About One Hundred Years of Solitude

By describing the rise and fall of seven generations of Buendia family and the small town of Macondo, One Hundred Years of Solitude comprehensively and profoundly reflects the historical evolution and real life of Colombia and even Latin America, reveals the deep cultural and psychological characteristics of the Latin American nation, points out the serious harm caused by loneliness and backwardness, and expresses the author's deep thinking and warm concern for the fate of the Latin American nation. The content of One Hundred Years of Solitude is extremely rich, complex and profound, which has high ideological and cognitive value. Mainly manifested in two aspects: First, the century-old vicissitudes of Macondo Town in One Hundred Years of Solitude, from construction, development, prosperity to extinction, alluded to and concentrated the history of Colombia from the beginning of 19 century to the first half of the 20th century. The beginning of the novel is the beginning of19th century, but Macondo is like a prehistoric society, simple and quiet. This is a small village with only 20 families. It is very convenient for people to get water from houses built of mud and reeds by the river. The river is clear and bright, and the current is fast. You can see the smooth pebbles on the river bed. "The world, everything has just begun. Many things have no names yet. You must point with your fingers." Here, Marquez specifically quoted the words in the Bible, "You must point to it." , said Macondo was such an isolated paradise. This is a portrayal of indigenous life in Colombia before16th century. Then Spanish colonists invaded and conquered Latin America with arrows, fire and crosses, and then a large number of immigrants poured into this continent. Colombia has undergone profound changes in social structure, ideology, beliefs, customs and habits, forming the first major turning point in Colombian history. In the novel, the gypsies brought magnets, binoculars and other things like magic and acrobatics to attract the whole village to watch, and Ursula found a passage with the outside world to attract the first immigrants, which is the reappearance of this historical fact.

/kloc-After Colombia's independence in the early 20th century, the state power was dominated by white landlords and businessmen. Among them, the Liberal Party and the Conservative Party are constantly fighting a long-term civil war. Politicians abuse their power, practice favoritism, manipulate elections and trample on the Constitution, which leads to frequent coups and civil wars. From 1830 to 1899, 27 civil wars broke out all over the country, which brought endless suffering to the people. The novel describes Macondo in a large space and is also involved in this struggle. This historical fact is revealed through the legendary career of Colonel Aureliano Buendia. As an anti-corruption conservative government, the colonel launched 32 armed uprisings and fought a civil war for 20 years. These descriptions vividly summarize the social life during the second major turning point in Colombian history.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the civil war in Colombia stopped and the economy recovered, but the American neo-colonial forces that were close at hand flooded into Colombia again. Trains, electric lights, telephones, movies, phonographs and so on appeared in Macondo. The novel describes how many people welcome new things: "Many people are very angry with the active characters in the movie, because they shed painful tears for a dead and buried person in the movie, but in the next movie he becomes an Arab. Many Jean Macoun people couldn't stand this mockery of their feelings and smashed the seats in the cinema. Finally, the mayor explained that the film is a machine that creates illusion, and the audience need not be so emotional. Jean Makun Many people finally realized that they were fooled by the new gypsies and decided not to watch movies anymore. " These new gadgets made them stunned and dazzled. Soon, Americans established many banana plantations, and all kinds of people poured into Macondo. They stole the show and controlled the most important change in Macondo's history. On the surface, this change seems to bring prosperity to Macondo, but in essence it is the beginning of more cruel exploitation and plunder by foreign capitalists. In addition, in order to safeguard vested interests, the imperialists suppressed the people's resistance with cruel violence. In the banana workers' strike movement, the government and imperialism "ordered the army to kill them with bullets" and "machine guns strafed the masses from two aspects". Jose Aquadior second fell to the ground, his face covered with blood. When he woke up, he found himself lying on a train car full of dead bodies. He climbed from one carriage to another, and by the dim light, he saw dead men, women and children: they were thrown into the sea like discarded bananas ... this is the longest train he has ever seen-there are almost 200 freight cars. In this way, the novel angrily exposes the great disaster brought to Colombia by the invasion of imperialism and neo-colonialism. This is also one of the important reasons for poverty and backwardness in Latin America.