there exists some external force that determines his destiny. In

Grecian times, the epic poet Hesoid wrote of a triumvirate of

mythological Fates that supposedly gave "to men at birth evil and

good to have". In other words, these three granted man his destiny.

Clotho "spun the thread of life", Lacheis distributed the lots, and

Atropos with his "abhorred shears" would "cut the thread at

death"(Hamilton-43). All efforts to avoid the Fates were in vain. In

every case their sentence would eventually be delivered. And it

appears that once the Fates' ballot had been cast, the characters in

Greek myths had no chance for redemption. One must wonder if man, like

the Greeks portrayed, has any real choice in determining how he lives.

That issue of choice arises when comparing Gabriel Marquez's One

Hundred Years of Solitude and Yasunari Kawabata's Thousand Cranes. The

men in Yasunari Kawabata's Thousand Cranes and Gabriel Garcia

Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude forever seem to be repeating

the lives of their male ancestors. These cycles reveal that man as a

being, just like the mythological heros, has no true choice in the

hand, the Aurelianos, corresponding to the open-eyed Colonel, seem to

the pattern of incest continues when Jose Arcadio sleeps with Pilar

relationship that ultimately ends in the suicide of his newfound love.

same thing as his father had done before him, but with the next

ltimate course his life will take. The male characters' personal

Arcadio had come to look at Pilar as a comforting mother. In that

basket"(415). Aureliano Babilonia was trying to "spare themselves"one

Buendia was slightly crazy, his raw maleness is transferred to all the

any Buendia before them to examine their relationship and prevent the

wrong becoming involved with Fumiko. With her he is tormented,

be "indifferent"(15) and "withdrawn"(186) yet sparked with a "fearless

lots to show how small the individual's role is in determining his

coincidence. Kawabata and Marquez are distributing the males these

design. Kikuji Mitani and the male Buendia's face communities that

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