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¶ … Solitude
In Gabriel Garcia Marquez's novel One Hundred Years of Solitude, the author tells the story of seven generations of the Buendia family who live in the Macondo. The patriarch of the family has determined that the rest of the world is malignant and consequently demands that his family and their offspring all reside in isolation, apart from the rest of the world. Through the century that is covered by the plot of the novel, the men of the Buendia family become embroiled in all manner of sin and violence as they break away from the peace of their isolated life and become increasingly connected with the peoples of the outside world. Although the majority of the novel deals with the violence or diplomacy that is perpetrated by the men of the family, the female characters are at the crux of the events of the story and in fact most often cause them. The different female character types are epitomized by three Buendia women, Ursula Iguaran, Fernanda del Carpio, and the extremely popular and outgoing Renata Remedios.
Ursula Iguaran is the matriarch of the Buendias and married to Jose Arcadio who is the individual who founded Macondo and...
In the tradition of strong, Hispanic mother characters, Ursula fully supports her husband's decision because she too feels that the world has sinned. However, Ursula is also one of the most unfortunate characters in the piece as she is unlucky enough to live throughout the century that is covered in the text, living beyond the age of 130. Consequently, she must witness the ideals that she and her husband had established wither and die with each passing generation of Buendias who comes along.
Fernanda del Carpio is part of the fourth generation of Buendias living in Macondo. She is also one of the few important characters in the piece who was not born in the community, but was raised in a well-to-do family who had chosen to isolate their daughter from the world. Therefore, she is both an embodiment of the pollution of Macondo from the outside world and a representation of what kind of person emerges from a family wherein she has been forced to have limited experiences with the outside world. When Fernanda marries into the Buendia family, she becomes hardened by the realities of her life and how…
Works Cited:
Marquez, Gabriel Garcia (1988). One Hundred Years of Solitude. Random House: New York,
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