Character Analysis

Character Analysis:

The character that I'll be analysing is Jose Arcadio Buendia. To me, Jose Arcadio Buendia's reasoning behind all his actions is simply powered by the fact that he is a dreamer. All of the hair brained schemes that he fell into, such as the magnet, going off trying to find the land, and many others is powered by his dreams and whimsical notions that there is actually more to life than just the physical, concrete world. I also believe that his wants and need to experience the more than concrete world are what drives his mind and soul to leave it before his body his ready to. He loses his mind, when he believes time has stopped and then he loses his sanity shortly there after. He is no longer apart of the physical world that his family is trapped in, but has moved on, even though his body is still stuck in this world. Jose Arcadio Buendia's behavior and thinking is driven by his dreaming and bigger than life thoughts, it can be told from the beginning from when he got involved in alchemy to the point where he lost sense of time and thought Monday kept repeating itself. Jose Arcadio Buendia, in the end, got his ultimate dream by leaving the concrete, physical world and journeying to a place where he could be free to dream.