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 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 …showed first 75 words of 931 total…

…showed last 75 words of 931 total…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. As the present becomes the past, his once idealistic approach to his existence withers into withdrawal from society. 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.