Step into García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude

After reading "One Hundred Years of Solitude", I felt that behind the loneliness of the characters in Márquez's book there was a strong sense of firmness and fatalism.

A sense of solitude and firmness is mainly reflected in these characters

Colonel Buendia, who started making small goldfish in 1 week.

2 Amaranda who repeatedly untied the sewing of the shou robe.

3 Rebecca, the old dead earth-eating woman in a dilapidated house.

They all choose to be firmly alone, a loneliness that is not disturbed by the outside world, never wavers, does not talk, is a kind of loneliness that actively distances itself from others, and Márquez gives the reader this explanation:

1) Colonel Buendía repeatedly made little goldfish in his later years because he had a little understanding of the secret of happiness in his later years, but he signed an agreement with loneliness that was not dignified.

2) In her later years, rebecca, who ate dirt, her family wanted her to come back to live, but she refused. The reason he gave was that he had worked hard for years, endured so much to win the privilege of loneliness, and would never be used in exchange for an old age disturbed by false and charming pity.

They accept loneliness and show perseverance in loneliness. So why do they insist so much on solitude? This should be related to the background of the story writing. Latin America has been in a turbulent environment for hundreds of years, and since Columbus discovered the American continent, successive colonists have arrived one after another to frantically divide this rich land. This was followed by successive civil wars and one diabolical dictatorship after another. The loneliness that Márquez's colonel insisted on was not a retreat, but a struggle, a tribute to the Latin American people and the true heroes of that era. They resisted in the face of the colonizers' wanton plunder, and fought tirelessly under the brutal rule of one dictator after another. But their efforts are that they are physically and mentally exhausted, driving away one batch after another, driving off the stage one after another, and coming up one after another, never ending. There is no one in the world to hang on to this continent, no one to help them, this is the loneliness of that continent. So as Márquez wrote, since you can't break the painful status quo, and you can't get rid of this loneliness, then hold on to it, my lonely existence, that is, my lonely struggle!

Two lonely fatalism

The names of the characters in the book are so similar, which is also intentional by the author, because it can reflect the reincarnation of their fate.

In the work, when the family men are young, they either devote themselves to invention and creation, or they throw themselves into battle and resistance, but in the cycle of reincarnation, they cannot get rid of the fate of loneliness, and the cycle begins again and again, and loneliness is predestined. Macondo eventually also ended up in Hurricane China for soot. If it is not the inevitable wear and tear of the wheel of fate in the process, and this rotating wheel will roll forever, then is there a way to break this fate? Márquez gave the answer: the root of loneliness in "One Hundred Years of Solitude" is because there is no power of love. Love here is not just love, but also love for life and life. It can be seen that Márquez still has ideals, although this rationality seems very utopian, but he still aspires to create such a utopia, where love is really there, happiness is real. Those families who are destined to experience a hundred years of loneliness will always enjoy the opportunity to be reborn on the earth!