognizable theme that Gabriel García Márquez present ... ects the outside religion, and technology, had on Latin American traditional culture.In One Hundred Years of Solitude, the character Fernanda del Carpio embodies the rigidity of Catholicism, the major ... l ridicules organized religion.García Márquez frequently uses miracles in One Hundred Years of Solitude to further express the hypocrisy he finds with religion and social constructs of L ...

(3 pages) 48 0 3.0 Dec/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature

Alternative ending to "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Marquez

"One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, in general was a hard novel to understand and read. Hi ... he used a lot of irony in his work. Now one case of irony that Gabriel Marquez used in one hundred years of solitude was how in the end Aureliano (II) sees that it was the end of the Buendias family ... y Aureliano (II) "Had already understood that he would never leave...races condemned to one hundred years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth" (Marquez,)My objective is to make a mo ...

(4 pages) 24 0 3.0 Jan/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature

"Chronicle of a Death Foretold" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Gabriel Garcia Marquez is known for his short stories and novels, especially ''One Hundred Years of Solitude,'' which has magical vitality and a great abundance of remarkable characters and i ... y in which the detective, Garcia Marquez himself, reconstructs events associated with the murder 27 years earlier of Santiago Nasar, a rich, handsome fellow who lived in the Caribbean town where the a ...

(7 pages) 64 0 3.9 Apr/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature

"The Bet" by Anton Chekhov: Character Analysis of the Prisoner

bet for two million dollars, under the conditions that he stays in solitary confinement for fifteen years. The man, whom we come to know as "the prisoner", stays in confinement for almost fifteen year ... ith only five minutes remaining, he renounces his quest for the two million dollars. In his fifteen years of solitude, the prisoner has come to the realization that money is of no significance in comp ...

(2 pages) 16703 0 0.0 May/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Gabriel Garcia Marquez' use of historical events and their fictionalization in his novel One Hundred Years Of Solitude.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez' One Hundred Years of Solitude alludes to many of the historical real events of Columbia. Specifically, the Banan ... st popular historical background of Marquez' novels and we can see this specifically in One Hundred Years of Solitude with the invasion of the Conservatives in Macondo in Chapter 5. Arcadio is left in ... past from before the war, and he found only rubble, trash, piles of waste accumulated over all the years of abandonment… and in the air that had been the purest and brightest in the house an u ...

(7 pages) 31 0 2.5 Dec/2007

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature > Authors

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Marquez

ia women in contrast to the Buendia men. Include the reasoning behind your observations.One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Marquez is a novel focused on the life of the Buendia family. There are ...

(5 pages) 17 0 3.0 Dec/2007

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature

Chronicle Of A Death Foretold

s published, Márquez captured the nobel prize in literature for a previous work, One Hundred Years of Solitude. Historically speaking, Chronicle and Márquez' other novels are all part of ... tiago's who takes an active part in the exploration of his murder, interviewing those involved many years after the event occured. He interviews Pedro and Pablo Vicario, who state they killed Santiago ...

(7 pages) 13 0 5.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

One Hundred Years - Book Report

I. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez II. One Hundred Years of Solitude is the history of the ... ople of the town aren't accustomed to. Thousands of the workers are massacred, which is followed by years of ceaseless rains, flooding the town. This sends the town on its final decline, with the Buen ...

(3 pages) 14 0 3.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History

The Concept Of Fantasy And Reality In Marquez's On

e case for the people of the fictional city of Macondo in Gabriel Jose Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude whose magical world is presented with a world of modernity and technology to which ... ry potent strain of magic that in fact does run through our daily lives."(Modern World) One Hundred Years of Solitude, then, is a realistic novel in the sense that it asserts a unity between the surre ...

(5 pages) 26 0 1.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Art Essays > Artists

Isolation within One Hundred Years of Solitude and How it is More Beneficial to Survival and Progress

ing a detriment to humans; it can actually prove to be beneficial to their progress. In One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Márquez, the author portrays the isolation of the charact ... ough the disastrous storm that takes place within the village. The rain that lasts for nearly three years wipes out and destroys nearly everything. The weather of Macondo changes in order to reflect t ...

(5 pages) 3719 0 0.0 Feb/2010

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

The Strength of Women in One Hundred Years of Solitude and the House of the Spirits

The strength of women in One Hundred Years of Solitude and The House of the SpiritsGabriel Garcia Marquez and Isabel Allende both give wo ... rquez and Isabel Allende both give women strong leadership roles in their novels, as in One Hundred Years of Solitude and The House of the Spirits women play a significant role in family affairs. Men ... y strong and the day to day activities going. Without these women, the families in both One Hundred Years of Solitude and The House of the Spirits would perhaps fall to pieces.In One Hundred Years of ...

(7 pages) 23 0 0.0 Jun/2010

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature > Authors