100 Years of Solitude

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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
García Márquez. In One Hundred Years of Solitude, Colonel Aureliano Buendía 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....