Multiple Themes of One Hundred Years of Solitude :: One Hundred Years of Solitude

Multiple Themes of One Hundred Years of Solitude How the theme of the novel is developed and enhanced by plot, character and setting. This novel seems to sire multiple themes. One important theme is that every action causes a reaction, and one persons doing can result in something unpredicted. Similarly, it also seems to recite that fate is bound to happen, no matter what is done to try to change it. In this novel, when Jose Arcadio Buendia marries his cousin Ursula, they are cursed to have a child with the mark of a pig. I believe that this is just a way of saying that they are destined for downfall and failure. They are afraid and tired of people speak and pointing, so after Jose kills a townsman, they decide to retreat into the jungles of South America. With the help of other(a) settlers, they found their own little town, named Macondo, in hope of escaping the wrath of fate. Their family lives finished one hundred years in this manner, before their destiny is fulfille d. This novel is about how a family is able to survive, for a time, in solitude. So, it is appropriate that the setting is a newly settled village, which is deep in the jungle, away from the world that has condemned them. One Hundred Years of Solitude is an almost magical story where the past, present and emerging seem to merge into one. It tells the story of a family, rather than an individual, and how two peoples mistake results in their descendants downfall. If the setting was in an urban environment, the story would have made no sense, or at least lost a bit of its effect. Instead, these people start from scratch and build up their own civilization. Over the course of a century, civil wars occur, along with tragedies, angels appearing, and family members losing their sanity. The novel is written in decades, with each one exploring a main character and with the other characters lives, the book tangles itself up, until everything blends together, to return to the books beginn ing, as Macondo continues towards its inevitable self-destruction.