The two characters that I will choose for my comparative study are 'Bua' from 'The Heart Breaks Free' and 'Ursula Iguran' from 'The 100 Years Of Solitude'.

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The topic of the role of women in society has been discussed globally for many years, it is discussed to such an extent that every other society is looking in to it, and one of those societies belong to the subcontinent. Due to this, I choose to write my world lit assignment on it. I will attempt to analyze and compare two female characters from the book ‘The heart breaks free’ by Ismat Chugtai and ‘The 100 Years of Solitude’ by Nobel prize winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

Ismat chugtai writes truly about women and how they were degraded and emotionally dominated by men in their society, while on the other hand Marquez writes about the strength and intelligence of his female characters and how they dominated their men, although this was not the true purpose of Marquez’s writing.

Ismat Chugtai belonged to the subcontinent, and chose to write this particular book during World War 2, she was in her 30’s at the time and observed with a great curiosity of the way of life around her, especially the women who led a suffocating existence restrained within there homes, observing strict purdha, through her writing she wanted to provoke the women of her country to fight for their rights. On the other hand, Marquez belonged to Colombia and wrote this book in 1967. He won the Nobel Prize for literature for his inventiveness, flow of ideas and imagination.The book is framed by his devotion to two women. The first is his mother, who gave birth to him on Sunday, March 6 1927, and who emerges as not only the central figure of his childhood, but as the well-spring of his magical view of life. The second is Mercedes Barcha, "to whom I had been proposing marriage since she was 13", and whose final acceptance closes the volume.

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The two characters that I will choose for my comparative study are ‘Bua’ from ‘The Heart Breaks Free’ and ‘Ursula Iguran’ from ‘The 100 Years Of Solitude’.   

The women in the book 100 Years of Solitude, for the most part are firmly anchored in daily reality, as obsessed as the men, but with routines of daily living. Ursula is the guardian of the family, and the constant presence in the house, so we call her the matriarch of Macondo. Her overwhelming concern was the honor of the family and the avoidance of incest. She has no interest ...

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