Isabel Allende was born in 1942 in Peru, although her ethnicity is Chilean. After her parents' divorce, Allende returned to Chile to complete her high school education. She married her first husband, Miguel Frias, in 1962 at the age of 20. Their daughter Paula was born a year later, during the time Allende spent in Europe working with the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization. Upon her return to Chile she began to establish herself as a journalist, writing for a...
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Loss and suffering are painful yet they are part of our everyday experiences. The loss of loved ones, isolation from our family and friends, and suffering in the hands of gangs and authorities all encompass the tragic experiences we encounter on a...
Francis Scott Fitzgerald, a celebrated U.S. author, once alleged, "Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal" (1927). The Trueba...
German philosopher Friedrich Engels once said “All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development”. In all societies, each social class has unique characteristics and distinctions,...
Liberal feminism, the typical feminist perspective of both genders having equal opportunities, has more to it than just that. There are several other aspects and beliefs of liberal feminism that are not known to the general public. Allende offers...
Lust is defined as ‘a passionate desire for something’ although often associated with sex; lust can also be directed towards power and control. Isabel Allende’s novel The House of The Spirits unfolds in Latin America and follows the complex lives...
Isabel Allende’s The House of the Spirits is a whirlwind of color, sound, and magic, set in the midst of Chile’s 1970 socialist revolution. Although the novel paints a lucid portrait of Chile in tragedy, I would like to focus on the conclusively...
The female characters in Isabel Allende’s novel, House of the Spirits, are generally depicted as the stronger of the sexes. It becomes apparent to the reader very early on that the author has a lot of respect for women; this is manifested in the...
The primary ideal of a psychoanalytic reading is that literary texts are similar to dreams because they are both manifestations of a person's psyche, and can be analysed in order to discover the author's unconscious meanings. Eva Luna, written by...
An Ideology is a system of ideas beliefs and attitudes. They can lead to motivated reasoning, the subconscious desire not to find the truth, but to defend the version of reality that makes us feel most validated. In truth, an ideology is an...
