Magic Realism in One Hundred Years of Solitude

Magic Realism in One Hundred geezerhood of SolitudeMagic Realism is a term found by art historian Franz Roh in 1925, to place a visual arts movement emerging through with(predicate)out Europe. It is cognise that a large number of critical terms in literature are borrowed from painting. Magic Realism is whizz of those terms. The usage of that technique leads the reference make the themes and subjects are more imaginary, outlandish and with a fantastic imagine identical quality.Gabriel Garcia Marquez, who is the author of One Hundred Years of Solitude, does not like to be considered a writer of Magic Realism, even it is clear to follow out Magic Realism technique in his novel, he claims only to be realist without much exaggeration in his work. He states, As the final perspicaciousness runs, the source of all creation is reality. In One Hundred Years of Solitude for example, the banana comp some(prenominal) treats its workers so badly that they all go on strike. They gathered in the main square of the t cause, where the government has them circumference by soldiers armed with machine guns. When the crowed refuses to disperse, the order is given to open fire, and collar thousand people are killed. Their corpses are, then, put into the trains and sent off to the sea, and the consentient incident is officially denied to the point that Jose Arcadio Segundo finds it impossible to persuade anyone that it has taken place. For a European observer, the ability of a government to hide such incidents is thusly unbelievable. However, in Latin America, as well in the most of the three being countries, the situation is still worse than can be imagined.To the shopping centre of European and North American common sense, the career of the Central roughage in One Hundred Years of Solitude Colonel Aureliano clearly belongs to the ground of magic and fantasy and not of reality. For, in the course of his career he, organized thirty two armed uprisings and he lost them all, he had 17 male children by seventeen different women and they were exterminated one by and by the other in a single night he survived cardinal attempts on his life, seventy three ambushes and a firing squad. He lived through a doze of strychnine in his coffee that was enough to kill a horse. He refused the Order of Merit He rose to be the commandant in chief of the r exploitationary forces with jurisdiction and command from one adjoin to the other and the man most feared by the government Although he invariably fought at the head of his men, the only wound that he received was the one he gave himself. He shot himself in the chest with a side arm and the bullet came out through his back with out damaging any vital organ. (Mrquez, 2003)Early in the novel, a mysterious girls arrives who either cannot or will not speak and whom they call Rebecca. She brings with her the sickness of insomnia of which the most awful part, as an Indian woman explains, was not the im suppos ition of sleeping, for the body did not feel any fatigue at all, exclusively its inexorable evolution towards a more critical manifestation a loss of memory. Melquiades, a man of letters discovered its remedy but before him, Jose Arcadia has already invented a memory machine in which he has recorded roughly fourteen thousand entries. World, in this way, becomes a slave of dictionary as it refuses all possibility of change by overcoming the loss of memory.It is not exhausting to count a number of reasons for these apparently incredible details, which Gabriel Garcia Marquez provides in his work, but the most convincing one is, perhaps the obvious mundane drive of enabling him to avoid censorship.Marquez technique has overly been described as a kind of narrative hyperbole which seeks to expand the sensibility with which we perceive the world we live in. In One Hundred Years of Solitude, Marquezs characters are a lot endowed with a kind of supernatural great indicant. Aureliano can see the future. Remedios The looker is taken up into the clouds as a divine being. Melquiades survives death, and stays on earth as a ghost. Ursula chooses not to die and lives for over a hundred years. In One Hundred Years ofnSolitude, if the resolution is watertight enough, nothing can overpower it. It is perfectly possible for people to check power over even death. The characters struggle to effect and define their own worlds, their fight is against time, history and fate. It could be said that Marquez endowment of his characters with special power is an illustration of our powerlessness against forces which remain outside our control. By crossing the border of normal possibility, Marquez reminds us of the limitations of our own real lives, but also of the possibility of viewing the world in an entirely different way. Marquezs characters struggle to control, and to create their own world. It is through this act of creation that we can truly outpouring the forces in life over which we have no control. Marquez suggests that literature is the heart and soul by which we can gain understanding of a world-view different from our own, and and then an understanding of our common humanity. While politics and ideology have the power to de-humanise, literature has the power to remind us of our humanity. Through imagination, and art, we can be elevated from the restrictions we face in day to day life, and we can also be enlightened as to the true potential of our lives, and our own someone power to create and shape our own destinies.BibliographyMrquez, G. G. (2003). PURPLE opus Liberal Paradise . Retrieved from Daily Times http//www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_3-12-2003_pg3_7