Life In Plato's 'One Hundred Years Of Solitude'

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Human and Time
Socrates, who was one of the most famous and known Greek emperor, said that “All men’s souls are immortal, but the soul of the righteous is immortal and divine” (Socrates), so in his quote, he might explained the true meaning of gaining immortality which he meant a person who is right in his or her life gains the immortality and divine. Moreover, several generations passed through the time, and every generation forgot the previous of them. Therefore, human beings tried to challenge time and looked for gaining immortality in every way that they could. Also, many people deserve to be remembered for a long time, as an example, for their actions that they did in their time. The One Hundred Years of Solitude which was written by …show more content…

Since being brave needs hard work to be, it depends on the person who tries his or her best for it. There are few who made themselves immortal by their bravery in One Hundred Years of Solitude, such as Jose Arcadio Buendia, Jose Arcadio, and Colonel Aureliano Buendia. To more illustrate, Jose Arcadio Buendia killed Prudencio Aguilar when he was told that Jose was impotent. Moreover, Jose did not let any human beings try to talk about him and his family directly or indirectly because he was known as the most enterprising man in his village. Likewise, Jose Arcadio successed in his life when he rescued his brother from Colonel Gerineldo Márquez while they wanted to murder him. To demonstrate, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was the bravest person when he was partial of the rebellions. In addition, the One Hundred Years of Solitude was mentioned that “He survived fourteen attempts on his life, seventy-three ambushes, and a firing squad” (Marquez), so it meant that he was not a craven person who will try to hide from problems or any circumstances beside he will face them in his way. Also, in our modern life, there are some of those kinds of great people who are did brave actions that are still remembered. An example of a brave person of the modern life is Nelson Mandela who was the president of South Africa, and he was known of not letting his people to live …show more content…

Invention is the best way to stay in people’s mind, especially if it was a useful and essential invention for the community like creating new technologies and inventing new medicine for some diseases because many people use them in order to make their lives easier and healthier. For instance, Jose Arcadio Buendia invented several machines, such as telescope, camera, and bird cages for Macondo to make the nature’s sight more stunning, and by the beautiful view of birds, it helped the gypsies to find Macondo easily. Similarly, One Hundred Years of Solitude stated that “José Arcadio Buendía then decided to build the memory machine that he had desired once in order to remember the marvelous inventions of the gypsies.” (Marquez). Also, their new generations invented boat and train roads to transport in many regions and trade between Macondo and other cities. In addition, One Hundred Years of Solitude showed that Aureliano Triste discovered a new way of transportatiing to other places which was by train. Also, José Arcadio Segundo brought bout to Maconco which was a new technologh, so made some French people to come to Mocando and do carnivals. Additionally, the boat and train brought so many people to Macondo which made trading easier by importing resources from foreign regions. To illustrate, Macondo had been the best place for people to live in because of the social services they had. Also, many different cultural people were

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