Ramifications of Love in "Love in the Time of Cholera" by Márquez

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Are There Ramifications of Love in ‘Love in the Time of Cholera, by Gabriel Garcia Márquez?’
Introduction
As the title indicates, love is a key element in Gabriel Garcia Márquez’s work, Love in the Time of Cholera. Florentino Ariza and Dr. Juvenal Urbino are in a passionate love triangle with Fermina Daza. Fermina marries Dr. Juvenal Urbino even though she knows Florentino loves her more. This story is also unique in daring to propose that love promises made under the concept of everlasting youthful stupidity to some may still be respected, much later in life when we should know better, in the face of the unquestionable, as one of the book critics debates. According to another critic, Love in the Time of Cholera is a study of the great love with all of its implications and connotations. Florentino Ariza, Fermina Daza, and Dr. Juvenal Urbino all have unique opinions on the love that has shaped their lives.
Analysis
In this novel, Márquez depicts two sides of love: the physical aspect of love and the overwhelming emotional side of love. One of the characters replaces emotional love with physical love in the absence of emotional love. Márquez also depicts love outside of the norms of society. Throughout the novel, some people are engaging in clandestine love encounters (Brancato 201). For example, while dealing with his midlife crisis, Dr. Juvenal Urbino begins an affair.
To deal with unrequited love, Florentino enters into a long-term relationship. Florentino Ariza has always had his heart set for Fermina Daza, a well-known woman who is married to Dr. Juvenal Urbino, a well-known guy, despite having hundreds of relationships. Florentino and Fermina Daza had a brief relationship before realizing it was all a ruse (Márquez 102). I first observed signals of affection when she married Dr. Juvenal Urbino. “When she realized she’d just gorged herself on two heaping bowls of pureed eggplant” (Márquez 220). Fermina, who previously despised eggplants, finds herself falling in love with them all of a sudden. I saw Dr. Juvenal Urbino as the eggplant in this scene, with Fermina despising him at first but eventually growing to love him without realizing it. This demonstrates that she married Urbino not out of desire or greed but because she believed she would love him despite her hate for him. Unlike Florentino, she did not need a car to crash into her in the face to know how fake their ‘love’ was. She was well aware that she did not love him and that she was only using him since she appreciated his writings and lovely appearance. All she felt, in the end, was sorrow for him.
Florentino is a love victim in Love in the Time of Cholera. Fermina’s rejection of his love has profound psychological, emotional, and cultural consequences for him. For a few years, Fermina replies to his affections, and this intensifies his feelings. She stops loving him all of a sudden, yet he loves her for the rest of his life. Florentino knows that he cannot stop himself from falling in love with her, and it’s destroying him (Gwyn 202). Nevertheless, he accepts the challenge and vows to keep an eye on her till he has another opportunity to visit her.
In Love in the Time Cholera, love looks to be terrible and hopeless. Florentino is a hopeless romantic who has spent his entire life suffering from love. He tries harder than anyone to gain Fermina, but it just causes him grief. “Florentino Ariza wrote every night; at some point, he comes to relish his agony” (Singh 201). He showed no remorse as he poisoned himself, letter after letter, with the smoke from the palm oil lamps. After Fermina quits him, he tries in vain to find work overseas (Brancato 209). Fermina’s health worsens when he leaves the place where he resides. After Fermina decides to marry Dr. Juvenal Urbino, he becomes very ill with symptoms that resemble cholera. Love appears to be a disease capable of consuming and destroying a person. Florentino is so overwhelmed by the love in this scenario that he becomes crazy. Even when he ceases writing directly to Fermina, he continues to write about her (Ballvé 208). His feelings for Fermina Daza begin to have an impact on his work. He writes to Fermina so many times that he believes it’s the only way he’ll ever be able to write. Florentino reappears “fifty-one years, nine months, and four days later,” assuring Fermina of his undying love on the 51st anniversary of her husband’s death.
Fermina seemed to be perplexed by the concept of love. Florentino begins a covert connection with her, but she quickly recognizes that he is not the right man for her. Because he is her first love, it appears thrilling at first. Florentino and Hilderbranda push her to begin a love affair with someone she doesn’t know (Brancato 210). Her ideal man is someone who can provide her with a happy existence. However, she is uninterested in love, which is why her relationship with Dr. Juvenal Urbino remains stale. Fermina suppresses her feelings for love. Florentino’s love has a range of effects on her relationship with Dr. Juvenal Urbino, which shows he has a lot of similarities to her first love.
Márquez introduces Dr. Juvenal Urbino to stand in the way of the two loves. He throws a wrench in the relationship of two young lovers who are head over heels in love. He is unable to have a romantic relationship since he is a doctor. He loves nothing more than his work, which is why he does not retire till he dies. Because of his mentality and background, he does not demonstrate his love for his wife (Gwyn 202). “He married her because he admired her arrogance, dedication, and power, as well as some vanity on his side.” Their relationship is not romantic in the least. Even their honeymoon appears to be a lesson on anatomy. Fermina responds, “Let’s not continue with the medical lecture.”
In Love in the Time of Cholera, Dr. Juvenal Urbino’s multiple identities make love appear to be a bit difficult. Fermina’s affair with Dr. Juvenal Urbino starts with a medical checkup and ends with her treating him like a child. “The fact is that Juvenal Urbino’s suit was never carried out in the name of love,” Fermina admits, “and it was strange, to say the least, for a devout Catholic like him to give her only worldly goods: stability, order, comfort, and numbers that may almost be love” (Mambrol 202). But they’re not in love, and her reservations only added to her confusion because she did not believe she needed love to survive.”
Their partnership exemplifies love in the way that most couples do in today’s culture. In the narrative, there appear to be a lot of unhappy married ladies. Women are more likely than males to be unfaithful. Dr. Juvenal Urbino, on the other hand, has an affair with another woman. Fermina forgives him since she has come to anticipate the worst from him. Dr. Juvenal Urbino, Fermina Daza, and Florentino Ariza all have distinct perspectives on love. Fermina marries a man she does not love to have a happy life. While waiting for another chance to be with his only love, Florentino seeks sexual connections with women he does not care about. Dr. Juvenal Urbino values himself and his work above anything else.
Florentino Ariza, on the other hand, strives bravely but fails to win Fermina’s heart. Instead, he would seek refuge in passion, dating a variety of women. “He was 56 years old and well-preserved, and he considered them well-lived since they were years of love,” the author writes (Márquez 259). According to this passage of the novel, Florentino was living in a world of desire rather than love. At several points during the story, Florentino professed to love the women he slept with. However, in reality, he was just interested in their bodies and seducing them with his charisma (Brancato 211). We can finally tell that he means desire when he says “love...