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"Cholera Love" is the last book I have ever read, stemming from not liking the word "cholera" in the name of the novel, because the new crown virus has swept the world, making people feel like tigers for the first time. But idle I still picked up, this is a book that makes my heart ache, there is happiness for the completion of love, and there are regrets for this love that has been too late for 53 years.
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About the author of the novel "Cholera Love" and the connotation of the novel
Garcia, author of Cholera's Love. Márquez, whose fame is the Nobel Prize-winning One Hundred Years of Solitude, but he himself considers Cholera Love to be his most satisfying work.
I have always thought that the novel is a love story of the hero and heroine during the cholera period, which is only part of what the author wants to express, and the real connotation is that cholera is just a metaphor for love, and our love is like cholera, which makes people pain from the outside to the inside, but our love also needs to be under the protection of cholera to get a peaceful life.
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A love story between a woman and two men in the novel
Márquez changed the stereotypical love triangle of the general playwright into the storyline, but used the writing method of the later generation, so that people could see that they finally believed in love, and there was such an infatuated man in the world.
Heroine: Fermina
Hero No. 2: Her husband, Dr. Urbino
Male Protagonist No. 1: Her young lover Alyssa
The novel uses flashbacks, starting with the elderly Fermina's husband, Dr. Urbino, who fell to his death after catching a parrot. The male protagonist Alyssa finally expects the death of her husband Fermina, so after helping to take care of the funeral, she immediately expresses the love that has been hidden in her heart for more than 50 years to the goddess Fermina in her heart again, although the two are more than 70 years old at this time.
Alyssa never married, but was initially rejected by Fermina, but in her sleep, she used interpolation techniques to recall too many episodes of the two falling in love when they were young, even more than the grief of missing her husband at this time.
The boy was not troubled, when Alyssa fell in love with the young and beautiful Fermina at first sight, and the two secretly exchanged letters for four months, and finally were discovered by the rich merchant father who wanted to marry the woman into the nobility (initially a horse thief, came to the new city, successfully whitewashed his identity), for which the father took his daughter on a long journey for a year. At this time, Alyssa was like having cholera, tea did not think about food, vomited up and down to the point of incurable, but did not take substantive action to pursue love.
The arduous journey, the harsh environment and the panic of war that occurred at any time awakened Fermina, who had been living in aristocratic fantasies, so that after the trip, although the two met again in the bazaar, when Alyssa went to remind her not to buy anything here casually, Fermina saw the poor and unconfident Alyssa, and the Prince Charming in her heart was too far away, and for the first time she rejected his love.
Seeing you today, I woke up like a dream, and what happened between us is nothing more than a fantasy
Why Fermina's feelings will be so repeated, I understand it as a beautiful vision of love as a teenager, without taking into account the poor Alyssa in reality, and when all the disasters encountered during the trip made her grow, love finally could not withstand the cruelty of reality, and she chose to let go rationally.
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Fermina married the nobleman Dr. Urbino
Once Fermina had a cold, in the city where cholera was endemic, the family thought she had cholera, the whole family wore a defensive mask, and the young and experienced Dr. Urbino passed a series of examinations, of course, as if he was not easily and substantially confused by Fermina's beauty, and touched Fermina's breast with his hand, perhaps this is a feeling that the girl has never felt before, with surprise and excitement in her dislike.
The conclusion was that the cold was not cholera, so the whole family was ecstatic, of course, Fermina's father saw the doctor's actions, and instead of resenting them, he took the initiative to match them together.
Pursued by the doctor's bold love letters, and when her cousin revealed her impulses to the doctor, Fermina obeyed her father's wishes and married the aristocratic doctor Dr. Urbino. In fact, Fermina was arrogant, and perhaps this arrogance deeply attracted the aristocratic doctors, and only then did they combine.
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Maintaining sexual purity, Alyssa, leaving sadly, began her rise
Heartbroken, Alyssa, seeing that the beloved girl was married, finally obeyed her uncle's arrangement and left the sad place, always maintaining the innocence of sex, but later experienced 622 women, the youngest only 14 years old girl became his lover, and later the girl unfortunately committed suicide.
Many people think Alyssa is a scumbag, but from the bottom of my heart, I still sympathize with him. At least after sleeping with so many women, he always maintained an innocent love for Fermina in his heart, which no one can replace, but he did not dare to face it bravely where he failed as a man, and the success of Dr. Urbino was brave and bold pursuit, just like his job, the postman is a public text, but he has to write a lyrical love poem, making people feel insecure.
-Conclusion-
Alyssa, who inherited the property, finally became a goddess that the nobles could look at with their hearts, Fermina, and waited until their ancient love, and finally the two were happy and loving when they traveled on the ship, and this love came too late, but fortunately it was obtained. Fearing for the damage to her reputation, Fermina told the captain that the yellow flag with cholera illness had been raised, and that the yellow flag of cholera could not dock, just as their birth would sail forever into the distance!