Known as "a masterpiece among outstanding works", "One Hundred Years of Solitude" has influenced the creation of many Chinese writers, including Mo Yan, Chen Zhongzhong, Yu Hua, Su Tong, Han Shaogong, etc.
In One Hundred Years of Solitude, generations of male members of the Buendía family have gathered the various qualities of human men: fighting against the harsh natural environment, bravely creating the world, advocating violence, taking power, strong intellectual curiosity and resistance, indulging physical desires, and so on.
The female members are a combination of characteristics including arrogance, enthusiasm, innocence and kindness, diligence, meticulousness, stubbornness, and assertiveness.
But the common denominator of this family is that there is a lingering "loneliness" in everyone. Among them, the loneliness of no one understands, the loneliness of love, and the loneliness of power are the most obvious.
Loneliness that no one understands.
Zhou Guoping said: "The more abundant the soul, the more keenly aware of the incompleteness and the stronger the sense of loneliness. ”
In the journey of life, we will encounter different circumstances and pursue different goals and achievements.
But sometimes, it is precisely because of the pursuit of truth, goodness, and beauty, and the reflection on the meaning of life, that we often feel that there is an insurmountable gap between us and others, and we find ourselves in a state of incompatibility with the world around us.
In One Hundred Years of Solitude, José Alcatio Buendía leads twenty families to the closed city of Macondo. He longs for a better life, and even thinks in his dream that everyone will live in the "mirror house" and no longer suffer from the heat.
To this end, he excavated riverbeds, conducted selfless scientific experiments, and was fascinated by the fact that the earth was round, and told people that it was possible to return to the starting point if they kept sailing east.
But no one understands his theories, and the villagers agree that he has lost his mind, and it is not until Melgiades arrives that the truth is clarified.
He regarded Melgiades as a bosom friend, but Melgiades died.
He wanted to lead people to a better and more civilized place, but he was met with collective resistance.
He fell into a deep loneliness, almost depressed, and spent the night lying in bed with his eyes open, calling out to Melgiades, hoping that the dead would share his worries.
The Buendía family's *** Arcatio second, worked as an overseer in a banana company owned by foreigners, in order to fight for profits, led the workers to strike, 3,000 workers were shot dead, he himself was shot unconscious, and the bodies of the workers were loaded onto the train and transported to the seaside, and he woke up halfway and jumped out of the train successfully.
But the crackers sealed the news, saying that the workers had been transferred to other jobs.
Only Arcatio knew what was going on, and he went around telling the truth, but he was treated as delirious.
He locked himself in his house and studied the parchment manuscripts of the Gypsies in solitude, and his last words before his death were, "Remember that three thousand men were thrown into the sea."
The loneliness that no one understands, like an island that no one cares about, often makes people feel helpless and lost.
Different people take different approaches to escaping loneliness, and the two generations in the book take a different approach to isolation, but still want to be supported from the outside world. José Alcatio Buendía lives by recalling the understanding of his best friend, and Alcatio is second to death in pursuit of outside recognition.
Loneliness that no one understands is a challenge, but it's also an opportunity to grow.
If you can use this opportunity to explore your inner world, find inner peace and self-satisfaction, then it will enable you to find self-identity and self-worth, learn to think independently, make independent decisions, and develop inner tenacity and courage.
The loneliness of love.
Haruki Murakami said, "There will be people who like to be lonely, but they don't like to be disappointed. ”
In One Hundred Years of Solitude, Amaranta falls in love with Pietro, but later discovers that her sister Rebecca has been quietly with Pietro, and she is in great pain and tries to prevent them from getting married in any way.
As Amaranta had hoped, either Pietro received a letter that his mother was critically ill, or the new church would not be completed until three years later, or the virtuous and gentle sister-in-law would not be allowed to marry for a year after ......her deathThe wedding date was postponed again and again, and the relationship between Rebecca and Pietro seemed to stand still forever.
It wasn't until José Arcatio suddenly appeared that Rebecca married him in a flash.
Pietro, who was struggling with pain, still came to their house every Tuesday, and found that Amaranta, despite her lack of charm, was empathetic and gentle.
Gradually, Pietro fell in love with Amaranta.
Every evening, they were together, men and women weaving, and it seemed that everything was quiet.
