Abstract
<i>One Hundred Years of Solitude</i> is a masterpiece of Gabriel García Márquez, which tells the history of the Buendía family. There are all together eleven female images in this novel, all of whom play important roles in the rise and decline of this great family. This paper tries to interpret three representative female images in this novel who have decisive impacts on the destiny of this family, namely Úrsula Iguarán, Fernanda, and Amaranta Úrsula. Úrsula Iguarán is an image eliminating gender binary opposition, and Fernanda is an image that has no say in a patriarchal society, while Amaranta Úrsula represents the awakening of self-awareness of females who decide to fight against patriarchy. These three females represent different stages of social development, and show that only when females become confident and independent, awaken their self-awareness, and dare to fight against patriarchal oppression, can their subjectivity be fully achieved. Their destiny also reflects García Márquez’s confusion about women’s position in a patriarchal society, that is, although he calls for gender equality, men still have the dominant power.
Highlights
Diligent, energetic, strong-willed, and would never give up even in adversity. She had many children and was regarded as the supreme queen of the whole family. She is the prototype of Úrsula Iguarán in One Hundred Years of Solitude
Works written by Mo Yan, a Nobel Prize winner in literature as well, are often chosen by some Chinese scholars to compare with One Hundred Years of Solitude
The author finds that many scholars pay attention to magic realism in this novel and its theme and writing skills, but quite a few study female images in it
Summary
Gabriel García Márquez was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, journalist and screenwriter. Regarded as one of the most outstanding writers in the 20th century, Márquez started as a journalist, and wrote many acclaimed non-fiction works and short stories, but he is best known for his novels. His works have achieved widespread commercial success and reputed for popularizing a literary style labeled as magic realism. It is One Hundred Years of Solitude that won Márquez the Nobel Prize for Literature This piece of work is considered as a masterpiece which shows a panorama of Latin American history and society. The narrative seemingly confirms fatalism in order to illustrate the feeling of entrapment that ideology can performatively create.”
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