Unwrapped Writing of/from/to Garcia Marquez
...ilarly spread beyond Latin American borders” (The Magic of Marquez). Ending, the book conquered the winning of a Novel Prize. True to its title, One Hundred Years of Solitude masterfully analyzes that human superego which brings each individual to a torturous state of perpetual solitary confusion. Although taking no stance on the validity of societal morale, Gabriel Garcia Marquez uncovers the ways in which each character's beating conscience leaves him in the solitude of abnegation and self-punishment. Ultimately, Marquez accentuates a reality where not even profound wisdom can save one from the power of carnal desires. In the world Marquez has created, neither uncanny self-awareness nor unmatched Knowledge serve to enhance the personal lives of the characters when undercut by a societally molded conscience. In this epic tale of the Buendias, Marquez articulates a brilliant commentary on the path of the human race with family, and in turn, a group of individuals undeniably related physically and psychologically. He initially creates characters seemingly unique, yet who result in revealing glaringly similar characteristics, convictions, triumphs, and mistakes. For example, he created the character of “Colonel Aureliano Buendia, a veteran of 32 wars, each of which he started himself and each of which he lost. Marquez’s treatment of this character embodies every received idea about war and politics that has entered the liberal mind. Glory and honor, truth and right -are lethal chimeras that conceal the real reason why men fight and die, which is to gain power; tearing for years of each other’s throats, men lay waste to their country and gain absolutely nothing; decades of obligatory efface the only real life a good man ever has, which is to be found in family intimacy and tranquil work” (The Magic of Marquez).Marquez deliberately makes an ironic comparison: Colonel Aureliano Buendia's being a war hero should, by humanity's standards, place him on an even higher pedestal, yet the endless occupation serves only to further convince of his weakness and his being deserving of ridicule. With the same analyzing eye as the reader, Colonel Gerineldo Marquez tells him, "Watch out for your heart, Aureliano. You're rotting alive (Book-p.179)." His originally recognizable intensity and strength of will fall invisible behind a war of self-punishment for loving and losing a child, and his inability to escape an anger-driven battle against the world. Marquez plants his characters in a world realistically distorted; some wild, opposing force will continuously interrupt the expected, everyday life of a Buendia. Thematically, Marquez uses unconventional sexual behavior to pull each character away from their accepted moralities. Meme's obsession with Mauricio Babilonia inevitably sinks her deeper into solitude, for not only does his entrance distort her previous life, but colors it such that all else seems bleak and meaningless. With respect to her relationship with her father, the novel states, "She was so sure of herself, so anchored in her solitude that Aureliano Segundo had the impression that no link existed between them anymore, that the comradeship and the complicity were nothing but an illusion of the past (Book- p.311)." However distorted sexuality unites or separates Marquez' vital characters, each results in living a life tainted with guilt. Paradoxically, the solitude of two characters only weighs down heavier in their coming together, leaving each to their own tense realities of lonely insecurity, and disconcerting self-awareness. Ultimately, Marquez presents an individual immune to humanity's constant anxieties. Not surprisingly, her unperturbed, ceremonious actions of self-acceptance incite mostly unsurpassed adoration from those in the town. Her mannerisms differ, and so does her thinking: Remedios the Beauty's wisdom is supported by lack of concern for societal expectations, and therefore liberates her instead of imprisoning her in solitude. As a final reward for Remedios the Beauty, Marquez lets her bypass Macondo's ending destruction; having not been of this world, she disappears into "the upper atmosphere where not even the highest-flying birds of memory could reach her (Book- p.255)." In explanation of his bleak conclusion, Marquez clarifies the role of the parchments in the final line: "everything written on them was unrepeatable since time immemorial and forever more, because races condemned to one hundred years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth (Book- p.448)." By the unraveling of the Buendia existence, Marquez' readers can clearly recognize his key characters as having been "condemned" to their solitude and identify their futile wisdom as the means of their irreversible downfall. The novel ends as its lucid characters finally strangle themselves with self-perpetuated solitude. “One Hundred Years of Solitude fabulates an enchanted truth to bring art to bear on Colombia’s solitary, futile, and death-devocated history. It fashions and alternative perspective on the chaotic intermittencies of human meaning and fact, human elation and pain. Within this perspective, the story knows all. The narrative authority of the novel cannot wholly allay discomfort with distance between story’s easeful course and history’s agony. Not only is history replaced; story presses aside the complicating density of characterization that was a glory o...