The Struggle In The House Of Spirits By Isabel Allende
The Chilean American writer, Isabel Allende is best known for her novels The House of Spirits, Eva Luna, Paula and Daughter of Fortune. Allende throughout her lifetime has also been the author of several short stories and the participated in the act of writing plays as a youth. The stories she conveys mix together the elements of myth and realism and are also all projected from a feminine point of view; full of drama, romance, and the struggle that many women face in reality. Isabel Allende’s novels represent her life struggles through the stark divide of the events in Chile before and after the 1973 Coup D’état and also through her fractured family life growing up as a young girl; her life’s hardships led to her becoming a feminist activist
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Allende began in the workforce as a secretary and then worked her way towards becoming a journalist. After sometime she had worked her way up to becoming a starring journalist in the magazine, Paula. This magazine was debuted in Chile and other parts of South America; Allende was not only a journalist in this magazine but she was also the editor and advice columnist. It was only through her many years as a journalist that she developed her sense of opinions in not only politics, but the way that women were being treated by men in the Chilean societies. This was the time in Allende’s life that her feministic opinions began to surface in her …show more content…
History and culture have influenced the way in which she writes about her experiences. The political realm, therefore, is in role conflict with this image. There is the perception that women are passive in political issues. It can be concluded that Allende’s past memories of her growing up in a patriarchy filled society had a direct impact on her once young soul. As Allende grew up and moved on from her past roots and became an American citizen she realized that women and feminism is a problem that needs to be surfaced all over the world. Allende has been brave enough to make women empowering stories that draw the attention to the real problems and also the life lessons that need to be learned in order to live a successful life. Isabel Allende can be seen as a feminism hero in this day and age, just by looking at what she has done with her life when she barely started with anything to be the successful and powerful woman that she is to this
Allende began in the workforce as a secretary and then worked her way towards becoming a journalist. After sometime she had worked her way up to becoming a starring journalist in the magazine, Paula. This magazine was debuted in Chile and other parts of South America; Allende was not only a journalist in this magazine but she was also the editor and advice columnist. It was only through her many years as a journalist that she developed her sense of opinions in not only politics, but the way that women were being treated by men in the Chilean societies. This was the time in Allende’s life that her feministic opinions began to surface in her …show more content…
History and culture have influenced the way in which she writes about her experiences. The political realm, therefore, is in role conflict with this image. There is the perception that women are passive in political issues. It can be concluded that Allende’s past memories of her growing up in a patriarchy filled society had a direct impact on her once young soul. As Allende grew up and moved on from her past roots and became an American citizen she realized that women and feminism is a problem that needs to be surfaced all over the world. Allende has been brave enough to make women empowering stories that draw the attention to the real problems and also the life lessons that need to be learned in order to live a successful life. Isabel Allende can be seen as a feminism hero in this day and age, just by looking at what she has done with her life when she barely started with anything to be the successful and powerful woman that she is to this