scales. They are created by repeating a process in a continuous feedback loop. The world is a fractal: when viewed as such the concept that principles that apply within Macondo, can apply to society in general is much less absurd. The novel One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez could be summarized as a detailed history of the Buendia family and the town of Macondo where they reside. The novel also details fictional accounts of events identical to their non-fictional counterparts. With
Repetition in Macondo Throughout the novel One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel García Márquez, there is a strange amnesia that seems to affect every member of the Buendía clan. This is portrayed through many generations of recurring mistakes. The members of the Buendía family are unable to progress due to their inability to learn from the mistakes of past generations. Jose Arcadio Segundo is an excellent example of this. After witnessing the massacre of the banana plantation, he isolates
It is common for people to criticize American presidents, but history has shown that worse leaders and forms of government have existed. In Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude, Arcadio, a school teacher, after being given the position of Macondo’s leader by his uncle Colonel Aureliano Buendia, demonstrated how cruel certain forms of governing can be. For example, he had a trumpeter shot for playing a disrespectful melody. Additionally, when Don Apolinar Moscote insulted Arcadio
Loneliness is a universal concept throughout both literature and the real world. Although it is possible that loneliness is a personal choice, a majority of people are isolated from others due to social barriers. The novella Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck recounts the tale of a group of men living on a ranch in the era of the Great Depression, more specifically the story narrates the lives of two men, George and Lennie. After being chased out of Weed because of a false rape accusation, the two
Again this shows that raiders often went raiding to prove themselves and got rich at the same time. This source refers to Norse religion encouraging raiding because they believed that the day of one’s death was predestined and one could do nothing to change it. This meant that a raider was not in any danger of death by going on a raid if that time was not predestined and that if you did happen to die in battle then you would go to Valhalla which was a form of paradise in the