In the "Judges Wife", "Nicolas Vidal had always known a woman would cost him his life". (203) This prediction had made him avoid any serious relationships with women throughout his life which also him to a lonely life and never fulfill his desires. To avoid women, Vidal surrounded himself with all men who were outside the law and led dangerous lives. Living this life style made it hard for any woman to get attached to Vidal. But Vidal could not seem to get Casilda out of his mind. Every other girl, he quickly forgot about, but when it came to Casilda he seemed to remember every small detail, for example "the translucent young girl i

n her traveling suit, with bashful eyes and delicate fingers". (203) Vidal also sat and watched her marriage to Judge Hildago, a curious thing to do because Hildago can put Vidal in jail. Allende sets all this up to show that Vidal is trying to find freedom from his desire for love and intimacy, but he can?t resist his desires. Allende writes, "Nicolas Vidal fled from love his whole life?", but in the end of the story, Vidal gives in to his desire to love another woman and this eventually will cost him his life. He could have run away after raping Casilda but instead stays because he has finally found love and he is willing to give up his life for it. He tried to find freedom from his desire to love another woman, but in the end he couldn?t run away and gave into his desires and this cost Vidal his life.

Casilda is another person looking to find freedom from her desires. She married Judge Hildago who "was several times her age, and had slept alone for so many years, that he did not know how to begin to please a woman". (204) This marriage was surely for Casilda just a marriage of convenience, for a girl who wanted to live comfortably and securely. She brought her kids up in a rich household where they could be well fed and schooled. She never truly loved him, because he could never truly satisfy her intimately. For a young girl growing to adulthood, she must have wanted to be satisfied sexually, something a man like Judge

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