The Importance Of Time In One Hundred Years Of Solitude

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Introduction: This essay will focus on the relationship between time and human. The book cleverly portrays the characters individually and how they present time through age. Moccondo was distinguished out of the World. In Moccodo, there were some characters that showed how time changed their lives, such as Ursula, Colonel Auroliano Buindia, and Jose Arcadio Buindia. They tried to join the world, but there were some barriers that changed life of them by passing time. The characters were living in a simple life style, but their lives were changed since they got difficulty. In One Hundred Years of Solitude, time has different effects on all the characters due to the different reactions of the characters to the events. This essay will examine …show more content…

Firstly, it focuses on the time when Colonel Aureliano Buendia is on his own compared to when he engages in society as a political figure. At first, when he is alone, he seems happy as a child and he is a clever boy. But his loneliness does not appear to be depressive for him. It is a state of solitude rather than loneliness. However, later, when he grows up and becomes the leader of the Liberal Party fighting against the government, which is a pro-conservative state, his personality totally changes. he becomes less emotional. He does not trust others and it seems that even though he is now engaged in society, he is very …show more content…

She has to protect her family and take care of them since Jose Arcadio Buendia is not so much concerned like her about taking care of the family and he is always engaged in his lab. She struggles to protect the family's name and this might be why she is too worked out. She too much concerns for the family's happiness has made her forget about her own happiness. For instance, when Jose Arcadio leaves with the gypsies, she sets out to find him. But when she returns to Macondo, she seems happy and radiant. Throughout the novel ,the burden of taking care for the family has put her in a struggle between maintaining her family's happiness and her own. Aureliano José had been destined to find with [Carmelita Montiel] the happiness that Amaranta had denied him, to have seven children, and to die in her arms of old age, but the bullet that entered his back and shattered his chest had been directed by a wrong interpretation of the cards. Throughout One Hundred Years of Solitude, the idea of a predetermined fate is accepted as natural. After all time reoccurs and sometimes seeing into the future can be as simple as remembering something in the past. In chapter 8 however a prediction of the future has an effect on it. This novel presents power throughout and this is more thoroughly exemplified in the final pages when the destruction of Maconda is brought about by Aureliano's (II)

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