GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ: A VOICE OF LATIN AMERICA

Abstract

‘Greatness is not achieved with violence’ is an African proverb that effectively conveys to people about the idea, that the violence cannot create wonders because it only leads to hurt and defeat. The violent acts in Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Of Love and Other Demons, One Hundred Years of Solitude, and The Autumn of the Patriarch, according to this proverb, represent both human suffering and the end of the world. The chosen novels act as a mirror, reflecting people's corrupted minds through evil thoughts, which has a negative vibration that affects their lives and results in suffering. The paper focuses on author's intention in recalling the actual violent events is to raise awareness in them and to plant the seed of virtuous society.