One Hundred Years of Solitude characters
Úrsula Iguarán is the most important female character in the novel and the wife of José Arcadio Buendia. She lived to the age of 120 and was the mother of the family, who brought up the majority of her family members to the great-grandsons. For a long time she, because of...
Remedios Moscote is the youngest daughter of Apolinar Moscote. At the age of 9, the elderly Aureliano falls in love with her; they marry after reaching puberty. She was a child for a very long time, and after puberty, she did not shed all her childhood habits. She, for example, collected dolls...
José Arcadio Buendía is the founder of the town of Macondo and the head of a large family. He is a man of a strong character, immobile with great physical strength, strong-willed, stubborn and unyielding. He had a deep interest in the design of the world, sciences, technical...
Amaranta is the third child of José Arcadio Buendia and Ursula. Amaranta grew up with her second cousin Rebeca. When they simultaneously fall in love with the Italian Pietro Crespi, he reciprocates Rebeca, and since then they have become sworn enemies. In moments of hatred, Amaranth even...
Aureliano José is the second illegitimate son of Colonel Aureliano and Pilar Turner, later, also becomes a famous colonel. He is much younger than his cousin and brother. But unlike his half-brother Arkadio, he knew who his mother was and even lived with her for a while. Aurieliano Jose was...
Rebeca is the adopted daughter of the head of the family, José Arcadio Buendia, and Ursula. Rebecca got into their family at the age of about 10 years. The only thing with her was a sack, inside which were the bones of her parents, who were cousins of Ursula. Initially, the girl could...
Santa Sofía de la Piedad plays the role of José Arcadio submissive wife. So, in her youth, she was bought from her parents, and when her future husband Arcadio fell in love with a woman under the name of Pilar Turner, not even suspecting that she was his mother. Therefore, to prevent...
Colonel Aureliano Buendia is the second son of José Arcadio Buendia and Ursula. Aureliano often cried in the womb and was born with open eyes. Most of all loneliness affected the Colonel. He was so incapable of expressing his feelings that it was easier for him to go to the war while...
Arcadio is the illegitimate son of José Arcadio and Pilar Turner. He is a school teacher. However, he took over the leadership of Macondo at the request of Colonel Aureliano, when he was forced to leave the city. Arcadio can be described as a despotic dictator. He tried to uproot the church...