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

ust, is destructive to human kind, because to forget is to allow to happen again. Jose Acardio Buendia was trying to make everyone remember the most important thing they had, and that was to know where they came from.

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

Every action causes a reaction, every new beginning comes from some other beginnings end. Consequentlly, action, reaction, beginnings, and ends inevitably cause one person's doing to result in something unpredictable. Similarly, it also seems to say

umbus finding America, the New World. "...the world was so new, many things did not have names and to mention them one had to point with a finger." (Garcia, 71) When the pioneers first found Americas, the new plants, animals, and resources were so astra

Soledad in Spanish means loneliness, the sense of being apart from others. Failure and lonesome work synonymously in One Hundred Years of Solitude. The time solitude for 100 years has become equivalent to repetition. The founder of Macondo, Jose Aca

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.

e or a broken home, fit parents or unfit parents, or their way of death. The Buendias had 100 years destined for them.

om, where her and Jose lived happily before he died. She refused to come out of the house, turning down marriage proposals, eventually rotting along with the house, and being forgotten about. Many times solitude leads to extermination; extermination in

e to them, that they too could only mention things with a point of a finger, rather than by a familiar name. Technology was also a prominent metaphor. Mequiades and the gypsies had tools to help them navigate, a magnify glass, and other new devices Ma

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

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.

characteristics of their ancestors, and are usually given the same adjectives to describe them throughout the novel. Amarata Ursula inherits the great amount of energy and initiative of her namesakes, especially Ursula. There is also a visible link w

one house. The Buendia house always had various relatives with it; it even allowed all seventeen sons from seventeen different woman feel welcomed in the home. Blood ties often become business contacts, and keeping in touch with as many relatives as

at fate is bound to happen, no matter what is done to try to alter it, fate can not be changed. In this novel, when Jose Arcardio Buendia marries his co

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