Matriarchs Are The Most Influential Characters In The Novels 'One Hundred Years Of Solitude' And 'Th
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... family "He lost control and struck her in the face, knocking her against the wall… Clara never spoke to her husband again,"o and Jose Arcadio Buendia's crazy fits accelerate his loss of influence over his household. "He acquired a habit of talking to himself, of walking through the house without paying attention to anyone… his feverish activity was interrupted and was replaced by a kind of fascination,"p Jose Arcadio Buendia's crazy fits forces Ursula to take action and since she loves him and wont let him go on crazy journeys, she ties him to a tree for the rest of his days. "…With the savage violence of his uncommon strength he smashed to dust the equipment in the alchemy laboratory…ten men were needed to get him down, fourteen to tie him up…left him tied up, barking in the strange language and giving off a green froth at the mouth."vThe deliberate exaggeration in the choice of words show how undesirably violent Jose Arcadio Buendia could be. Both men had traits that made them undesirable and made them stand out from the rest of their households. Jose Arcadio Buendia's fits and Esteban's violence led them to slowly destroy any links and with that any influence they ever held over their families.
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