'The Female Role in a Male Dominated Society\r'

'Wo hands be sometimes undermined by the close in which they live in. Only recently scram they begun to be looked at as near equals to men and given a voice. Still, in some countries women may be pushed aside and left without a regularize in important decision-making. In the momentous new The House of the booze, by Isabel Allende, the wife of each extension is a matriarch in her family. Individually they hiking above cultural trends, and their husbands or lovers, to exercise the occurrence that women argon important. Women can be as all-powerful as men, even so in a male-dominated society.\r\nThis is wherefore Nivea, Clara, Blanca, and Alba come across their voices and actions heard during difficult times in a developing country. American women were willing to go to extreme lengths to make their voice heard and procure the remedy to vote. Their efforts did not go unnoticed. News articles utter that â€Å"Their issues are legitimate and cut across socioeconomic and p arty lines,” (Brenner,1-2) and that the Suffragist’s would be willing to assume an all night vigile to make sure their right to vote was no longer delayed(New York Times, 1). The House of the Spirits takes place in Chile during the 1900’s.\r\nThe story begins in the Del Valle household. Nivea is the current matriarch. She is a firm believer in women’s suffrage and equality. Nivea was the first woman of the refreshed to display her affection towards the underprivileged. She stood on crates and boxes to preach to the hard-working women wearying rags and working in factories that paid next to nothing. She brings Clara along with her after discovering that her family does everything they can to avoid Clara’s precognitive powers. Nivea and her suffragette friend inspire Clara at a little age to understand and grasp the absurdity of the issue.\r\nHer trends are absorbed by the following generations of women in her family. Esteban Trueba is Claraâ€⠄¢s husband, an angry man who is violent to his many workers and doesn’t take rule from any adept. His success and authority of Tres Marias, his stupefy’s old hacienda, turned him into a lubber skinned man that not many hatful had control over. His bring’s death causes him to, one day, look for a wife. Esteban decides to go to the Del Valle house and call for about a daughter able to get hitched with him. Nivea offers him Clara, her last available daughter (88-89). Clara instantly has a power over Esteban.\r\nHer laugh and her smile are astonishing to Esteban Trueba, her beauty takes over him and he decides to splice her (90-91). Though Esteban is a dominating character he finds that he is unable to control Clara. I cherished to possess her absolutely, downwards to her last thought, but that perspicuous woman would float by me like a breath of fresh air, and even if I held her down with my hands and embraced her with all my strength, I could never make her mine. Her spirit wasn’t with me. (Allende, 177) Clara’s place as Esteban’s wife, and only love, capture him completely.\r\nShe was the only somebody that could influence him and the only person that he would list to. At one point he even changes the currency used on Tres Marias, a ground forbidden strictly to Esteban Trueba’s rule, because Clara feels that it would be nicer for the tenant’s to have a form of wallpaper money. Esteban indeed stops handing the tenant’s ping slips and begins paying them with real money (178). Blanca and Alba are mother and daughter, both who have lovers involved in a revolution against the Conservative Government.\r\n'