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 challeng...