But when Pietro proposed again and again, Amaranta told him with great calm and determination that she would never marry him until she died.
No matter how much Pietro groveled and grinded, it was to no avail, and in hopeless grief, he slit his wrists and died.
Amaranda scorched one of her hands to express bitter remorse.
A few years later, Herineldo was already the military and political chief of Macondo, and he had been in love with Amaranda since he was a child, and now when he expressed his love for her, Amaranta's heart rekindled a forgotten youthful passion.
But when Herinelledo repeatedly asked to marry, Amaranda endured her grief and told him that she would not marry anyone.
Mother Ursula was terrified of Amaranta's hard-hearted heart and distressed by her bitter pain.
It is believed that Amaranta was motivated by revenge against Pietro and bitter resentment towards Herinelledo. It wasn't until years later that Mother realized what fear and ambivalence Amaranda had hidden beneath her lonely exterior.
Amaranda fears that she will be stuck in the quagmire of loneliness, but she longs to maintain the pride of loneliness.
Her time alone allows her to think deeply, to feel the beauty of all things, and to experience the tenderness of her heart. Instead of being cold and ruthless, she expresses her emotions in a unique way, raising her nephew, opening a kindergarten, etc.
Zhou Guoping said: "Loneliness is a state of mind, and one of the consequences of marriage is to pose a threat to solitude and lose a lonely state of mind. ”
Amaranta's love of loneliness is not out of love, but out of fear of disappointment, and she fears betrayal.
Marriage is a threat to her and can deprive her of the freedom and solitude she cherishes. Therefore, she chose solitude and chose to maintain her inner freedom and independence.
In fact, loneliness is not completely mutually exclusive with marriage, but can coexist in harmony. If both partners understand the need for solitude and make appropriate arrangements, the threat to solitude can be minimized in marriage.
Moreover, marriage does not necessarily lead to disappointment, but rather a way to share your inner world with others, a courage to grow with others and face life.
The loneliness of power.
As the war progressed, Aureliano, the second son of the Buendía family, became the supreme colonel of the liberals.
At the beginning of the war, good friends and good comrades-in-arms were able to hear Aureliano's family-like tone from one end of the line, but with the absolutization of the colonel's power, his voice and tone of voice became indistinct, and his comrades could only answer "yes" with absolute obedience.
For safety, Colonel Aureliano would ask the adjutant to draw a three-meter circle no matter where he went, and no one was allowed to enter the circle, including when he returned home, including his mother and sister.
Gradually, he felt that he had fought with the conservatives for so long, and in the end he had become like them.
The emptiness of power and the absurdity of the war made him feel extremely lonely, and he took great pains to end the war, and he shrunk himself into a small workshop and spent his days refining small goldfish until the end of his life.
All the splendor that has ever been in life needs to be repaid with loneliness after all.
Power can control everything, but absolute power means absolute loneliness.
Because when a person has power, the kind praise of others will also be understood by him as a request for him, and power makes his heart less trust in the people around him.
And trust is the foundation of a good relationship.
The loneliness of power will eventually lead the soul to hell.
Write at the end.
One Hundred Years of Solitude says: "The secret of a happy old age is to sign a dignified agreement with loneliness." ”
In fact, not to mention in old age, some people may have been diligently pursuing beautiful flowers all their lives, and they have used their own ways to dispel loneliness, but they have fallen into another loneliness after every effort.
Everyone has lonely times, and they may encounter loss in the workplace, friends leaving, and facing difficulties alone.
It is often said that failure is the mother of success. But if you don't use your inner spiritual vitality to face failure, summarize the reasons, and learn lessons, failure is just failure.
Only those who possess spiritual vitality, failure and suffering can stimulate this vitality and become your spiritual gain. This process of stimulation needs to be faced by itself.
Loneliness is the best time for self-appreciation, and in times of lost faith and restless hearts, loneliness is a path to self-redemption.
You can enrich yourself when you are lonely, and you can really be yourself.
So there's no need to dwell on the surface.
Accept yourself, accept solitude, enjoy solitude, and you will be truly free in spirit.
Light up "like" and "watching", and wish each of us to learn to sign a contract with loneliness in the new year, not trapped in the heart or confused, easy to move forward, full of happiness!
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