Choose ONE SENTENCE from pages 203-222 that, in your view, best characterizes Fernanda. Copy it in your comment and then write about 3-5 sentences explicating the passage and what it shows about her.
23 comments:
Anonymous
said...
This quote is found on page 211. "In spite of the visible hostility of the family, Fernanda did not give up her drive to impose the customs of her ancestors." Going from a very aristocratic family to the Buendia's was a huge jump for Fernanda. Like her great- grandmother, she has always wanted to become queen. Taken into the Buendia household, she tries to still achieve this dream by placing her family's customs on the Buendia family. She tries to influence the Buendia family by changing the household from a once calm and relaxing place to an aristocratic structure causing chaos among the family. by Kate Lonergan B period
" Even Ursula's superstitions, with origins that came from an inspiration of the momnent them form tradition, came into conflict with those of Fernanda, who had inherited them from her parents adn kept them defined and cataloged for every occasion.(page 211)" Fernanda is the only women who has entered the Buendia family and sustained her role in the family, along with making a change in the family, specifically in their traditions. By bringing new tratitions into the Buendia family Fernanda is causing a "break" in the family's cycle ofrepeating past actions. The fact that Fernanda catalogs her family's traditions shows that she is respectful of her traditions and very headstrong for trying to impose her traditions onto the Buendia family.
I do not really have a quote, but I do agree with what Kate had to say about Fernanda. To take her analysis maybe a bit further, I would say that Fernanda is another example of the Buendia family rejecting another outside presence from influencing their lives. Fernanda tries very hard to instill into them her very religious and aristocratic values, but they just won't, or couldn't accept them as their own. This point is even accentuated by the fact that Aureliano Segundo keeps his relationship going with Petra. This is just another example, or symbol even, of the Buendia family clinging to their past, rather than looking ahead to the future and the new ideas that have fallen upon Macondo. by Dylan Hruska, B Period
This quote is found on page 211. "Even Ursula's superstitions, with origins that came more from an inspiration of the moment than from tradition, came into conflict with those of Fernanda, who had inherited them from her parents and kept them defined and cataloged for every occasion." The Buendia family line has been based upon superstitions and cautions since the founding of Macondo and the fear the family held when it came to incest. Fernanda's family is very matter of fact about anything which could be interpreted as hazy or not quite clear in its reasoning. These two ideas collide when Fernanda enters the Buendia household and show how Fernanda attempts to take over as the "queen" of the house and make everything perfect as she sees fit, while Ursula sees the world in a looser fashion and is appalled by the strictness of Fernanda's impositions on the household. This shows the conflict between the two family traditions and how Fernanda truly does not fit into the Buendia household in any aspect.
"But when the first daughter was born she expressed her unreserved determination to name her Renata after her mother...Fernanda went on calling her just Renata while her husband's family and everyone in town called her Meme..." (212)
Fernanda's insistence to name her daughter after her mother further demonstrates her complete resolve to instill her family's traditional values into her new life. However, as shown by the Buendia family's rejection of Renata as a name, no matter how hard Fernanda tries, she will not be able to be a complete part of the Buendia family. Their resistance any 'outsiders' exemplifies their complete and utter solitude. Fernanda can do nothing to become an integral part of the Buendias, so she ends up constantly fighting against the family in a fruitless attempt to implement her customs. Her persistence despite little success truly demonstrates her iron will to maintain the facade that she is still important and powerful.
"the circle of rigidity begun by Fernanda from the moment she arrived finally closed completely and no one but she determined the destiny of the family." pg 211. When Fernanda first came into the family, she was not used to such a loose family structure, she was used to the strict and structured family life. Because Fernanda is only used to that strictness, she tries to apply and enforce some of this when she comes into the Buendia family. she can not really accomplish this while Ursula is still the head of the family, but Ursula is getting old and becoming incapable of running the family. This quote explains how Fernanda takes position as soon as she sees a clear shot, and when Ursula is too old and has to step aside. Fernanda now tries to change the Buendia's family structure to more of the family structure she grew up with.
"the circle of rigidity begun by Fernanda from the moment she arrived finally closed completely and no one but she (Ursula) determined the destiny of the family" (221).
