Hello All,
Happy New Year!
here are some questions found on the Internet for us to consider, and feel free to post your questions.
1. What kinds of solitude occur in the novel's last 7 chapters (for example, solitude of pride, grief, power, love, or death), and with whom are they associated? What circumstances produce them? What similarities and differences are there among the various kinds of solitude?
2. What varieties of love occur in the novel in Chapters 10 and 17? Does any kind of love transcend or transform the ravages of everyday life, politics and warfare, history, and time itself? Give examples of two couples.
3. What are the contrast of personalities between Fernanda and Petra?
4. What is the importance of the various inventions, gadgets, and technological wonders introduced into Macondo over the years, and especially in Chapters 10-17? What happened to Macondon in the very end of the story?
5. What types of women (from Ursula and Pilar to Meme and Amaranta Ursula) and what types of men (from Jose Arcadio to Aureliano Babilonia) are distinguishable? What characteristics do the men share? What characteristics do the women share?
6. What dreams, prophecies, and premonitions occur in the novel? With which specific characters and events are they associated, and what is their purpose?
7 How did the end of the story connect with the beginning of the story?
8 Which character you seem to most admire, or despise? Why?
9. Share one or two paragraphs that you feel that was most inter sting, or your favorites.
10 comments:
These are excellent questions!
To answer them I have to re-read it :-)
5. 用一句别人的话来说：“男人来自火星，女人来自金星”。
《百年孤独》中的男人和女人正是来自两个不同的星辰。
男人们沉湎幻想， 女人们脚踏实地。
男人们追求功利，女人们精明能干。
How about each of us grab one question?
#5 is mine and act quickly to grab the rest, ladies!
#9; My favorite part -- p.204 -205
During the celetration of 霍老二的 jubilee, 17 men knoced at his door, with most varied appearance, but all with a solitary air...
thanks for your anaswers! Fireflie!
You get the best out of us. and the book.
Let's not forget who's who (among us).
接着说第5题：《百年孤独》 中的女人们脚踏实地，很有适应能力。 以乌苏拉为例子，她维系着家庭的存在， 同时从伦理道德上是大家的榜样. 男人们却不能善始善终， 他们是异想天开的一类. 他们离家出走，经常做种种蠢事. 第1代老祖就不必多说，第2代的上校是另一个例子， 他刚愎自用，无情无义， 引起国家多年战乱。 却在自己的鼎盛时期，卸甲回家做起小金鱼金匠， 默默无闻的度过晚年。女人们也各有自己的特征， 没有一个所谓完美的女性。乌苏拉，皮拉活得最长， 没有她俩，霍家的兴旺发达，传宗接代即无话可谈。霍家的女儿们， Amaranta, Rebeca， Remedios the beauty， 都没孩子， RenataRemedios（Meme）和Amranta Ursula 和马贡多一起消亡了。嫁过来的 Fernando del Carpio 和她老公的情妇各有千秋。这留着Alice 和水竹说吧！
2.Don't really have a good answer for this but could figure it out some way by the the pattern of relationship between two aunts with their nephews in their family three.
我也就第2题说两句：同意雪同学关于姨妈和外甥的恋情。他们恋得真挚，忘我，超越了伦理范围？
再加上姜武（我就是这么记得）和他情妇的恋情，是放荡的，无拘无束的，拆不散也扯不断。
第3题：Fernanda自命不凡，墨守陈规，缺乏同情心。
Petra 是个多情种，敢想敢干，无所顾忌，并具有超人的才能。
第4题:西方的文明和技术奇迹从一开始就被介绍到马贡多，使生活在这个闭塞的的小岛上的人窥视外面世界的精彩， 同时也带来了殖民主义的掠夺与侵入。书结尾时的橡胶园事件就是一例。由于马贡多人不能摆脱自身的落后意识，缺乏团结精神，加上连绵的内乱和缺乏明智的政府，科学文明也无法拯救他们从一开始就注定要销声匿迹的命运。
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