Analytical Essay On Solitude

Analytical Essay On Solitude

Analytical Essay on Solitude
In the novel One Hundred Years of Solitude ,Garcia Marquez gives each character a kind of obsession, life problem or just fate that separates him from the society either in a   physical or emotional way, or in both.   The theme of endless isolation begins with the town of Macondo being isolated from the rest of the world. Within the Buendia house, the founders of the city, each member is separated from others both emotionally and physically. This is so not only because of their fate but, as it comes up many times in the book, because of some kind of obsession. Jose Arcadio Buendia, the founder of Macondo, is a solitary figure whose seclusion comes as a consequence of his obsession with modernizing the town.   Similarly, Jose Arcadio Segundo isolates himself as a result of the troubles brought by the modernization.   A very different type of solitude represents Remedios the Beauty, daughter of Arcadio and Santa Sofia de la Piedad, who doesn’t have anything in common with the other family members. Therefore, unlike most characters in the family who follow certain pattern of isolation from birth until death, she doesn’t have one at all so she has a different kind of cause for isolation. The most frequently occurring reason for solitude is either deciphering Melquiades’ writings, or doing scientific intentions in the laboratory, or fighting wars. This pattern of isolation is thematically significant because it shows how starting from the founder of the town, each character who tries to fight the isolation of Macondo is isolating himself at the same time, as if the curse of solitude shifts from the town to the character fighting it. It is as if each one who tries to go against fate is secluded himself and attempts at modernization only result in corruption.
From the beginning of the novel, Macondo is described in its new-born, innocent state where all the people are very young, no one has died yet and it ,”[…] was all so recent that...