The arrival of Fernanda causes tension in the Buendia house. The crucial example of this tension is the reaction Ursula takes to the values and beliefs Fernanda attempts to bring into the family. This conflict between the two characters brings out a major similarity that Ursula and Fernanda share. Marquez has been using very similar characters and character names throughout the 100 year period to show the little change that happens inside the family while there surroundings change greatly. Now, for the first time, a character is compared to Ursula, the allknowing powerful leader of the Buendias. This character comparison reveals a future that Fernanda has as becoming the leader of the Buendia offspring.
"In spite of the visible hostility of the family, Fernanda did not give up her drive to impose the customs of her ancestors." (211)
This quote displays Fernanda's relentless attempt to the change the ways of the Buendia family. In her attempt to formalize and Christianize the Buendias, it is clear that her upbringing was far different than her current life in Macondo. She was raised and schooled in an extremely religious and strict environment and she brings this element of the outside world into Macondo. To me, Fernanda’s character is another example of the outside world “contaminating” or harming a perfectly fine Macando.
Fernanda’s mother told her when she was a child that she was going to become a queen, and this idea completely embodies Fernanda’s attitude when she comes to Macondo. She is always trying to impose her will on the family and the town, as she believes that everyone should follow her way of life because she is the “queen” and her way of life is “better”. For example, as the new “queen” of the Buendias, she determines that the making of small candy animals was an “unworthy activity” and she made sure it was stopped.
“In spite of the visible hostility of the family, Fernanda did not give up her drive to impose the customs of her ancestors” (211). This quote shows how Fernanda came from a wealthy, aristocratic family, who always told her she would become queen one day. Later on in the novel, after she marries Aureliano Segundo, partly from her family and her environment, Fernanda is described as religious and prude. Even though she no longer lives with her family, she still implements her upper-class views into the relaxed BuendÃa household, transforming the household unpleasantly and strictly.
"Fernanda carried a delicate calendar with small golden keys on which her spiritual adviser had marked in purple ink the dates of venereal abstinence. Not counting Holy Week, Sundays, holy days of obligation, first Fridays, retreats, sacrifices, and cyclical impediments, her effective year was reduced to 42 days that were spread out through a web of purple crosses." (208-209) This passage shows how important organized Catholicism is to Fernanda. This as well as her aristocratic livelihood is what Fernanda tries to impose on the Buendia family who does not respond well at all to her attempts.
I know that a lot of people have used this quote the quote on page 211 best describes Fernanda, "In spite of the visible hostility of the family, Fernanda did not give up her drive to impose the customs of her ancestors." Fernanda was raised to an aristocratic family and her very haughty personality represents this. She tries to maintain these family customs in the household of the Buendia family. She also tries to bring her religious background to the family altogether changing it into an aristocratic house of pandemonium. She also wants to eventually become a queen which is her motivation for turning the Buendia house to the basis of her old family customs.
"the circle of rigidity begun by Fernanda from the moment she arrived finally closed completly and no one but she determined the destiny of the family" page 211
I was just looking at the diction in this quote and noticed a few things. The words "rigidity" and "closed completly" characterize Fernanda perfectly. She always seems to be tence and unwilling to let outside forces effect her life. She is a very solitary person, whose life only makes sence if there is a strictness to it. This is why she tries to enforce her traditions on the Buendia's. Fernanda can't survive in a world without rules and controll because she has no creativity and no personality.
“Fernanda was a woman who was lost in the world…Until puberty she had no news of the world” (205). This quote shows how just like the Buendias, Fernanda lives in solidarity. I think she tries to impose her customs upon the Buendia family because since she grows up in isolation, she has no concept of diverse lifestyles. She is just trying to maintain some normality as the world of Macondo around her is becoming increasingly modern.
i chose a quote that relates to the quote almost everyone used on page 211. "The business in the pastries and small candy animals that Santa Sofia de la Piedad had kept up because of Ursula's wishes was considered an unworthy activity by Fernanda and she lost no time in putting a stop to it" (211) This quote represents Fernanda's determination to instill her families aristocratic tradition into the Buendia family. She does not want any relative to continue their own traditions. This is why she tries to stop the pastry and candy making. Ursula, having gone blind, can no longer bake and so her Sofia graciously is continuing her hobby.
