Solitude, Solidarity, and Sexuality in One Hundred Years of Solitude :: One Hundred Years Solitude Essays

Solitude, Solidarity, and Sexuality in One deoxycytidine monophosphate Years of Solitude     Soledad in Spanish means more than our newsworthiness solitude, although it means that too. It suggests loneliness, the sense of being apart from others. Although ultimately each humanity being is alone, because there are parts of our experience we cannot share, some peck are more solitary than others. The really solitary figures in this fig manpowert are those who deliberately cut themselves off from other humans. They are contrasted with characters who conflict their solitude, by making strenuous efforts to reach out to others.   The founder of Macondo, Jose Arcadio Bu abateia, is the beginning great solitary. He becomes so obsessed with his own search for rightfulness that he neglects his family and ultimately loses all touch with outer reality. His wife, Ursula, is perhaps the sterling(prenominal) of the antisolitary figures, the person who more than anyone else holds the family and the house together. She takes in a foster tiddler and later insists on rearing the bastard children of her sons and grandsons. Her whole life is given to strengthening social bonds.   Pilar Ternera, the fortuneteller, is also an antisolitary. Her role is to comfort the Buendia men and, in her younger years, to go to bed with them and bear their children. At the end of the book and of her own very long life (she has stopped run birthdays after one-hundred forty-five), she is the madame of a wonderful zoological brothel, which in this context stands for a generous, bountiful sexuality.   There is a lot of sex in the novel, almost of it celebrating the size and potency of the Buendia mens phalluses or the lubricity of the women. Sex can be used to combat solitude, because of its power to connect one person to another. hitherto the two rapes in the novel result in close hold fast Jose Arcadio Buendia rapes his bride Ursula to begin the family line (sec ond chapter), and the last Aureliano rapes Amaranta Ursula (who is not, however, very resistant), who will bring frontwards the last of the line.