Latin America has faced a plethora of solitude. The deliberate striking of solitude has damaged their culture as a whole, and has made them relentlessly hold back. Magical Realism has helped them cope with their blant reality. Latin Americans have been concealing every emotion of seclusion behind a story. Time upon time again, behind the stories creativity, laid cavernous meanings; far beyond what the naked eye could interpret. Gabriel García Márquez, a writer who has done an efficient job at doing this, thoroughly explains Latin America’s solitude in his speech for the Nobel Prize in Literature. In Marquez’s speech, he uses solitude as a metaphor to convey the misconceptions of Latin American Literature and uses solitude to give the voiceless a voice.
To start with, Gabriel García Márquez uses solitude as a metaphor to convey the misconceptions of where Latin …show more content…
Culture is important to Latin America, and when one takes away their culture, a piece of their voice is lost. Gabriel García Márquez wants to speak for the speechless. For the Latin American’s who have not been able to receive a chance to speak to an audience. In his speech, he says, “We, the inventors of tales, who will believe anything, feel entitled to believe that it is not yet too late to engage in the creation of ... a new and sweeping utopia of life, where no one will be able to decide for others how they die, where love will prove true and happiness be possible, and where the races condemned to one hundred years of solitude will have, at last and forever, a second opportunity on earth” (Márquez 3). He speaks as an advocate of story writers. At the end, Márquez shifts his tone of voice. He uses solitude to bring out a more positive outlook on things. His overall goal is to one day, see individuals who have been confined in solitude, uplift beyond that to have a second chance in a utopia of
To start with, Gabriel García Márquez uses solitude as a metaphor to convey the misconceptions of where Latin …show more content…
Culture is important to Latin America, and when one takes away their culture, a piece of their voice is lost. Gabriel García Márquez wants to speak for the speechless. For the Latin American’s who have not been able to receive a chance to speak to an audience. In his speech, he says, “We, the inventors of tales, who will believe anything, feel entitled to believe that it is not yet too late to engage in the creation of ... a new and sweeping utopia of life, where no one will be able to decide for others how they die, where love will prove true and happiness be possible, and where the races condemned to one hundred years of solitude will have, at last and forever, a second opportunity on earth” (Márquez 3). He speaks as an advocate of story writers. At the end, Márquez shifts his tone of voice. He uses solitude to bring out a more positive outlook on things. His overall goal is to one day, see individuals who have been confined in solitude, uplift beyond that to have a second chance in a utopia of