why do you think love gets so easily 'passed around' in this book?
for example in chapter six, and slightly in five, everyone seems to either find love or lose love and get remarried. is it just the lifetstyle of macondo? or is it the way things operate outside of America? is Marquez trying to make a statement about human nature, or was it just coincidence?
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Marquez might be saying something about modern day marriages and how they never last. Just an idea. Or more of a guess.
ReplyDeleteI think that the love being passed around is pretty accurate for any culture. I think, because it is human nature, Marquez wrote it that way, whether or not he was trying to make a statement.
ReplyDeleteIf you think about it though, our culture is almost worse. Not only are divorce rates sky rocketing, but kids start having sex and hooking up younger and younger. People are falling in and out of love every day.
Pretty much, I don't think that love is regulated by country borders, so America, Macondo, or wherever you are, love is a crazy human thing that is rarely ever predictable.
Another argument could be that it isn't always true love that the characters are experiencing when they go through their various flings, just like in our lives when people have random flings that don't necessarily mean anything to them after the fact.
ReplyDeleteSome characters, however, particularly the men, seem to fall in love quite easily and intensely, which I have also noticed can happen in real life. It seems like men often fall rather suddenly and deeply in love, and girls are often more indecisive, as the women in One Hundred Years have proven to be. (Such as Amaranta, who refused to let Rebecca Mary Pietro Crespi, but once she can have him, she refuses him, and he was so utterly in love that he killed himself over it. This kind of thing seems to happen a lot in the novel, and a lot, less extremely however, in real life.)
I think one of the things that might make it seem like Macondo is unique in this, even though it is part of being human, is that the town is small, so everyone is always dating or falling in love with characters that others have loved or we have known for a while. Not many changes happen as far as who lives there, and if there is a change, the new people often are fallen in love with by various characters right away. So in our lives, since there is a way higher variety of interaction with a large number of people, it is more diluted, but still present.
ReplyDeleteI also think that besides a few characters, most of them were pretty constant in their loving, as far as who they ultimately fell in love with. It seems like once they fell in love, it was an obsession and they couldn't rest until they had the other person, and if they couldn't, they'd kill themselves.
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