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This is a 5 page paper discussing how the motif of violence is used to express the theme of solitude in Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s “One Hundred Years of Solitude”. In Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s “One Hundred Years of Solitude” written in 1967, he uses various themes throughout to help highlight the theme of isolation and solitude experienced by the community of Macondo in the book. One motif used is that of violence which reoccurs throughout the history of the community. The violent cycles within the work increase in their destructive nature but after each occurrence, the community suppresses the memories of the violence. This suppression of memories further isolates the community from reality and the outside world and they eventually create a society based on their own fantasies. Although violence is not meant to be a central focus of the book Marquez is very explicit in the details of the violence which does occur partly to awaken the reader to events which actually have occurred in the history of Columbia and which have been rewritten and suppressed in their own account but also to show to what extent the suppression of such violence can add to the solitude of a community and its characters.
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themes throughout to help highlight the theme of isolation and solitude experienced by the community of Macondo in the book. One motif used is that of violence which reoccurs throughout
the history of the community. The violent cycles within the work increase in their destructive nature but after each occurrence, the community suppresses the memories of the violence. This suppression
of memories further isolates the community from reality and the outside world and they eventually create a society based on their own fantasies. Although violence is not meant to be
a central focus of the book Marquez is very explicit in the details of the violence which does occur partly to awaken the reader to events which actually have occurred
in the history of Columbia and which have been rewritten and suppressed in their own account but also to show to what extent the suppression of such violence can add
to the solitude of a community and its characters. Gabriel Garcia Marquez wrote "One Hundred Years of Solitude" (Cien anos de soledad) in
1967 and it became one of the best read novels in the Spanish language since World War II (Blutstein, 1991). In it Marquez tells the life of a family in
the imaginary town of Macondo in Columbia. The characters experience a cyclical pattern of revolutions and exposure to outside conveniences throughout the work but overall they are isolated from the
outside world and their situation changes little. Their reality becomes altered because of their isolation and often violent and horrible events are considered a way of life within their own
culture (Blutstein, 1991). Despite the vitality of the family in the story, their solitude brings about a tremendous sense of irony as it is mixed with anger, violence and eventually
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