100 Years Of Solitude Essay

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The words “solitary” and “solitude” on majority of the pages has a significant role and part in 100 Years of Solitude and correlates with the members of the Buendia family well beings. All the members of the Buendia family finds there self alone and lost, weather the solitude is physical or emotional in their life. Gabriel García Márquez creates each character of the family to have a individual state of solitude through the characters past and future. The characters past affects now and the future, the past plays the future in the book. The family is extremely lost and it is based on their behalf and affected by solitary. The author of the book uses the phrase “solitary air” while discussing the family which might symbolize that it is genetic for the members of the Buendía family. No character feels his or her solitude the same way as another character, and every character in the family is subject to it. José Arcadio Buendía has solitude traits. For example he really fascinated by the magical science of the gypsies to concern himself with other people. He uses all …show more content…
Chapter 5 is called Solitude in Walden. In this chapter, Thoreau discusses what solitude means to him. He describes his life alone and how he enjoys it a lot. He feels that living alone, there are no strings attached to other people. You are free, your life is not bound to people and you can do whatever you want without having to meet people’s expectations and instructions on life. Thoreau compares this free living to nature and says that this is the way nature is. Nature is his company and supports him from being alone. The company of the animals, plants, and other key elements help him improve and keep him fulfilled. In 100 Years of Solitude, Solitude is sort of destroying the characters. They are not using it as a positive thing and it is bringing them down. Maybe if they used it as a good thing and not a way to escape their problems, it would help