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A 5 page research that examines the characterization of Esteban, the male protagonist in Isabel Allende's House of the Spirits. The writer argues that while the narrative is told primarily through the voices of two of the female protagonists, in many ways, an occasional narrator of the tale, Esteban Trueba, is the true focus of the novel. Arrogant and manipulative, Estaban has an overpowering desire to dominate, subjugate and control his environment and every person who happens to share it with him. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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two of the female protagonists. However, in many ways, an occasional narrator of the tale, Esteban Trueba, is the true focus of the novel. Arrogant and manipulative, Estaban has an
overpowering desire to dominate, subjugate and control his environment and every person who happens to share it with him. A closer examination at the characterization of this novel demonstrates that
Allende focuses consistently on Estebans obsession with political power and control, and the various ways in which this urge for control affects his own family, and his hacienda.
Early in life, Esteban was determined to build a political career, built on the perception that himself as the ideal Conservative Party family patriarch (The
House of Spirits). His plans are first thwarted by the accidental death of his betrothed, Rosa. Clara, Rosas sister, is devastated by Rosas death, particularly since her psychic powers warned
her of disaster. Clara enters a period of self-imposed silence that ends when she announces that she will marry her sisters fianc?, Esteban.
Having married and established a family, Estaban finds that circumstance and the nature of his family complicate his political ambitions. He has to cope with a suffragette mother-in-law, an
unstable sister, Claras calm acceptance of all sort of psychic phenomenon as well as his countrys political passage from the rule of a chosen elite to rule by the people,
and back to elite rule. Throughout the narrative, the autocratic rule of Esteban is contrasted sharply with the subtler ways that the females in this culture employ for asserting their
individuality. Nevertheless, their small subversions do little to alter the general framework within which the family functions, which is determined -- at least on the surface --
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