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Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Jun 30, 2023
Author(s): Burrows, Vera | Abstract: Abstract: In “Literary Archetypes and Female Role Alternativ... more Author(s): Burrows, Vera | Abstract: Abstract: In “Literary Archetypes and Female Role Alternatives: The Woman and the Novel in Latin America,” Jane S. Jaquette divides the female characters in Garcia Marquez’s Cien Anos de Soledad into three archetypes: Mother, Witch/Mysterious Woman, and Wife/Concubine. Jaquette’s proposal is a departure from the traditional archetypes of women in Latin American literature of the Virgin, the Mother, and the Whore, all of which have their genesis in biblical literature. Unfortunately, Jaquette’s archetypal schema is inadequate, for only a few of Cien Anos’s characters manage to fit into her three categories; she ignores important main characters that are neither mothers, nor witches, nor wives.This paper explores the archetypes of the Virgin, the Mother, and the Whore, and how Garcia Marquez applied and bent these traditional female roles in his classic Cien Anos de Soledad (1967). This paper also explores how Garcia Marquez’s novel laid the ground...
Aleph, UCLA Undergraduate Research Journal for the Humanities and Social Sciences
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Jun 30, 2023
Author(s): Burrows, Vera | Abstract: Abstract: In “Literary Archetypes and Female Role Alternativ... more Author(s): Burrows, Vera | Abstract: Abstract: In “Literary Archetypes and Female Role Alternatives: The Woman and the Novel in Latin America,” Jane S. Jaquette divides the female characters in Garcia Marquez’s Cien Anos de Soledad into three archetypes: Mother, Witch/Mysterious Woman, and Wife/Concubine. Jaquette’s proposal is a departure from the traditional archetypes of women in Latin American literature of the Virgin, the Mother, and the Whore, all of which have their genesis in biblical literature. Unfortunately, Jaquette’s archetypal schema is inadequate, for only a few of Cien Anos’s characters manage to fit into her three categories; she ignores important main characters that are neither mothers, nor witches, nor wives.This paper explores the archetypes of the Virgin, the Mother, and the Whore, and how Garcia Marquez applied and bent these traditional female roles in his classic Cien Anos de Soledad (1967). This paper also explores how Garcia Marquez’s novel laid the ground...
Aleph, UCLA Undergraduate Research Journal for the Humanities and Social Sciences