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 Garcia Marquez. In One Hundred Years of Solitude, Colonel Aureliano Buendia 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
The civil war causes him to continually alter his attitude on life. warfare is futile and has caused him to "rot alive. 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. " Throughout Aureliano's life, he undergoes a transformation from a lively leader to a corrupt cynic, and ultimately dies a dispassionate loner. The views which he once had, slowly disappeared, just as the hands of time turn into fading memories.
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