One Hundred Years Of Solitude Biblical Allusions

In Marquez’ story, One Hundred Years of Solitude, there are frequent allusions to the bible or even real events, like the massacre of the banana plantation workers, but what do they allude to? They are open to the reader’s interpretation but many are openly seen to be to Genesis. One example is the metaphor between the new, untouched, and uncorrupted Macondo with Eden before Adam and Eve ate the apple. The five year flood that destroys Macondo alludes to the biblical flood of Noah that wiped the face of the earth.
The nearly five-year flood that deluges Macondo, practically erasing all trace of the banana company from the land, parallels the Biblical flood that covered the earth in the time of Noah. In One Hundred Years of Solitude, the world

In the biblical flood it rained for 40 days and 40 nights, and in One Hundred Years of Solitude, it rained for nearly five years. The length of time emphasizes that humans cannot attain God’s power no matter how much knowledge or technology we obtain. Before the flood, Noah, who was told by God that he would flood the earth, tried to warn people of the flood. Due to the people’s hubris that God’s power was negligible, God descended the 40 days and 40 nights of rain upon them. "Finally, the water covered even the highest mountains on the earth, standing more than twenty-two feet above the highest peaks. All the living things on earth died – birds, domestic animals, wild animals, all kinds of small animals, and all the people...They were all destroyed..." (Genesis 7:19-23). In Macondo, people had just built the railroad that exposed them to the outside world. They were bringing in new technology that the people of Macondo had never experienced before. They were in wonder, but also losing sight of how the town was before the plantation and the railroad. “The sky crumbled into a set of destructive storms and out the north came hurricane that scattered roofs about and knocked down walls and uprooted every last plant of the banana groves." (Marquez 315). Just like in Genesis, the rain came and in this way reset the town to before the banana plantation and foreigners intruded and imposed their evil