Love In Fermina's Love In The Time Of Cholera

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‘Love In The Time of Cholera’ is a great novel to express unconditional love and suffering at the same time. It is similar to ‘Like Water for Chocolate’ in a way that they both talk about love that never dies no matter what, and how two people who are meant for each other will end up together in the end.
Whether it’s suffering due to grief over a loved one or suffering due to being away from a loved one. Love is somewhat portrayed as a disease that can kill people. They are so in love that they suffer severe cholera symptoms such as vomiting and diarrhea. Here, love is definitely described as suffering because to have to go through terrible symptoms means that you will go through anything to be with someone you love.
Ever since Fermina rejected Florentino in the arcade of the scribes, he had many affairs with numerous widows to fill the void in his life. This is very similar to ‘Like Water for Chocolate’ since the protagonists both constantly feel like something is missing in their lives. For fifty-one years, nine months and four days

Just like Mama Elena was stipulated by her father to marry Juan De la Garza, so was Fermina. When her father found out about Florentino and the lve letter she wrote him before she got expelled from school, he sent her away to the …show more content…

Besides not being allowed to marry Florentino, the man whom she loved fore more than fifty years, she received many abusive and disparaging letters from people in the upper class, they were not the only ones to forbid her from marrying him. The letters made it clear to her that she must marry someone with a big name and someone as wealthy as her father. Here, Gabriel Garcia Marquez was trying to put emphasis on the true fact that society puts pressure on the community to act and behave in a certain way or else they do not belong in the same class. They are forbidden to interact with anyone of a lower

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