Irony, Symbolism, and Imagery Reveal the Emptiness of War in One Hundre

Irony, Symbolism, and Imagery Reveal the Emptiness of War in unrivalled Hundred Years of SolitudeWhile most scholars have concord that war is a real and significant part of hu composition history, these alike(p) scholars have yet not reached a consensus on the typicals of war. History books oft lean toward glorifying war with stories of soldiers dying for their honor and homeland novels, on the otherwise hand, tend to point out the emptiness of war with stories of soldiers losing their youth and tinct with the world. The selected passage from Gabriel Garcia Marquez novel One Hundred Years of Solitude adds to the ponder over wars characteristics. Through the literary techniques of irony, symbolism, and imagery, this text reveals the major(ip) theme that, in reality, war is not glorious but inane. By having Colonel Gerineldo Marquez conclude his cable with the slogan Long Live the Liberal party, the author successfully creates a sense of irony in the reader at the end of the sulfur paragraph. While the first two sentences of the passage present Colonel Marquez as the cultivated and military leader of Macondo who has realized the emptiness of war, this party slogan presents voice communication that carry no weight when written by a man who believes his commanding officer to be a total stranger. Positioned high on the military chain of command, Colonel Marquez received the opportunity to witness the wars progression from an free employment of clear definition and predictable course, to a widespread conflict of augmenting intensity and uncertainty. Therefore, his words I understand, Aureliano,...Long Live the Liberal party start ironic. Colonel Aureliano Buendia will consider these words to be a patriotic instruction of orders, when th... ...magery, and irony, combine to create a successful introduction of one of the novels major themes - the emptiness of war. By having Colonel Gerineldo Marquez realize the true disposition of war and wherefore referring to him as the first in line to make that realization, the author sets up the reader for a series of other witnesses whose testimonies should make the statement concerning wars characteristic emptiness even more valid. Later in the novel, Colonel Aureliano Buendia discovers the true nature of war only after twenty years of fighting on with a sad realization that the conservative regime he had been stressful to topple all this time is good and in accordance with the peoples wishes. Colonel Buendia so recognizes that war is not a conflict of ideologies, but an ugly and empty struggle for power, concluding a thematic thread started by Colonel Gerineldo Marquez.