Machismo In One Hundred Years
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Latin American countries are known worldwide for their lush rain forests, unique cuisine, extravagant fiestas, and the enormous potential of their human and natural resources. Unfortunately, Latin America's international identity and its people have suffered decades of military dictatorship, oppres ....
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.... ills Marquez was concerned about in his respective country: the tragic results of machismo.
Authoritarianism, or perhaps one of its greatest bi-products, machismo, is omnipresent throughout "One Hundred Years of Solitude". Machismo is defined in the Oxford Dictionary as: "exaggeratedly assertive manliness; a show of masculinity." Colonel Aureliano Buendia best exemplifies this definition. Marquez uses the Colonel's amoral, irrational actions and behaviour to reveal the terrible conseque ....
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