When you read forum after forum, you can't help but give in to the fact that the biblical allusions do indeed exist in One Hundred Years by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. of Loneliness. According to Diane Andrews Henningfeld, an associate professor at Adrian College who has studied this novel and its connections to history and myth, some biblical allusions include the Garden of Eden, the story of Noah's ark, and certain characters described as archetypes. As I was going through different aspects of the Bible, a very interesting thought came to mind. Why would an author include seven different generations of characters in one book? Representation. I believe Marquez used some characters from One Hundred Years of Solitude to represent the seven deadly sins of the Bible. Not only did they symbolize these sins, but in return, they each received some form of punishment for their wrongdoings. Lust is an intense, uncontrolled or illicit sexual desire. We have seen many manifestations of lust throughout this text, including lust between blood relatives. The most striking example of lust would be that of the seventeen children in love with Colonel Aureliano Buendia. Apparently, even though he was married to the new Remedios, now pubescent, it is tradition for women to sleep with soldiers; It is therefore logical that he has these children since he has been at war thirty-two times against the conservatives. The punishment in this case for excess sex is the death of the seventeen children, a form of revenge for conservatives. One of his sons had a chance to survive, but thanks to his relatives who had never met him before, he was murdered in front of the door of his father's house. “Two police officers who were chasing Aureliano Amador... middle of newspaper...... news about her husband, who killed a man who insulted him over the belt. The man's ghost continually visited them, and to get rid of him, they got rid of the chastity belt. In conclusion, all the deadly sins, sloth, gluttony, greed, envy, pride, anger and lust were represented in this painting. book through different characters. Marquez included many biblical allusions in One Hundred Years of Solitude, but the seven deadly sins are something rarely discussed, so I felt the need to talk about them and prove to you that they do exist. in this novel. Furthermore, because they were sins, they had consequences. Some were outrageous while others weren't as harmful, but overall Macondo faced punishments of all kinds. .html