"At first Fernanda did not talk about her family, but in time she began to idealize her father. She spoke of him at the table as an exceptional being who had renounced all forms of vanity and was on his way to becoming a saint." (pg. 212) Fernanda was brought up in a household that was supposed to be great but her family's status is fading but given her unremitting desire for greatness, she refuses to accept the decline of aristocracy in her family. With her and Aureliano Segundo already on rocky terms, this unrealistic belief that her family is so great causes him and the rest of the family to mock her. This causes even more separation between her and the rest of the Buendia family and she continues to try to mold the Buendia family into an aristocratic household and fails miserable.
"in spite of the visible hostility of the family, Fernanda did not give up her drive to impose the customs of her ancestors." I think that this quote show how much Fernanda refuses to conform to the traditions and customs of the Buendia family. She tries to impose her own customs(eating in the dining room) either because she thinks her way is the better way or she is scared of change. She tries to make the Buendia family more like what her family used to be like, but this only leads to the family rejecting another outsider.
"Until the day of her wedding she dreamed about a legendary kingdom, in spite of the fact that her father, Don Fernando, had to mortgage the house in order to buy her trousseau. It was not innocence or delusions of grandeur. That was how they had brought her up." (206)
This quote describes how easily Fernanda grew up. She got everything she wanted, whether it hurt her family or not (the mortgage they had to get), she didn't care. All she cares about it herself and she is very independent in that sense. Although sometimes she feels deep down that she wants to fit in, like be a part of the Buendia family, she somehow finds a way to subtly push herself away because of how she learned to grow up, by sitting alone at school and not conversing with anyone. You can tell a lot about a person by how they grew up.
"she put an end to the custom of eating in the kitchen and whenever anyone was hungry, and she imposed the obligation of doing it at regular hours at the large table in the dining room" p. 211 This quote demonstrates the obvious intrusion of customs inflicted upon by Fernanda. Her imposition on the family reveals her true character who believes that her ideals are superior to those of the Buendia family. This sense of superiority reinforces her family's history of aristocracy.
“But when she lost her sight and the weight of her years relegated her to a corner, the circle of rigidity begun by Fernanda from the moment she arrived finally closed completely and no one but she determined the destiny of the family”(228). Fernanda’s persistent determination to change the Buendia is shown as she insists on bring her own culture and way of life the Buendia household. As Ursula’s faculties begin to fail her Fernanda begins to impose her whims about the household, deciding what is best for the family members as well as how the house should be run. Fernanda stubbornness to convert the Buendia household to be more like her own slowly starts to take effect as the Buendia’s eventually start to give in.
"In spite of the visible hostility of the family, Fernanda did not give up her drive to impose the customs of her ancestors." Before marrying Aureliano Segundo, Fernanda's family was extremely wealthy and definitely played the part. Her mother always told her that she was going to be the queen someday, and this ideology rubbed off on her. Now every chance she has, Fernanda implements her own beliefs and customs into the Buendia household. Fernanda's influence causes the solitude that once represented the Buendia house and family turn upside down to a place of chaos and confusion. -spencer Myers B period
"The circle of rigidity begun by Fernanda from the moment she arrived finally closed completely and no one but she determined the destiny of the family." (p.211)
Fernanda grew up in an aristocratic lifestyle one day believing she would become queen. However, her family name lost its prominence and as her wealth began to dwindle she lost claim to the thrown. Her destiny of what she believed to be a lavish lifestyle being queen was gone. The moment Fernanda moves into the House of Buendias she imposes a strict and rigid rule similar to the one which she grew up with. She does not allow there to be any laziness or bad habits, such as eating in the kitchen. Fernanda wants the house to be as formal and regal as possible. She wants to "rule" over the Buendias and impose her ideals because her chance of doing so being queen was taken away from her. Fernanda's imposing actions are a reaction of her destiny of queen being taken away from her during childhood.
"but when she lost her sight and the weight of her years relegated her to a corner, the circle of rigidity begun by Fernandad from the moment she arrived finally closed completely and no one but she determined the destiny of the family" (211). This quote displays the final shift in power within the Buendia household. Because Fernanda is unable to adapt to the family's culture and tradition, she uses Ursula's diminished state to assume power over the rules of the house. With this new-found sense of authority, Fernanda begins purging all of the Buendia traditions that she deems improper. She draws attention away from the prestigious heritage of the Buendias by instating her father as the patriarchal figure in the family.
