Individuals lose their identity in a historical context, but the collective has power even over history, able to rewrite it for its own purposes. Overall, Márquez seems to support this reworking and discarding of history, as we see, for example, in the end of the Buendías line at the close of the novel. The novel, thus, advocates change, a modernization and democratization of the world. The depictions of massacre in the two novels, overall, differ in their perspectives on individualism and history. Snow grants recognition and agency to the individual (though he also represents the collective and the historical as powerful), whereas One Hundred Years of Solitude asserts that the individual is lost in the historical, which in turn may be influenced by the
Individuals lose their identity in a historical context, but the collective has power even over history, able to rewrite it for its own purposes. Overall, Márquez seems to support this reworking and discarding of history, as we see, for example, in the end of the Buendías line at the close of the novel. The novel, thus, advocates change, a modernization and democratization of the world. The depictions of massacre in the two novels, overall, differ in their perspectives on individualism and history. Snow grants recognition and agency to the individual (though he also represents the collective and the historical as powerful), whereas One Hundred Years of Solitude asserts that the individual is lost in the historical, which in turn may be influenced by the