" Races condemned to 100 years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth." These powerful last words of the novel One Hundred Years of Solitude speak truth. ... Many times it seems to be the intent of the character, or the final goal for them to be alone; as shown by Erendira flight away from her encampment after her grandmother"s death. ... In Spanish-speaking countries, it is not uncommon to find many generations of the same family living in one house. ... Garcia Marquez illustrates that point in every aspect of One Hundred Years of Solitude, letting the reader walk away...

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The novel, "One Hundred Years of Solitude," deals with the story of the Buendia family. ... Events of several hundred years show the evolution of Macondo; from the years 1850 to 1950. ... He becomes lost in solitude. ... In this way different things coexist at one time. ... He becomes lost in solitude. ...

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In the novel, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez used the motif of biblical references in order to outline the main theme of solitude in the novel. The characters Jose Arcadio Buendia, Ursula Iguaran, and Melquiades all had been symbolized by some kind of biblical character. ... Adam was the one who had tried to do what's right and had stronger qualities such as character. ... She was the one who had to take charge and run everything after Jose's downfall. Ursula's downfall, though, was the fact that it took her so many years to realize what was going on and n...

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Those in exile near one hundred and twenty thousand."2 These problems are common throughout Latin America, a factor in creating a sense of unity because of these common concerns. ... These themes are seen in Mario Vargas Llosa's "The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta" and Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "One Hundred Years of Solitude." ... In "One Hundred Years of Solitude," the capitalistic imperialists take the role of the villain and the workers are the innocent victims. ... 9 Like "One Hundred Years of Solitude," the revolutionaries fight for a better life, described in a daydream of M...

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In Ibsen's A Doll House and Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude, the respective authors indirectly characterize the females as stable and independent by contrasting them against the compulsive and solitary males. ... Colonel Aureliano Buendia and Don Apolinar Moscote are prime examples of physical and governmental dominance in One Hundred Years of Solitude, while Torvald Helmer is the character chosen by Ibsen to display the economic aspect of power associated with masculinity. ... His entire existence is summarized on page 113 of One Hundred Years Of Solitude where Marquez st...

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude takes place in a Latin American setting. ... Petra Cotes, the young woman in the selection from One Hundred Years Of Solitude, intrudes in the narrative and distracts the Segundo twins from their normal daily activities in the isolated village of Macondo. ... This is quite similar to the overall narrative of One Hundred Years of Solitude which is being read out of Melquiades' history book by the last of the Buendia family. ... In One Hundred Years of Solitude Petra Cotes is unaware that she is being violated, whereas Juliana, in ...

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The boss of the farm implies when he first meets them: " Well, I never seen one guy take so much trouble for another guy. ... He declared, "The great man is who in the midist of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.... The word solitude means the state of being or living alone in the dictionary, but these great peoples are not physically living by themselves in Emerson's case. ... After two hundreds year since Emerson published the Self Reliance document, the westerners fully understand his encouragements and put the ideas into practice. While Jo...

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This book is about a tyrant who leaves 232 years. ... Thereafter the Patriarch celebrates his hundred year in power. This event makes the character realize the state of solitude that he has after the death of his so-called family. This feeling of solitude force him to lie goes off of all the strings that keep this country together. ... At last he died in the solitude and with faded power. ...

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Oscar was a cotton grower, and he and Kate spent the first 9 years of their marriage living and working on his cotton farm. ... He was later to become the model for the character Dr. ... During that period she wrote over one hundred and fifty poems, essays, short stories and novels (Toth 245-255). ... Kate withdrew from society and very rarely ever went out of her house, spending the last five years of her life in relative solitude (Toth 244). ... Kate's many short stories about the Creole way of life and all its colorful characters, is studied extensively in literature classes all over t...

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Religion in A Farewell to Arms For hundreds of years, writers have used religion as a principle issue and point of discussion in their novels. Nathaniel Hawthorne expressed his views in The Scarlet Letter, Garcia Marquez did the same in One Hundred Years of Solitude, and Ernest Hemingway used his writing to develop his own ideas concerning the church. ... Even in a book in which the large majority of the characters profess their atheism, the ideas of the church materialize repeatedly as both characters and as topics of conversations. ... For one, they question his intelligence, with one so...

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A Character Analysis of Hester Prynne in The Scarlet Letter Abstract Hester Prynne is the main protagonist and the most complicated character in The Scarlet Letter. ... Due to impulse and solitude, Hester committed adultery, which shooked the puritans of Boston. ... The character analysis in The Scarlet Letter is quite successful that by analyzing, Hester, one of the main character, in the cline of plots, this paper concludes that the formation and transformation of Hester's character is a long and complicated process, it's the final result of the joint influences of history, se...

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How do these characters differ from one another, and more importantly who does Twain want us to prefer? ... Tom is a "sivilized" person who has read many books and attended school for years. ... He also tells his friends that "he had got secret news by his spies that the next day a whole parcel of Spanish merchants and rich A-rabs was going to camp in Cave Hollow with two hundred elephants, and six hundred camels, and over a thousand "sumter" mules, all loaded down with di"monds"(15) but it is only school children. ... The irony in this is that Huck is the one actually living the gre...

