Thursday, December 4, 2008
AHHH I'm Seeing DOUBLE!
Throughout the One Hundred Years of Solitude, the readers have seen a lot of repeating and doubling. When Marquez creates the Segundo twins, he created second forms of their relatives with surprisingly similar names, their grandfather Jose Arcadio Buendia and their great uncle Colonel Aureliano Buendia. Just like his grandfather, Jose Arcadio Segundo leaves Macondo in fear. Jose Arcadio left Macondo scared because he had impregnated Pilar and had fallen in love with a gypsy. Jose Arcadio Segundo, like his grandfather, was left Macondo because of a sexual association that he had, scared him. The only difference was the JAS was worried about an STD he had contracted from a donkey. Also they both had a very disturbing first sexual experience. Aureliano Segundo (AS) was similar to his great uncle Colonel Aureliano Buendia (CAB) in that they were both more traditional kids. CAB, as a young adult, was a little more tame and worked hard with silver in the workshop. AS falls in love with the woman that both Segundo brothers are having affairs with. He stays with her, and they as a couple become successful. Before the war, CAB was a leading a promising life with his new wife. I can only guess that both of these twins are in for an interesting life that will probably end in similar ways as their respective doubles.
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Once again, I agree with you Lyndon. I think the reason why GGM repeats the characters and events is to show a cycle. I think the cycles show that generations have a tendency to repeat the same mistakes. I think also the phrase "history repeats itself" is valid in this book. It's just an endless cycle. And I think that that phrase could also be tied together with memory. Does history repeat itself because people remember the events told to them? If not, what makes people repeat the same events if they have no recollection of being told of the same events? Are certain characteristics or tendency to do certain things a thing that "runs in people's blood" so to speak? These questions obviously don't have a concrete answer, but interesting questions because they are abstract.
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