Reading forum after forum, you can't help but surrender to the fact that in One Hundred Years of Gabriel Garcia Márquez there are biblical allusions to Solitude. According to Diane Andrews Henningfeld, an associate professor at Adrian College who has studied this novel and its connections to history and myths, some of the biblical allusions include the Garden of Eden, the story of Noah's Ark, and some characters portrayed as archetypes. As I was examining various aspects of the Bible, a very interesting thought came to mind. Why would an author include seven different generations of characters in one book? Representation. I believe Márquez used some characters from One Hundred Years of Solitude to represent the seven deadly sins of the Bible. Not only did they symbolize these sins, but in return each of them received a form of punishment for their wrong actions. Lust is an intense, uncontrolled, or illicit sexual desire. We have seen many manifestations of lust throughout this text, including lust between blood relatives. The most obvious example of lust would have to be the seventeen love children of Colonel Aureliano Buendia. Supposedly, even though he was married to the fresh, now pubescent Remedios, it is tradition for women to sleep with soldiers; so it makes sense for him to have those kids since he's been at war with conservatives thirty-two times. The punishment in this case for excess sex is the death of seventeen children, a form of revenge for conservatives. There was a chance for a son to survive, but thanks to his relatives who had never met him before, he was murdered on the threshold of his father's house. “Two policemen chasing Aureliano Amador... in the middle of the newspaper... a news story about her husband, who killed a man who had insulted him above the waist. The man's ghost visited them continuously and to get rid of it they got rid of the chastity belt. In conclusion, every mortal sin, sloth, gluttony, greed, envy, pride, anger and lust, were represented in this book through different characters. Marquez included many biblical allusions in One Hundred Years of Solitude, but the seven deadly sins are something that has rarely been talked about, which is why I felt the need to bring it up and show you that they do, in fact, exist. in this novel. Furthermore, since these were sins, they came with consequences. Some were scandalous while others were not so harmful, but all in all Macondo faced all sorts of punishments. .html