23 comments:
This quote is found on page 211. "In spite of the visible hostility of the family, Fernanda did not give up her drive to impose the customs of her ancestors." Going from a very aristocratic family to the Buendia's was a huge jump for Fernanda. Like her great- grandmother, she has always wanted to become queen. Taken into the Buendia household, she tries to still achieve this dream by placing her family's customs on the Buendia family. She tries to influence the Buendia family by changing the household from a once calm and relaxing place to an aristocratic structure causing chaos among the family.
by Kate Lonergan B period
" Even Ursula's superstitions, with origins that came from an inspiration of the momnent them form tradition, came into conflict with those of Fernanda, who had inherited them from her parents adn kept them defined and cataloged for every occasion.(page 211)" Fernanda is the only women who has entered the Buendia family and sustained her role in the family, along with making a change in the family, specifically in their traditions. By bringing new tratitions into the Buendia family Fernanda is causing a "break" in the family's cycle ofrepeating past actions. The fact that Fernanda catalogs her family's traditions shows that she is respectful of her traditions and very headstrong for trying to impose her traditions onto the Buendia family.
I do not really have a quote, but I do agree with what Kate had to say about Fernanda. To take her analysis maybe a bit further, I would say that Fernanda is another example of the Buendia family rejecting another outside presence from influencing their lives. Fernanda tries very hard to instill into them her very religious and aristocratic values, but they just won't, or couldn't accept them as their own. This point is even accentuated by the fact that Aureliano Segundo keeps his relationship going with Petra. This is just another example, or symbol even, of the Buendia family clinging to their past, rather than looking ahead to the future and the new ideas that have fallen upon Macondo.
by Dylan Hruska, B Period
This quote is found on page 211. "Even Ursula's superstitions, with origins that came more from an inspiration of the moment than from tradition, came into conflict with those of Fernanda, who had inherited them from her parents and kept them defined and cataloged for every occasion." The Buendia family line has been based upon superstitions and cautions since the founding of Macondo and the fear the family held when it came to incest. Fernanda's family is very matter of fact about anything which could be interpreted as hazy or not quite clear in its reasoning. These two ideas collide when Fernanda enters the Buendia household and show how Fernanda attempts to take over as the "queen" of the house and make everything perfect as she sees fit, while Ursula sees the world in a looser fashion and is appalled by the strictness of Fernanda's impositions on the household. This shows the conflict between the two family traditions and how Fernanda truly does not fit into the Buendia household in any aspect.
"But when the first daughter was born she expressed her unreserved determination to name her Renata after her mother...Fernanda went on calling her just Renata while her husband's family and everyone in town called her Meme..." (212)
Fernanda's insistence to name her daughter after her mother further demonstrates her complete resolve to instill her family's traditional values into her new life. However, as shown by the Buendia family's rejection of Renata as a name, no matter how hard Fernanda tries, she will not be able to be a complete part of the Buendia family. Their resistance any 'outsiders' exemplifies their complete and utter solitude. Fernanda can do nothing to become an integral part of the Buendias, so she ends up constantly fighting against the family in a fruitless attempt to implement her customs. Her persistence despite little success truly demonstrates her iron will to maintain the facade that she is still important and powerful.
By Kristie How B Period
"the circle of rigidity begun by Fernanda from the moment she arrived finally closed completely and no one but she determined the destiny of the family." pg 211. When Fernanda first came into the family, she was not used to such a loose family structure, she was used to the strict and structured family life. Because Fernanda is only used to that strictness, she tries to apply and enforce some of this when she comes into the Buendia family. she can not really accomplish this while Ursula is still the head of the family, but Ursula is getting old and becoming incapable of running the family. This quote explains how Fernanda takes position as soon as she sees a clear shot, and when Ursula is too old and has to step aside. Fernanda now tries to change the Buendia's family structure to more of the family structure she grew up with.
"the circle of rigidity begun by Fernanda from the moment she arrived finally closed completely and no one but she (Ursula) determined the destiny of the family" (221).
