Comparing Satire in 100 Years of Solitude and The House of the Spirits :: Comparison Compare Contrast Essays

Use of Satire in coke Years of Solitude and The can of the Spirits           A major immersion with contemporary South American novelists, as seen with Gabriel Marquezs 100 years of retirement and Isabelle Allendes The house of the spirits, is the traditionalistic and long lasting conflict between the Liberals and the conservatives. Although a common concentration with Marquez, Allende, and various another(prenominal) Latin American novelists the manner in which this preoccupation is expressed varies considerably depending on the author. In 100 years of solitude, Marquez looks to satire in all its forms, to express this preoccupation. This is contrasted with  Allendes The House of the Spirits in which she uses conflict in ideologies between generations as her method of exposition, as seen for representative in the conflict between Esteban Trueba (a true conservative) and his grandaughter Alba.           To see how Garcia and Allende treat political issues we must first understand why they chose to examine them. When Marquez wrote his first whole kit and caboodle Colombia suffered the second greatest American fratricidal war of the twentieth century, as a result of the assassination of the popular Liberal leader Jorge Eliecer Gaitan, in 1948. His novels examine in his words ... motives for that violence. The importance of politics in the Novel is reflected in the choice of title 100 years of solitude which correspond to the 100 years between the formation of Colombia, in 1830 to 1930 when Conservative homogeny ended.  Allende on the other hand was the niece of the first Socialist president in Chile who was killed undermentioned the Coup.           The Oxford Dictionary defines satire as a piece ...in which prevalent follies or vices are assailed with ridicule or serious denunciation. This is exactly what Marquez has done. Hyperbole is s alubrious used in the novel in the form of Magical realism. Marquez believed that Magical Realism ...provides a magnifying glass so readers can understand reality better... (as quoted in playboy interview). We first see this used in the opening pages of the novel where Marquez describes the serviceman as ...so recent that many things lacked names, and in order to indicate them it was requisite to point. This parallels the political naivety of the newly formed Colombian republic. Macondo is a tend of Eden .