In the remote town of Mocondo which Gabriel Garcia Marquez vividly depicts in his novel One Hundred Years of Solitude, the process of aging plays an important role in the development of the characters, their development and in the plot as whole. Throughout the aging process, some characters' desire for knowledge and/or wisdom remains immense: each seeking it in their own way. This sinful desire to know everything about everyone will progressively develop into a force that brings Mocondo to its demise. Not all characters are affected by aging, some die young and others are left unscathed by its eroding powers. In the bigger scope of thematic, age itself is insignificant without being accompanied by the passage of time. For the characters in Mocondo, time represents a rather mundane aspect of life. As the characters grow into their own personalities due to the effects of their surroundings, they alienate themselves both internally and externally from others and finally enter a state of "impenetrable solitude of decrepitude" (Marquez 197). This investigation will demonstrate the correlation between their internal and external solitude and their process of growing aging. Every so often Marquez gives the readers a glimpse into the thoughts of his characters to subtly show the effects that age had on them and the state of solitude they are trapped in. Significantly, Marquez equally uses an omniscient narrator to show dialogue, which is often pithy, terse, and humorous, and thoughts to demonstrate such a correlation.
[...] “seemed to occupy his own space, one of solitude and oblivion, protected from the vices of this quote fully encapsulates Jose Arcadio Buendia's presence in life and in the novel (12). Although other characters can shake his hand a feel flesh gripping theirs, and perhaps deem their lifestyles somewhat comparable, he simply is not there in the sense that he is so engrossed in his own world of science and discovery, which leads to further domestic solitude within the Buendia household. [...]
[...] The significance of age and aging in One Hundred Years of Solitude In the remote town of Mocondo which Gabriel Garcia Marquez vividly depicts in his novel One Hundred Years of Solitude, the process of aging plays an important role in the development of the characters, their development and in the plot as whole. Throughout the aging process, some characters' desire for knowledge and/or wisdom remains immense: each seeking it in their own way. This sinful desire to know everything about everyone will progressively develop into a force that brings Mocondo to its demise. [...]
[...] Actions also display this correlation, but in a more implicit and subtle way, often marked with dark humor and pithiness. For example, when Ursula loses her sight and no one notices indicates both that everyone is too busy with their everyday lives to notice and she is so used to her mundane activities that she was able to pretend as though she was able-eyed. In summarization, it has been demonstrated through two major characters in the novel One Hundred Years of Solitude the significant yet subtle effects of age and aging on the [...]
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