The arrival of Fernanda causes tension in the Buendia house. The crucial example of this tension is the reaction Ursula takes to the values and beliefs Fernanda attempts to bring into the family. This conflict between the two characters brings out a major similarity that Ursula and Fernanda share. Marquez has been using very similar characters and character names throughout the 100 year period to show the little change that happens inside the family while there surroundings change greatly. Now, for the first time, a character is compared to Ursula, the allknowing powerful leader of the Buendias. This character comparison reveals a future that Fernanda has as becoming the leader of the Buendia offspring.
"In spite of the visible hostility of the family, Fernanda did not give up her drive to impose the customs of her ancestors." (211)
This quote displays Fernanda's relentless attempt to the change the ways of the Buendia family. In her attempt to formalize and Christianize the Buendias, it is clear that her upbringing was far different than her current life in Macondo. She was raised and schooled in an extremely religious and strict environment and she brings this element of the outside world into Macondo. To me, Fernanda’s character is another example of the outside world “contaminating” or harming a perfectly fine Macando.
“One day you will be queen.” (206)
Fernanda’s mother told her when she was a child that she was going to become a queen, and this idea completely embodies Fernanda’s attitude when she comes to Macondo. She is always trying to impose her will on the family and the town, as she believes that everyone should follow her way of life because she is the “queen” and her way of life is “better”. For example, as the new “queen” of the Buendias, she determines that the making of small candy animals was an “unworthy activity” and she made sure it was stopped.
“In spite of the visible hostility of the family, Fernanda did not give up her drive to impose the customs of her ancestors” (211). This quote shows how Fernanda came from a wealthy, aristocratic family, who always told her she would become queen one day. Later on in the novel, after she marries Aureliano Segundo, partly from her family and her environment, Fernanda is described as religious and prude. Even though she no longer lives with her family, she still implements her upper-class views into the relaxed BuendÃa household, transforming the household unpleasantly and strictly.
"Fernanda carried a delicate calendar with small golden keys on which her spiritual adviser had marked in purple ink the dates of venereal abstinence. Not counting Holy Week, Sundays, holy days of obligation, first Fridays, retreats, sacrifices, and cyclical impediments, her effective year was reduced to 42 days that were spread out through a web of purple crosses." (208-209) This passage shows how important organized Catholicism is to Fernanda. This as well as her aristocratic livelihood is what Fernanda tries to impose on the Buendia family who does not respond well at all to her attempts.
I know that a lot of people have used this quote the quote on page 211 best describes Fernanda, "In spite of the visible hostility of the family, Fernanda did not give up her drive to impose the customs of her ancestors." Fernanda was raised to an aristocratic family and her very haughty personality represents this. She tries to maintain these family customs in the household of the Buendia family. She also tries to bring her religious background to the family altogether changing it into an aristocratic house of pandemonium. She also wants to eventually become a queen which is her motivation for turning the Buendia house to the basis of her old family customs.
-John Oppenheimer
-F period
"the circle of rigidity begun by Fernanda from the moment she arrived finally closed completly and no one but she determined the destiny of the family" page 211
I was just looking at the diction in this quote and noticed a few things. The words "rigidity" and "closed completly" characterize Fernanda perfectly. She always seems to be tence and unwilling to let outside forces effect her life. She is a very solitary person, whose life only makes sence if there is a strictness to it. This is why she tries to enforce her traditions on the Buendia's. Fernanda can't survive in a world without rules and controll because she has no creativity and no personality.
“Fernanda was a woman who was lost in the world…Until puberty she had no news of the world” (205). This quote shows how just like the Buendias, Fernanda lives in solidarity. I think she tries to impose her customs upon the Buendia family because since she grows up in isolation, she has no concept of diverse lifestyles. She is just trying to maintain some normality as the world of Macondo around her is becoming increasingly modern.
i chose a quote that relates to the quote almost everyone used on page 211. "The business in the pastries and small candy animals that Santa Sofia de la Piedad had kept up because of Ursula's wishes was considered an unworthy activity by Fernanda and she lost no time in putting a stop to it" (211) This quote represents Fernanda's determination to instill her families aristocratic tradition into the Buendia family. She does not want any relative to continue their own traditions. This is why she tries to stop the pastry and candy making. Ursula, having gone blind, can no longer bake and so her Sofia graciously is continuing her hobby.