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Ö While only a hundred years had passed between this writing and the death of William Shakespeare, the idea is very similar to the question of true authorship to the Bard's plays. ... The Houyhnhnms are the most likeable characters within Gulliver's travels. ... Ö How fitting that Swift chose to make the ideal human characters horses. ... Ö Alexander Pope was a friend with Swift; one can see this easily with the similar ideals between the two men. ... I think that the author is trying to express to the reader that a person is a perfect organism in s...

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Almost one hundred and fifty years since it was first published, Herman Melville's "Bartleby the Scrivener"" remains one of the most elusive short stories in all of American literature. ... Perhaps to understand the story one must first accept that there is no single meaning to the character of Bartleby. ... Why did Melville create this inscrutable character? ... Bartleby functions in the story not as a character but as a symbol. ... The lawyer himself reacts with growing horror and confusion as the seriousness of the problem becomes clear, especially when considering Bartleby's to...

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One of the most influential pieces of literature that Ralph Waldo Emerson composed is Nature. ... As a self-reliant individual in 1845, Thoreau decided to conduct an experiment on Emerson's land at Walden Pond by building himself a cabin and living in simplicity and seclusion for two years (Baym 963). ... He encourages his readers to deviate from the magnetic field of society constraining them, and instead to pursue simplistic solitude and communion with nature. ... Because he had not paid a poll-tax in six years in protest of slavery and the Mexican War, Thoreau was imprisoned for one ni...

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For years, England had imposed act after act upon the American public. ... For years black Americans tolerated their status in American society, but with their insurrection came an end to slavery and oppression. ... The granting of true civil and voting rights to blacks came as the culmination of a series of social and political events that occurred over the course of many years. ... One morning however, his uncle failed to return from his saloon, and Wright later discovered his uncle had been murdered by the white men that had envied his success. This hostility was not uncommon among blac...

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It is believed that the actual story of Beowulf took place two hundred years before it was permanently copied on to paper, and the author us unknown. ... In the story characters are defined through their status, in addition, an element of honor is recognized in the Anglo-Saxon culture. ... "Grendel is known as a monster and portrays one of the many villains in the poem" (Beowulf), he is a physical monster; an ogre who is hostile to humanity. ... She snatched one of the thanes and scurried back to the mear, she like Grendel murders innocent people. ... The battle with the Dragon takes...

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Cooper's wife Susan bet Cooper that he could write a better book then the one she was reading. ... In a sense they are right and no one would recommend it to the general reader."... The gothic episodes clash with the historical ones. The Last of the Mohicans was one of his most acknowledged masterpieces. ... One of Coopers major criticizing peers was Mark Twain. ...

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The author Doris Lessing, uses the protagonist's extra sensitivity and perception as a handicap in a society organized as ours is; one that favors conformity, the average, the obedient, however restricting his character, personality and actual self, therefore creating the conflict between achieving the standards and normalities determined by society or maintaining the individuality of one's true self while deviating from the expected; ultimately calling to question personality itself. ... "Hovering over these brisk waves, a couple of hundred yards away, was a shining disk we felt ...

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" The Hungry Tide is set in the Sundarbans, an archipelago of hundreds of scattered islands, some densely populated while others completely uninhabited, at the mohona of several rivers in the Bay of Bengal. ... For hundreds of years, only the truly dispossessed braved the man-eating tigers, snakes and the crocodiles who rule these fragmented islands. ... The narrative space is taken up by them and a handful of other characters, each on a personal quest through life. ... Kanai's narrative brings to life the character of his uncle, Nirmal Bose, who is dead before the story begins. ...

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In this witty fantasy, Virginia Woolf creates the unforgettable character, Orlando, who is first masculine, then feminine, and whose life spans three centuries. ... She discharges her duty as a woman, marries one Marmaduke Bonthrop Shelmerdine, and bears a son in the Edwardian age. ... (P5) In Orlando, she further gives her explanation of androgyny: "In each of us two powers preside, one male, one female; and in the man's brain, the man predominates over the woman, and in the woman's brain, the woman predominates over the man."... Also Orlando does not show strong longing for fame ...

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By being the son of a mother who has worked years upon years in the airline industry as a ticket agent, I have experienced a spectrum of both fortunes and misfortunes in my nineteen years of flying. ... Centered in the Detroit Metropolitan Airport was a cocktail of sceneries which defined much of my childhood and adolescent years. ... I was not the only one who felt this way. ... Even five years after the September 11th attacks, one in four Americans refused to travel by air and one in five felt unsafe being in events which held groups of people with considerable size (Roberts). ... The runwa...

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The Tokugawa Empire, which began in the seventeenth century, lasted for two hundred and fifty years in Japan and saved Japan from a country headed towards an anarchical state and turned into a success story by the great leader Tokugawa Ieyasu. ... However this outcome was a gradual one which emerged from the social and economic changes occurring at the time, which were the product of the rule of Tokugawa Ieyasu. ... Not only did Japan end up losing the war, but China ended up gaining a sphere of influence in Korea, which would be a cause of turmoil in later years. ... He allowed only particu...

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