e family saga mirrored through the Buendia family. The Buendia family's predisposition towards self-destruction and solitude is highlighted by the cycles of self-inflicted destruction and destitute in the novel One Hundred Years of Solitude.

One Hundred Years of Solitude spans six generations, and in each generation the men of the Buendia line are named Jose Arcardio or Aureliano, and the women are named Ursula, Amarata, or Remedio. It is the history of the isolated town of Macondo, focu

ng on the lives of the most prominent residents of the town, the Buendia family. Each Buendia has individual qualities and attributes that separate him from the others. Every person is an enigma to everyone else.

One Hundred Years of Solitude is an a story where the past, present, and future merge into one. The story of a family, as oppose to an individual, and their downfall result an entire generations downfall. A historical cycle is lived through a generat

heir own little town named Macondo, in hope of escaping the wrath of fate. Their family lives through one hundred years in this way, before their destiny is fulfilled.

To him he minus-well be tied up to a tree because he is alien to anything real in the world.

Magic Realism, as expressed to help exaggerate different points, plays a role in isolation as well. Magic solitude is found in the way Jose Acardio Buendia, for example, isolates himself. The difficulties of his life aren't history, they are reality.

determined merely through a name. Jose Arcardios are victims of a murder or disease, three Auerlianos die with eyes open and mental powers intact, and all yield to self imposed exile in solitude which can last some decades. The women also share the sa

Automatically, repetition takes precedent in the novel. Repetition- a confusion and a problem that has plagued the human race since the beginning of time. From before the medieval times, throughout the 19th century, to currently in the 21st century,

ssible is an economic advantage. Sometimes such advantages caused a family to rarely branch out, a hidden disadvantage. Such disadvantage is satirized in the Buendia household through incest. Incest was a result and custom of not needing to branch ou

such specific physical, emotional, and mental details, the reader feels as though living the moments, that are in actuality so far from reality.

ve yet to cease. Such repetition is satirized through characters, death, and history in the Buendia family. "Once a person has been named then the major characteristics of his/her life have been determined, and a person is doomed to repeat events of l

own is plagued with amnesia, Jose Arcardio Buendia puts up signs to remind everyone of the daily essential activities that are needed for their survival. Interestingly enough, he finds part of those essentials to be to put up a sign that says G-d exis

h the Remedios, all three of who remain immature and either die young or disappear from the scene before they are fully able to develop.

ur history has found to repeat itself over and over again in over thousands of years of witnessing and documenting the same mistakes over and over again. Civil wars, World wars, hate, crimes, religious differences, all mostly stemming from a past that

t have a second chance on earth." (Garcia, 448)

their part to take control of their historical destiny? Each character was born into their role, a pre-determined, uncontrollable role by simple details such as their name. Likewise, when a human is born, it does not have a choice to go into a good h

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