Maternal/Paternal Icons

1. Maternal/Paternal Icons A comparison between the leadership roles of women and of men in One Hundred Years of Solitude.

2. Úrsula Iguarán Fernanda del Carpio Rebeca Amaranta Background Controlling the house Raising the children Interaction with men Personal goals Important actions Maternal Icons About These Women

3. Background: Great-Grandmother had survived Sir Francis Drake’s attack Her cousin born with pig’s tail (sets up fear of incest) Control of the House: Open Doors Relaxed Absolute Control Raising of Children: Strict ruling Loving (particularly to José Arcadio) Úrsula Iguarán

4. Interaction with men: Does not wish to have intercourse with José Arcadio Buendía Wears a “chastity belt” of sorts to prevent rape by her husband Tries to keep her husband and sons down to earth Personal Goals: Prevent Incest Afraid of a child born with a pig’s tail Remain in charge of household (even when blind and deaf) Important Actions: Finds the 2-day route to civilisation Opens trade and technology aside form gypsies Úrsula Iguarán

5. Background: Raised to believe she was destined for greatness Family’s wealth waning Aristocratic line of ancestry Not of any consequence since she had no aristocratic power Control of the House: Closed Doors Iron Fist Absolute Control Raising of Children: Strict Expects her son to become a pope Very religious upbringing Fernanda del Carpio

6. Interaction with Men: Married to Aureliano Segundo Strict catholic moral code Estranged to Aureliano due to his hedonist ideals Tries to control her husband Personal Goals: Catholicising Macondo Live up to aristocratic name Important Actions: Brings organised religion to Macondo with force Fernanda del Carpio

7. Background: Abandoned for the first 5 months of her life Raised under Úrsula Has “adopted” little sister, Rebeca Control of the House and Raising of Children: Not applicable Interaction with Men: VERY controling Goes to exremes to get what she wants Personal goals: Prevent Rebeca and Pietro from marrying Be/Seem more important than Rebeca Important Actions: Prevents both possible marriages for Pietro Crespi, driving him to suicide Amaranta

8. Background: Abandoned by real parents, raised by Úrsula Tendency to eat dirt and white wash Control of House and Raising of Children Not applicable Interaction with Men: Engaged to Pietro Crespi Affair with José Arcadio ending in marriage Personal Goals: Get Pietro by any means (throws fits) Important Actions: Brings the insomnia plague and thoroughly disrupts Buendía household Rebeca

9. José Arcadio Buendía Colonel Aureliano Buendéa José Arcadio Background Pioneering Nature Relations with Children Relations with Women Personal Goals Important Actions Paternal Icons About These Men

10. Background: Similar to that of Úrsula Does not have the same fear of incest, and it is his lust that brings him and Úrsula together Pioneering Nature: Founds Macondo Fascination with gypsy technology Inventions Relations with Children: Bestows his excessive curiosity on the Aurelianos The eldest of which accompanies him to dicover ice Bestows his impulsiveness and enterprising nature on the Arcadios José Arcadio Buendía

11. Relations with Women: Forceful Sexually Impulsive Personal Goals: Wants to make a name for himself Macondo, Magnets, Compass, Ice Important Actions: The “Adam” of the novel, primary patriarch of the Buendías Founds Macondo Origin of the entire novel. José Arcadio Buendía

12. Background: Raised with his father’s curious nature Second son of the Buendía family Pioneering Nature: Fought the the wars Leader for the liberal cause Out of pride, not idealism Led 38 armed uprisings unsuccessful Relations with Children: Has 17 children by Remedios Mascote All named Aureliano Raised to be soldiers like their father Colonel Aureliano Buendía

13. Relations with Women: Has many illegitimate chilren Never truly bonds with any woman (or anyone) Mourns for Remedios when she dies, but not as profound a sorrow as he’d thought Personal Goals: Win the war and overthrow government with liberalism Actually done entirely to validate his pride Important Actions: Fights in the war Goes insane after executing his rival Spends the rest of his life making little gold fish Colonel Aureliano Buendía

14. Background: First son of the Buendía family Inherits his father’s and enterprising nature Very impulsive and emotional Pioneering Nature: Leaves Macondo with the gypsies Returns much changed: tattooed and much stronger Relations with Children: Only has one child (by Pilar Ternera Abandons young Arcadio to travel with the gypsies José Arcadio

15. Relations with Women: Has relations with Pilar Runs off with gypsies because of a gypsy girl Easily becomes emotionally attached to a woman Important Actions: Causes Úrsula’s 5 month disappearance Travels with gypsies and becomes brutish In line with his new more beastly nature, he maintains martial law in Macondo during the war. José Arcadio

16. Down to Earth Internally concerned Motherly Rule the roost Dreaming Enterprising In control of relationships, not of the house Aloof Women Men