The Devil Incarnate - Analysis of Fernanda from One Hundred Years of Solitude

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The Devil Incarnate

“The damnation of the family had come when it opened its doors to a stuck-up highlander” (348). That and other unsavoury comments have accompanied Fernanda’s stay in the Buendia household in One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Unfairly perceived as the devil incarnate, Fernanda del Carpio’s megalomanical actions are actually her ways of hiding her burning insecurities and showing her love for the Buendia family. Restricted by her past, Fernanda tries to meld into the family by impressing them with her impeccable upbringing and changing the family, to her, for the better, though that backfires upon her miserably.

        Fernanda is to be a queen. (222). She is raised in imposed solitude and spends her time in expensive lessons that teach her how to be a queen but not a person. She does her business in a gold chamber pot with her family crest on it and travels for two blocks in a coach drawn by horses. (222). For all her lessons on how to deal with nobles and the Pope, Fernanda has never known how to deal with ordinary, everyday people, having never had a friend in her life. Thus raised by her parents in an illusion of life, Fernanda experiences reality for the first time in Macondo. (223). Shocked by the brutality of the transition, Fernanda tries to adapt with the things that she knows best – pretentious, pretentious, finery.

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        Soon after her marriage into the Buendia family, Fernanda imposed her ancestral ways on everyone by changing their eating habits and reciting the rosary before dinner. (227). She closes Ursula’s shop in pastries and candy animals and closes up the Buendia house on the whole. She changes the Buendia family into “people of quality”, a statement opined by Aureliano Buendia. (228). Transforming the House of Buendia into the Carpio’s ancient and icy mansion serves to make Fernanda feel more at home, because she is otherwise a stranger in the house unwelcome even by Ursula. Fernanda could have thought that the ...

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