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Gabriel Garcia Marquez

1. Explain possible answers for the Buendias’ limited capacity for love. 2. Contrast the concepts of solitude and solidarity through one generation of the Buendia family. 3. Comment on the stability of the Buendia women, when compared with the Buendia males. 4. What part does fantasy play within the novel? […]

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Critical Essays The Use of Prophecy

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

We learn that adolescence made Aureliano (the last adult Buendia) silent and “definitely solitary.” His brooding demeanor strikes both an echo and a foreboding in our minds: we sense in his tension that something will soon occur. He is always quiet and subdued. But he apprehends future events intuitively, and […]

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Critical Essays Machismo vs. Heroism

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Machismo (the need to express one’s masculinity through brute force, sexual profligacy, proliferation of male heirs, and subjugation of others — especially women) is a quintessential trait of the Buendias. Machismo is both responsible for their gallantry and for their courage, as well as being responsible for their suicidal persistence […]

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Critical Essays Sense of Illegitimacy

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Another obvious theme of Garcia Marquez is the sense of illegitimacy. In this novel, the logic of incest is always official bastardization, which is expressed in the ancient Buendia fear that incest will eventually produce a child with a pig’s tail. Garcia Marquez makes that fear a kind of self-fulfilling […]

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Critical Essays The Use of Cyclical Time and Fate

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Aureliano Segundo enters the novel midway — just before he dies — remembering events that are yet to be narrated. We come to know his story, then, as a retrospective future that parallels the beginning of the novel’s main plot. This chronological reversal of the novel’s various plots is a […]

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Critical Essays The Use of Fantasy

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

In 100 Hundred Years of Solitude, fantasy functions, for the most part, as parody. The official lies of the banana company, as well as Fernanda’s delusions of being a queen, are both powerful examples of how even frustrated ambition ultimately leads a person to succumb to a life of fantasy. […]

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Critical Essays The Theme of Solitude

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Almost without exception, the Buendia males are marked, as it were, with the tragic sign of solitude. And perhaps this theme can best be understood if one studies the individual characters themselves. As the most outstanding member of the second generation, for example, Colonel Aureliano Buendia is a perfect example […]

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez Biography

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Gabriel Garcia Marquez (nicknames: Gabo, Gabito) was born March 6, 1928. Like the strange banana town of Macondo in 100 Hundred Years of Solitude, his home was a tiny Colombian village called Aracataca, near the Caribbean coast. He seems not to have known his father and did not meet his […]

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Character Analysis Pilar Ternera

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The other woman of significance is Pilar Ternera. Among the original founders of Macondo, her parents took her there to separate her from a man who raped her at fourteen “and continued to love her until she was twenty-two.” Pilar comes to the Buendia house as a chore girl but […]

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Character Analysis Ursula Buendia

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

In all the stories by Garcia Marquez , the women have long lives. They seem more able than the men to make the best of life and to finally accept the inevitable solitude of aging in chronological time. Jack Richardson, in his review of this novel, correctly summed up this […]

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  • Study Help Essay Questions
  • Critical Essays The Use of Prophecy
  • Critical Essays Machismo vs. Heroism
  • Critical Essays Sense of Illegitimacy
  • Critical Essays The Use of Cyclical Time and Fate
  • Critical Essays The Use of Fantasy
  • Critical Essays The Theme of Solitude
  • Gabriel Garcia Marquez Biography
  • Character Analysis Pilar Ternera
  • Character Analysis Ursula Buendia
  • Character Analysis Melquiades, the Gypsy
  • Character Analysis Jose Arcadio II
  • Character Analysis Colonel Aureliano Buendia
  • Character Analysis Jose Arcadio Buendia
  • Summary and Analysis Section 16-20
  • Summary and Analysis Section 15
  • Summary and Analysis Section 13-14
  • Summary and Analysis Section 10-12
  • Summary and Analysis Section 5-9
  • Summary and Analysis Section 1-4
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