One Hundred Years Of Solitude

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Authors intentionally develop male and female literary characters within their writings to reflect the role of women and men in society. The novels, One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Women at Point Zero by Nawal El Saadawi display male and female literary characters. One Hundred Years of Solitude incorporates magical realism, through the novel it tells the story of the Buendia family generations beginning from the sixteenth century in Macondo. Garcia portrays a relationship with the characters husband, Jose Arcadio Buendia and wife, Ursula Iguaran. In the same way, Women at Point Zero is based on creative fiction about a woman that experiences a female circumcision and since the day she experienced circumcision her …show more content…
The two have their own way of expressing their feelings. For example, Jose Arcadio Buendia is energetic and later on in the story he transitions to a madman. In detail, Jose Arcadio Buendia has his break down. He destroys most stuff in the laboratory room, until he is finally tied down to a chestnut tree by twenty men. After he is tied down he is left there and can only do such amount. The story of Jose arcadio Buendia breakdown goes terribly wrong. As anticipated Ursula Iguaran cares for him and intends to help him. Regardless, her attempts to change Jose Arcadio Buendia does not work but keeps on trying. The scene implies the way woman in society actually act in response to change with their husband. In that case, showing that men change in society and women do too. Moreover, Garcia Marquez portray the death of Jose Arcadio Buendia and Ursula Iguaran becoming isolated from everything. Ursula Iguaran has to live on with it and later reminiscing everyone's death in the story transitioning her to sad. Again, a wife in society actually changes if she is left a widow. Therefore the reflection of these two literary characters express the roles in

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