Marquez: Love In The Time Of Cholera, Many Forms of Love are Revealed
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In Gabriel Garcia Marquez' novel Love in the Time of Cholera, we are treated to the long-term romantic triangle among the hopeless romantic Florentino Ariza; Fermina Daza, the woman he loves; and Fermina's husband, Dr. Juvenal Urbino. While this love triangle drives the action and decades of time that unfold in the novel, many forms of love are revealed by Marquez in the novel, from platonic to adulterous, besides the unrequited love Florentino experiences with Fermina. Despite the various forms of love, Marquez' theme seems to be that love is as much an illusion for the characters as are their illusions of society. A conclusion will address Marquez overall perspective on love. In Love in the Time of Cholera, Marquez presents an unnamed seaport in the Caribbean where the love affair between Florentino and Fermina begins when they are teens. In a long-distance relationship, they engage in a passionate affair until Fermina rejects Florentino and becomes the wife of a wealthy doctor, Juvenal Urbino. Despite carrying on numerous affairs with a dizzying number of women, when Urbino dies decades la
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Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page)
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