"At first Fernanda did not talk about her family, but in time she began to idealize her father. She spoke of him at the table as an exceptional being who had renounced all forms of vanity and was on his way to becoming a saint." (pg. 212) Fernanda was brought up in a household that was supposed to be great but her family's status is fading but given her unremitting desire for greatness, she refuses to accept the decline of aristocracy in her family. With her and Aureliano Segundo already on rocky terms, this unrealistic belief that her family is so great causes him and the rest of the family to mock her. This causes even more separation between her and the rest of the Buendia family and she continues to try to mold the Buendia family into an aristocratic household and fails miserable.
"in spite of the visible hostility of the family, Fernanda did not give up her drive to impose the customs of her ancestors." I think that this quote show how much Fernanda refuses to conform to the traditions and customs of the Buendia family. She tries to impose her own customs(eating in the dining room) either because she thinks her way is the better way or she is scared of change. She tries to make the Buendia family more like what her family used to be like, but this only leads to the family rejecting another outsider.
"Until the day of her wedding she dreamed about a legendary kingdom, in spite of the fact that her father, Don Fernando, had to mortgage the house in order to buy her trousseau. It was not innocence or delusions of grandeur. That was how they had brought her up." (206)
This quote describes how easily Fernanda grew up. She got everything she wanted, whether it hurt her family or not (the mortgage they had to get), she didn't care. All she cares about it herself and she is very independent in that sense. Although sometimes she feels deep down that she wants to fit in, like be a part of the Buendia family, she somehow finds a way to subtly push herself away because of how she learned to grow up, by sitting alone at school and not conversing with anyone. You can tell a lot about a person by how they grew up.
"she put an end to the custom of eating in the kitchen and whenever anyone was hungry, and she imposed the obligation of doing it at regular hours at the large table in the dining room" p. 211 This quote demonstrates the obvious intrusion of customs inflicted upon by Fernanda. Her imposition on the family reveals her true character who believes that her ideals are superior to those of the Buendia family. This sense of superiority reinforces her family's history of aristocracy.
“But when she lost her sight and the weight of her years relegated her to a corner, the circle of rigidity begun by Fernanda from the moment she arrived finally closed completely and no one but she determined the destiny of the family”(228). Fernanda’s persistent determination to change the Buendia is shown as she insists on bring her own culture and way of life the Buendia household. As Ursula’s faculties begin to fail her Fernanda begins to impose her whims about the household, deciding what is best for the family members as well as how the house should be run. Fernanda stubbornness to convert the Buendia household to be more like her own slowly starts to take effect as the Buendia’s eventually start to give in.
"In spite of the visible hostility of the family, Fernanda did not give up her drive to impose the customs of her ancestors." Before marrying Aureliano Segundo, Fernanda's family was extremely wealthy and definitely played the part. Her mother always told her that she was going to be the queen someday, and this ideology rubbed off on her. Now every chance she has, Fernanda implements her own beliefs and customs into the Buendia household. Fernanda's influence causes the solitude that once represented the Buendia house and family turn upside down to a place of chaos and confusion.
-spencer Myers B period
"The circle of rigidity begun by Fernanda from the moment she arrived finally closed completely and no one but she determined the destiny of the family." (p.211)
Fernanda grew up in an aristocratic lifestyle one day believing she would become queen. However, her family name lost its prominence and as her wealth began to dwindle she lost claim to the thrown. Her destiny of what she believed to be a lavish lifestyle being queen was gone. The moment Fernanda moves into the House of Buendias she imposes a strict and rigid rule similar to the one which she grew up with. She does not allow there to be any laziness or bad habits, such as eating in the kitchen. Fernanda wants the house to be as formal and regal as possible. She wants to "rule" over the Buendias and impose her ideals because her chance of doing so being queen was taken away from her. Fernanda's imposing actions are a reaction of her destiny of queen being taken away from her during childhood.
"but when she lost her sight and the weight of her years relegated her to a corner, the circle of rigidity begun by Fernandad from the moment she arrived finally closed completely and no one but she determined the destiny of the family" (211). This quote displays the final shift in power within the Buendia household. Because Fernanda is unable to adapt to the family's culture and tradition, she uses Ursula's diminished state to assume power over the rules of the house. With this new-found sense of authority, Fernanda begins purging all of the Buendia traditions that she deems improper. She draws attention away from the prestigious heritage of the Buendias by instating her father as the patriarchal figure in the family.
Post a Comment