"Love in the times of Cholera". Through out the novel the symptoms of unrequited love and cholera are stated and they seem to have a inevitable resemblance.

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Love In The Time Of Cholera-Angel Madero Through out the novel the symptoms of unrequited love and cholera are stated and they seem to have a inevitable resemblance.In the book first pages a phrase that relates Cholera with love directly shows the reader how both of them have the same lasting effect on people “reminded him of the fate of unrequited love”this fate is death. The most literal comparison between both symptoms is made when Florentino due to love decides to drink his perfume and because of this he suffers from vomits and a severe illness. In this situation there is a clear relationship between symptoms of cholera and love because love causes a physical symptom equal to cholera. Cholera is also a disease that starts with a single flue and then starts to develop stronger until it makes the person suffer and die, this particularity is also present in love due to the fact that love starts as a simple feeling that is attraction then it develops into a stronger love that if not responded will make the person suffer like they suffer in the book. Cholera is a incurable disease, meaning that once it starts there are no ways to stop it but there are medicines that may decrease the pain, this
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characteristics of cholera is also reflected in love, because as showed in the book love is a permanent and perdurable feeling that would not vanish in time but that as Florentino does by establishing relationships and having sex with a lot of women, it may be appeased. The literal and metaphoric functions of cholera plague in the novel are the following, the literal function is to relate love with a horrible disease that affects people in a incurable way, the metaphoric function is to state that love is not a feeling but it is a disease that starts to grow ...

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