solitude in 100 hundred years of solitude
In the novel, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Macondo is a city isolated and alienated from the outside world. ... The Buendias are a race condemned to solitude. This novel is a comment on the nature of man, that solitude can be destructive both to individuals and to society at large. The novel displays solitude through love, power, grief, and death, and associates them with different characters. The author, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, intends for the theme of solitude to be subjectively interpreted in a multitude of ways individually by one of the main characters in the novel, Colonel Aureliano Buendia. ... Aureliano had premonitions until his death; this was one of the reasons for his solitude.