1. The House of the Spirits
Isabel Allende, in The House of the Spirits, uses this style of writing to outline Chile's tumultuous past as well as to provide her own social commentary on the current state of society. ... Reading The House of the Spirits one can see that more and more problems seem to accumulate over time, and the quality of life never really improves. ... The House of the Spirits provides new perspectives on the way we view progress, especially in its relationship to technology and modernization. ...
English Honors Philip Rosenberg Reading Journal October 24th, 2002 Chile and The House of the Spirits During the early 20th century Chile was separated into a higher class and a lower class without much in between. ... These historical events are mirrored in the novel The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende through the Trueba Families triumphs, afflictions, and day to day life. The major characters in The House of the Spirits come from two opposing classes, the aristocracy and the peasants. ... Simply by making class struggle a major theme of th...
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. ... In House of the Spirits, when Esteban Trueba went to Tres Marias, "he left not [one] girl pass from puberty to adulthood that he did not subject to the woods-(Allende 63). ... In The House of the Spirits, "he did not know she had seen her own destiny, that she had summoned him with the power of her thought, and that she had already made up her mind to marry without love...