Write an essay on love in the time of cholera
Love in the Time of Cholera, as the title indicates, interweaves experiences of love with
those of disease and sickness. Why does the novel suggest that love = cholera? What does it
imply about the nature of passion? Establish through examples what you understand this
metaphor to mean in the novel, and then analyze the relationships between the three principal
characters in the light of your definition. It will be crucial to your essay that you account for
the ending of the novel. How does Garcia Marquez resolve the paradoxes that follow from
understanding love as a disease? What are we as readers meant to learn from Fermina Daza’s
and Florentino Ariza’s decision to remain on that ship forever?