One Hundred Years Of Solitude Incest Analysis

One Hundred Years of Incest - A Look at Incestuous Relationships in “100 Years of Solitude” In the novel, “One Hundred Years of Solitude,” incest is a prominent theme and plays an immense role in the novel. Even from the very beginning with Ursula's warning that children born from incest will be born with the tail of a pig, and indeed at the very end of the novel, a Buendia is born a pig’s tail. For some families in Latin America, incest is not seen as taboo. According to an article on Envio.org, incest in parts of Latin America is so prominent that many families carry the same exact genes for generations. Because the Buendias’ have to consciously try to avoid incest, they are viewed as a family who are unable to escape their homestead and look outside of themselves. Thus, making the whole family solitary, in a way. Essentially, incest is the practice of keeping family members within the family, so it marks the Buendias’ as too disengaged from the world around them. Incest is viewed differently between different cultures, and in “One Hundred Years of Solitude,” the families use incest as a way of keeping to themselves, thus making it a form of solitude.
For years, different cultures around the globe prohibit incest, with …show more content…
These two end up having a child who is born with the tail of a pig, just like Urusla had warned. After the mother and child die, Aureliano II realizes the Buendia name has come to an end, so he locks himself up in a shed. This occurrence shows the solidarity of the Buendia family. In one way, it shows solidarity is that Aureliano II locks himself up in a shed to be alone after his realization, thus showing the family’s tendency to be alone and to themselves. Also, this family has intertwined so much that they will now cease to exist, and it is all to blame on their tendency to be secluded from the rest of the

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