The House Of Spirts

From a novel or play choose a character whose mind is pulled in

confusing directions by two compelling desires, ambitions,

obligations, or influences. In, an essay, identify each of he two

conflicting forces and explain how this is conflict within

one-character illuminates the meaning of the work as a whole.

“Alba’s name was entered in the civil registry and in the books of

the parish with her father’s French surname, but she never used it

because her mother’s was much spell. Her grandfather, Esteban Trueba,

did not approve of this bad habit. As he said every time he was given

the opportunity, he had gone to a lot of trouble to be sure the child

would have a known a father and a more respectable name and would not

have to use her mother’s as if she were a child of shame and sin”

(395). Alba is the illegitimate child of Blanca who had fallen in

love with a rebel despised by her father. As a young girl Alba knew

not of her father and as time passed she also fell in love with a

rebel, Miguel. To obey her grandfather, whom she loved dearly, or to

follow her heart, as her mother always said is a conflict Alba faces

s. His pursuit for justice and his love for Alba also conflicts with

it is this passion that unites and formulates a strong bond between

towards his granddaughter. Esteban’s love for his granddaughter

cause he began to force his love and attention that Clara avoided

times when she would have been delighted to escape her grandmother’s

Some topics in this essay:
House Spirits, Esteban Trueba, Reflection Looking, Isabel Allende, Clara Allende, Alba Miguel, love rebel, house spirits, , fall love rebel, fallen love rebel, alba’s struggle, fall love, fallen love, rebel miguel, follow heart, political cause, alba found, alba’s grandfather,