Machismo In One Hundred Years

Part I of Essay
Latin American countries are known worldwide for their lush rain forests, unique cuisine, extravagant fiestas, and the enormous potential of their human and natural resources. Unfortunately, Latin America's international identity and its people have suffered decades of mili ....

Part II of Essay
.... of machismo. Authoritarianism, or perhaps one of its greatest bi-products, machismo, is omnipresent throughout "One Hundred Years of Solitude". Machismo is defined in the Oxford Dictionary as: "exaggeratedly assertive manliness; a show of masculinity." Colonel Aureliano Buendia best exemplifies this definition. Marquez uses the Colonel's amoral, irrational actions and behaviour to reveal the terrible consequences of machismo. Aureliano inquires about sexual activity at a very young age. He begins to gradually comprehend what his older b ....