destruction of Macondo
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The destruction of Macondo is the apocalyptic end of the fictional town in Gabriel García Márquez’s novel "One Hundred Years of Solitude," symbolizing the ultimate collapse of the Buendía family and their world.
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| destruction of Macondo canonical | 1 |
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Target entity: destruction of Macondo Context triple: [Buendía family, linkedToEvent, destruction of Macondo]
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Target entity: destruction of Macondo Target entity description: The destruction of Macondo is the apocalyptic end of the fictional town in Gabriel García Márquez’s novel "One Hundred Years of Solitude," symbolizing the ultimate collapse of the Buendía family and their world.
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A.
Great Dying
The Great Dying is the most severe mass extinction event in Earth's history, occurring about 252 million years ago and wiping out the majority of marine and terrestrial species.
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B.
Destruction of the Seven Cities
The Destruction of the Seven Cities was a series of late 16th- and early 17th-century Mapuche uprisings in southern Chile that wiped out several Spanish colonial settlements and reshaped the region’s colonial frontier.
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C.
Churban
Churban is a Jewish term referring to the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem and, by extension, catastrophic national calamities in Jewish history.
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D.
Deluge
The Deluge was a mid-17th-century series of devastating invasions and occupations, primarily by Sweden and Russia, that led to massive destruction and decline in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
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E.
The Catastrophe
"The Catastrophe" is a political work by Russian revolutionary leader Alexander Kerensky analyzing the collapse of the Russian Provisional Government and the events leading to the Bolshevik takeover in 1917.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
apocalyptic event
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fictional event ⓘ literary motif ⓘ |
| appearsInWork | "One Hundred Years of Solitude" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| createdBy | Gabriel García Márquez NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| describedAs |
apocalyptic wind
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final cataclysm ⓘ |
| firstPublishedIn | 1967 ⓘ |
| hasAuthor | Gabriel García Márquez NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCause |
cyclical repetition of the Buendía family’s mistakes
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deciphering of the parchments by Aureliano Babilonia ⓘ fulfillment of Melquíades’ prophecies ⓘ incestuous culmination of the Buendía family line ⓘ |
| hasLocation | Macondo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
fate and predestination
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magical realism ⓘ memory and forgetting ⓘ rise and fall of civilizations ⓘ solitude ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | Spanish ⓘ |
| literarySignificance |
iconic ending in Latin American literature
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paradigmatic example of apocalyptic closure in fiction ⓘ |
| medium | novel ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
closure of the novel
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resolution of the Buendía family saga ⓘ revelation of the meaning of the parchments ⓘ |
| partOf | novel "One Hundred Years of Solitude" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Aureliano Babilonia
NERFINISHED
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Buendía family NERFINISHED ⓘ Melquíades’ parchments NERFINISHED ⓘ prophecy ⓘ |
| resultsIn |
end of the Buendía family
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erasure of Macondo from history ⓘ obliteration of the town’s memory ⓘ |
| setInCountryOfOriginOfWork | Colombia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInGenre | magical realism ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
collapse of the Buendía family
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cyclical nature of history ⓘ end of a world ⓘ failure of the Buendía lineage ⓘ inevitability of oblivion ⓘ limits of human memory ⓘ self-destruction brought by solitude ⓘ |
| timeInNarrative |
end of the Buendía family’s seventh generation
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final chapter of "One Hundred Years of Solitude" ⓘ |
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