One Hundred Years Of Solitude And Michael Crummey's Galore

Consequences Due To The Desire For Love

It is seen in todays society, that there is a urgency for woman to be married and have kids by a certain age, and if you don't have kids you are often frowned upon. Likewise in traditional literature, certain female archetypes are often portrayed as being the virgins, the mother, the witch, and the whore. As the “writers of traditional literature have ignored woman and have also transmitted misguided and prejudiced views of them;” (The Feminist Approach) . They frequently show this by characterizing woman as someone who needs to be supported by a man, which leads to the constant urgency for them to be married to fill their ‘role’ in these societies. This desire for love can ultimately lead character’s to make irrational decisions. In Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude and Michael Crummey’s Galore, characters often make irrational decisions based on their desire for love. This is frequently shown
As “Most of our literature presents a masculine-patriarchal view in which the role of woman is neglected or at best minimized”(Lenses Young Goodman) . This idea is seen in both novels when characters betray their families to marry people that they don't approve of. In the novel One Hundred Years of Solitude the author Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s shows this idea through siblings Rebeca and Jose Achardio getting married and ultimately going against their parents wishes. When Jose Achardio returns from being with the gypsies he is a very liked man in the Village of Macondo and many women are interested in him. But in the end Jose actually falls in love with his sister Rebeca. The author showed this though showing his initial attraction to her “On a certain occasion Jose Arcadio looked at her body with shameless attention and said to her; your a woman