One Hundred Years of Solitude

"…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 ring true. The book demonstrates through many examples that human beings cannot exist in isolation. People must be interdependent in order for the race to survive. Solitude. Examples are found of this idea throughout the one-hundred-year life of Macondo and the Buendia family. It is both an emotional and …

…seclude herself romantically. Though men proposed, she refused, and she remained alone until the day she died. Solitude, whether it be perceived or real, individual or collective, physical or emotional, condemns a race to self-destruction. Garcia Marquez illustrates that point in every aspect of One Hundred Years of Solitude, letting the reader walk away with the realization that all acts society, such as sex, love, and dependence are essential for the survival of any species.