One hundred years of loneliness and incest
The novel "One Hundred Years of Solitude" was written in 1967 by Colombian novelist Gabriel García Márquez, he was a renowned teacher of universal literature, he was born in Aracataca, on March 6, 1927 and died on April 17, 2014.
“One hundred years of loneliness is a precision built work, by a genius of the narrative that weaves characters and motifs with a dazzling ability. The novel touches everything without just solving it, and in this lies the greatest fascination of it: there are no spaces where we cannot find ourselves."
In this essay we will address the issue of incest and loneliness as predicted by the title, a loneliness that all its characters are condemned to have, this is reflected in the Buendía family, the context of this novel was between the 19th and 20th years Recognized for civil wars. When we talk about loneliness we can relate it to isolation, the absence of a partner or a feeling of nostalgia when feeling the absence of a loved one or something we wanted to be with us but it is not.
In order to address the subject we have to know how the facts are developed in the work, the story focuses on the couple formed by José Arcadio and Úrsula Iguarán who lived in a ranch, José and Úrsula were cousins, these characters leave the ranch With a group of friends towards the foundation of Macondo, it is here that the events of loneliness develop causing the incest by mentioning the incest we can say that it is “a sexual relationship between very close consanguineous relatives or that proceed by their birth of a trunk common". And loneliness is a "feeling of sadness or melancholy that is because of the lack, absence or death of a person".
Developing
Obviously in this work the central theme is loneliness, because it is this feeling that marks the life of the characters especially in men. Loneliness is a feeling that accompanies the members of this town especially to the Buendía family, it is a loneliness of which everyone wants to evade in any way but which is something unattainable that is why they decide to assume the reality that entails them to live.
"Loneliness is an attribute of men.".
In the last lines of the novel, the writer García Márquez reaffirms the idea of loneliness when he expresses "that the city of mirages would be razed by the wind and banished from the memory of men at the moment that …" if we focus on The words "razed" and "banished" ratifies the loneliness that was witnessed in the Macondo people exterminated by the wind and that will even more will be banished from memory. And the last line of the paragraph says "because the lines condemned to one hundred years of solitude did not have a second chance on Earth".
We can see the loneliness reflected in the character Colonel Aurelio Buendía, this is due to the lack of love that demonstrates causing emotional instability to be with different women and having children with each of them, what he did to solve this was to isolate himself but There was so despair not to face the loneliness that I make the decision to shoot in the chest, to which he fails to take his life. If we analyze the case we can affirm that a love disappointment can lead you to perform unconscious acts that you can harm other people or oneself. The cause of why the characters in the story are subject to loneliness is their inability to love, to which it comes to an end with the conception of the son of Aureliano Babylon and Amaranta Úrsula; only son who was conceived with a real love. But since nothing is perfect this son was devoured by ants. What this family lived and its decency was a curse of the "loneliness" that was as punishment of the incest: "They married among the same family members and generation after generation lived tragedies that made them isolate and lock themselves".
In short we can affirm that what the novel shows is a constant repetition of events that lived the Buendía family because of the incest. We can see the incest in Amaranta’s scene and his nephew Aurelio, who was raised since child experienced an unknown shudder in the vision of splendid breasts with purple nipples ”(p.94) It is from that moment that Amaranta begins to look with other eyes to her nephew "then not only slept together, naked, exchanging exhausting caresses, but were persecuted by the corners of the house and locked themselves in the bedrooms at any time" (p.95). If we analyze the text we can notice the sexual desire that exists in these two characters leading them to experiment of the love that was emerging by leaving aside the theme of the blood loop, getting carried away by the passion that they felt approaching the threat of incest; This is where Amaranta realizes the possibility that the incest arises that decides to end the adventure he had with Aurelio.
We can also mention that the inhabitants of the Macondo people only knew the culture of their ancestors, which allowed the coital relations between individuals of the same blood bow, giving this as something normal that could happen in families.
Finally, we can say that the inhabitants of the town do not realize that their actions causing incest are those that condemns them to an endless loneliness, being aware that run the risk of this happening come to take it as something usual that could happen in Families to the point of putting it as a "tradition", which is why it is said that they had "100 years of curse by one of the last descendants with the famous pig’s tail so much warned".
conclusion
The novel "One Hundred Years of Weld" does not say that the sexual union between the same blood ties lead to strange scenes, as we saw in the Macondo town away from the outside world starting a new culture which was subjected to 100 years of hardships, marking thus the eternal loneliness. We can also see how they were aware of their actions and the causes that incest could cause, but still sexual desire was inevitable for them. "With time Macondo evolved by bringing new political systems from which they wanted to free Macondo from the curse that pursued them, I would say that the conclusion is that it is like a reflection of our reality of how societies evolve, people etc".
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