Isabel Allende, a Chilean novelist, illustrates the spectacular glow of the feminine influence on the power of patriarchy, despite the male refusal to acknowledge it as it's equal, by employing the use of magical realism, a modern Latin American literary tradition, with in her masterwork, The House of the Spirits, paralleling the magical realist work of Gabriel Garcia Marquez who discourses on the decay of absolute patriarchal power, as seen in Autumn of the Patriarch. ... In Autumn of the Patriarch, Gabriel Garcia Marquez's paralleling figure, the General, is haunted by similar e...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Isabel Allende's The House of the Spirits, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Chronicle of a Death Foretold, depict that the power of men had is actually an illusion. ... From these actions and thoughts, it can be seen that both books have created a setting where the male are physically dominating the women due to their sexual need. ... Alba was the only one that remained near Esteban Trueba and cared for him, however, Esteban Garcia took her away. This balances the pain that Esteban Trueba had on Esteban Garcia's mother. ... However, this tension is also resolved it the reader make...

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