Love in the Time of Cholera 霍乱时期的爱情

Spiritual Love VS Physical Love
• Which one will you choose? • When talking about love, this kind of questions are often asked. Here I would like to say that no matter which one you will choose, the happiness of love is the most important thing. Just like the woman character Fermina, she finally chose to marry Dr Urbino to become a fairy lady with high social status and she gave up the love to Florentino. But she was not happy. She was regretful for her choice, for her marriage was just prosaic like water and she hoped to have a love with lots of passion. So after her husband's death, she decided to be together with Florentino. • So make the right chocie, be happy.
• Finally Fermina married Dr Urbino and became a noble lady as her father wished her to be. But after their marriage, the doctor also had love affair with another woman. • Only after Urbino’s death, did Florentino re-examine his love to Fermina, then he gradually use his words in the love letters to regain their love. In a journey on a ship, both the old man and woman found themselves falling in love with each other again. Fermina was afraid that it would cause scandals, so the captain raised a yellow flag, which stood for cholera. And then they had a journey of their love without disturbing.
• When Florentino and Fermina was young, they exchanged a lot of love letters for 3 years and even decided to get married. But her father did not agree her to marry a poor man so he brought Fermina back to countryside for one year in order to let her forget Florentino. • When Fermina returned back to the city and met Florentino again, she told Florentino that he should forget her and she realized that what between them was nothing more than an illusion. • However, Florentino decided to keep the desire on her and keep virginity until they eventually got together. But in order to decrease his miss to Fermina, he began to find women and had a self-indulgence life. But he never forgot her even for a minute.
El Amor En Los Tiempos Del Colera
Plot Summary
• The novel began with Dr Juvenal Urbino, who came to examine his best friend Jeremiah Saint-Amour’s body. Amour committed suicide when he was 60 year old in order not to grow older. When Dr Urbino went back home, he found his beloved pet parrot escaped to the top of a mango tree. When he tired to save it, he fell from the ladder and died. • Florentino Ariza chose to confess his love to Urbino’s wife, Fermina Daza at that time. But Fermina refused because of his abruptness and her feelings in the bottom of the heart.
Entreat me not to leave you, or to return from following after you, For where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay Your people will be my people, and your God will be my God. And where you die, I will die and there I will be buried. May the Lord do with me and more if anything but death parts you from me. 我恳求上帝不要让我离开你，让我永远跟随你的脚步。 因为你到哪里我便去到哪里，你在哪里停留我也在哪里停留。 你的亲友就是我的亲友，你的主也将成为我的主。 你在哪里死去，我就同你一起埋葬在那里。 就让主降罚于我， 因为除了死亡，再多的灾难也不能将你我分开。
• It is considered as a non-traditional love story as lovers find love in their seventies, when death is all around them. • Love in the Time of Cholera is based on the stories of two couples. The young love of Fermina Daza and Florentino Ariza is based on the love affair of Garcí Má a rquez's parents. However, as he explains in an interview: “The only difference is my parents married. And as soon as they were married, they were no longer interesting as literary figures.” The love of old people is based on a newspaper story about the death of two Americans, who were almost 80 years old and were each married to other people but they met every year in the same place. They were out in a boat one day and were murdered by the boatman. Garcí Má a rquez notes, “Through their death, the story of their secret romance became known to others. I was fascinated by them.”
Can you imagine a love without marriage but lasted for more than half a century?
wБайду номын сангаасitten by Garcia Marquez
This is his first novel after he won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
• "There is nothing more difficult than love." • -- Garcia Marquez • "The only regret I have in dying is that I do not die for love." -- Florentino Ariza • "The crux of social life is to learn to control fear, the crux of couples' life is to learn to control allergy."(社会 生活的症结在于学会控制胆怯，夫妻生活的症结在 于学会控制反感。) -- Dr Juvenal Urbino
"We will be together until the death separates us." This kind of sentence can be seen in many TV shows, especially in the scene of wedding.
Marriage Vow
• There are many kinds of love shown in the novel that human beings will experience: falling in love at the first sight(一见钟情), being passionately in love(热 恋), bitter love(苦恋), carrying a torch for someone(暗恋), love triangle(三角恋), spiritual love(精神恋爱), physical love(物欲之爱), noble love, menial love(卑微的爱) and so on.
When faced with true love, the death is not dreadful at all. This is what Fermina and Florentino showing to us. The two lovers are old and death is around them. But they still choose to get together no matter how the society thinks about them.