The names in One Hundred Years of Solitude with Allen
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One Hundred Years of SolitudeThe names in Buendia’s family obviously show that all girls names are Ursula, Amaranta and Remedios, which reveals a huge combination and delivery of characters’ disposition. In the contests, Ursula, who nearly lives through whole story, represents a creator with the wise of women who impenitently protects his husband and children, constantly supports the tradition of the family and undoubtedly believes with superstition. There is no doubt that Jose Arcadio Buendia can’t be successful without her, Colonel Aureliano Buendia can’t survive in the jail without her and the family can’t last 7 generation without her. Ursula, that the name almost explained all the positive disposition of woman remained a eternity until the born of Amaranta Ursula who is the fifth generation and who also directly cause the extinction of the family. I cannot help but notice the name of Amaranta, the second generation, the daughter of Ursula. Amaranta, a isolated character in the Buendia’s family, is brutal and mean while she refused the marriage of Rebeca and stole Pietro Crespi with hatred and jealous, even making shroud for Rebeca when she was very old. It’s imperious to reason that she is still a virgin when dies with pain and fear, for she insists not to marry with Pietro Crespi who was fall in love with her but suicide painfully because of the refuse and Colonel Gerineldo Márquez who was truly loved by Amaranta but also refused by her about marriage. Amaranta’s mind of insistence was derived from an ancient fear which terrified her everyday, although it’s unbelievable for us to understand such behavior which won’t happen in our life, but it reveals the purpose of author about mettle, when people can’t insist our decision in such a complex society but finally follow other universal idea. However, the author used the name of Amaranta Ursula to repeat the success of 2 woman, exhibiting a feeling with Amaranta because of nearly the same story of incest, when Amaranta’s nephew Aureliano Jose loved her for a long time but finally died with her refuse in the army, as the same as Amaratan Ursula’s nephew Aureliano fall in love with her but the author used a stronger feeling that they produce Aureliano who eventfully was ate by ants and caused the death of family. The reappearance of scene also appears with Remedios Moscote, who suddenly dies probably because of mismarriage
and Renata Remedios, who has missex that opposed by family with Mauricio Babilonia: Renata Remedios characterize distinguished attitude of sexuality, as she imperiously made love with Mauricio Babilonia, even inducing yellow butterfly.
The author just named subsequent generations with ancestors names to expose all the human dispositions with hyperbole. As for male members, they are all called Arcadio, the ancestor of Buendia, who is described as a superficial ancestor with greed of money as for alchemy, violence as he was interested with weapons, superstition of gypsy and scientific desire about 地圆说 and Aureliano, the son of ancestor. All the human nature was exaggerated by the springs and the strongest temperament is violence of Arcadio and solitary of Aureliano. Jose Arcadio, stand for violence and luxurious sexuality, a mighty man, son of Jose Arcadio Buendia, married Rebeca with threatening Pietro Crespi robustly, but had sex with Pilar Ternera and produced Arcadio: Jose Arcadio went away with gypsy when he was young but he comes back with strong body, arms and amulets. And his son Arcadio is a hyperbole character of conquest and economic, who is initially the schoolmaster, then the army leader, finally was killed in chaos and he constructed company with ice and bought houses. Arcadio’s son, one of twins, Jose Arcadio Segundo, was immense and boisterous and indulged in great sexuality with Petra Cotes and in in Melquíades’ old study with nearly seclusion which reveals the human desire of mystery and superstition. As quite same as the fifth generation Jose Arcadio was bored to study in seminary and chased for the spirit of religion with the dependency. And for Aureliano, Colonel Aureliano Buendia, son of Jose Arcadio Buendia, held fantastic perceive in childhood and was solitary until his death and unduly sexuality with Pilar Ternera, who was also studied as a character of solitude by his grandson Aureliano Segundo who also indulged in Petra Cotes’ love although he has already married. The forth Aureliano, Aureliano Babilonia, may inherit Mauricio Bbilonia with great desire of knowledge and became a scholar who finally decipher the mystery of Melquíades and preceded the extinction of Buendia.
García Márquez only repeated to use the names to deliver the circle and reappearance of human beings’ scene,making a situation that you feel the previous characters when read their names repeated on the subsequent characters. In this way, he exposed magic realism to a summit. In such a circle, the family of Buendia underwent one hundred years and eventfully went to death, on the other hand, the born of Aureliano also exhibits the circle of life and solitude. He was one of those great Buendias, strong and willful like the Jose Arcadios, with the open and clairvoyant eyes of the Aurelianos, ......for he was the only one in a century who had been engendered with love. Unlike other human, all family members exposed their own feelings to resist the solitude, but sometimes they rolled theirselves into the solitude and never had chance to escape. the circle is already dead about Buendia, but the outsiders are thrown into predicament when straining efforts to regret such feeling as they considered the fate of human beings with starting and end, they are confused who they are when the generations grows and technology developed. And finally we figured out that the author depicted once human beings knows who they are they have already gone to death, like Aureliano Babilonia finally figured out that prodigious instant Melquiades’ final keys, he paralyzed with horror and watched the death of Buendia.