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...

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