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100 Years of Solitude

 

            100 Years of Solitude Just as Edmund Spenser believes in "the ever-whirling .
             wheel of Change; that which all mortal things doth sway,"" so too does Gabriel .
             Garcí Márquez. In One Hundred Years of Solitude, Colonel Aureliano Buendí experiences life and the changes which accompany it. Spenser views .
             human life as a constant change from one stage to another. The change may .
             be either good or bad; but one thing is certain, change is inevitable. The .
             warfare is futile and has caused him to "rot alive."" Throughout Aureliano's .
             life, he undergoes a transformation from a lively leader to a corrupt cynic, and .
             ultimately dies a dispassionate loner. The civil war causes him to continually .
             alter his attitude on life. The views which he once had, slowly disappeared, just .
             as the hands of time turn into fading memories. While the spokes of .
             Aureliano's wheel are becoming loose going downhill on the road of life, the .
             wheel of change never ceases to stop rolling.
            


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