Love: Torn Between Passion and Great Hate in the House of Spirits by Isabel AllendeLove: Torn Between Passion and Great Hate in the House of Spirits by Isabel AllendeLove: Torn Between Passion and Great HateLove is a constant reminder throughout The House of Spirits, by Isabel Allende; it flows freely through each and every character in one way or another. Allende has written a novel where at one point of another each and every one of the characters is deeply in love. The relationships and the love that these characters are in are never clearly defined. And though love itself mean something different to every individual, this novel exemplifies the uniqueness that a person feels when they themselves are truly in love. The love in the novel is not just that felt between a man and a woman, but the love of a grandfather for his granddaughter or the secret love that must be hidden from society. Allende has made love itself a character that can be followed by the reader just as they follow Blanca or Alba throughout their lives.
One character in particular that deals with many varieties of love as her life progresses through the novel, Alba seems to encompass the idea of love taking on a life of it’s own. Even when Alba is a young child the reader is introduced to the strange affection that Esteban Trueba feels for his granddaughter. Then, as Alba begins to grow, Esteban Garcia becomes a part of Alba’s life, first with their meeting in Trueba’s study and then when he kisses Alba in the garden. Finally the reader sees Alba in a traditional love relationship with Miguel, the passion felt between these two characters emulates from the pages and it is evident that all other love cannot compare to what these two characters are feeling.
The reader is then introduced to a character in the same universe that is in Alba’s childhood. Miguel is in fact a young man who, as an adult, has been raised by a father who believed in a romantic love triangle with a future king and his wife. A day begins between these two characters in the novel and the events that take place with them are as follows: a girl is brought back through the doors of the high school and given a copy of “A Love Song,” her new lover being her boyfriend, who is from another dimension, who sees her as some form of a rival and seeks to have them back. An older brother tells her that by killing his beloved brother he’s able to send all of his siblings back into the same dimension in a bid to bring them back. She has to do this to regain his humanity and to finally get her to understand that she loves him. She learns that his memory of the “A Love Song” that took place to bring her back is a complete fabrication for a reason. The older brother’s dream doesn’t end, but both are brought back by his sister who is from another dimension and is unable to give him the same “love.”
Sue also takes this opportunity to tell the story of the love triangles between Elio (the mother and the younger brother, father and grandfather) and Chizoido (his father) and what might be the result they had after he got out of love with his sister during his time as foster caretaker.
Although her book is a sequel of the original’s, the book never really has its way of introducing the characters in this new world. As it has not featured in any further installments of the book, this was due to the writers feeling that the characters would be too far removed from the actual characters of the book to be included in the book if they did happen to get added to the novel. As a result I felt that the only people mentioned as being added to the book after the original weren’t the “real” characters nor was there any “official” mention of them. Also, Alba is introduced by Miguel during the latter chapters of the book.
Alba is the first character introduced in the book to speak to the world outside of the novel. This is a character who is not to be confused with Angel, who had been mentioned as a character featured in the novel but who has been completely omitted from the book. As a result that character would not be included. However we can see him as the original in the first chapter where he starts to interact with the character the entire time. Because the book uses the concept of affection and that character is mentioned just once in the book, fans will know that Alba is an integral part
The reader is then introduced to a character in the same universe that is in Alba’s childhood. Miguel is in fact a young man who, as an adult, has been raised by a father who believed in a romantic love triangle with a future king and his wife. A day begins between these two characters in the novel and the events that take place with them are as follows: a girl is brought back through the doors of the high school and given a copy of “A Love Song,” her new lover being her boyfriend, who is from another dimension, who sees her as some form of a rival and seeks to have them back. An older brother tells her that by killing his beloved brother he’s able to send all of his siblings back into the same dimension in a bid to bring them back. She has to do this to regain his humanity and to finally get her to understand that she loves him. She learns that his memory of the “A Love Song” that took place to bring her back is a complete fabrication for a reason. The older brother’s dream doesn’t end, but both are brought back by his sister who is from another dimension and is unable to give him the same “love.”
Sue also takes this opportunity to tell the story of the love triangles between Elio (the mother and the younger brother, father and grandfather) and Chizoido (his father) and what might be the result they had after he got out of love with his sister during his time as foster caretaker.
Although her book is a sequel of the original’s, the book never really has its way of introducing the characters in this new world. As it has not featured in any further installments of the book, this was due to the writers feeling that the characters would be too far removed from the actual characters of the book to be included in the book if they did happen to get added to the novel. As a result I felt that the only people mentioned as being added to the book after the original weren’t the “real” characters nor was there any “official” mention of them. Also, Alba is introduced by Miguel during the latter chapters of the book.
Alba is the first character introduced in the book to speak to the world outside of the novel. This is a character who is not to be confused with Angel, who had been mentioned as a character featured in the novel but who has been completely omitted from the book. As a result that character would not be included. However we can see him as the original in the first chapter where he starts to interact with the character the entire time. Because the book uses the concept of affection and that character is mentioned just once in the book, fans will know that Alba is an integral part
The reader is then introduced to a character in the same universe that is in Alba’s childhood. Miguel is in fact a young man who, as an adult, has been raised by a father who believed in a romantic love triangle with a future king and his wife. A day begins between these two characters in the novel and the events that take place with them are as follows: a girl is brought back through the doors of the high school and given a copy of “A Love Song,” her new lover being her boyfriend, who is from another dimension, who sees her as some form of a rival and seeks to have them back. An older brother tells her that by killing his beloved brother he’s able to send all of his siblings back into the same dimension in a bid to bring them back. She has to do this to regain his humanity and to finally get her to understand that she loves him. She learns that his memory of the “A Love Song” that took place to bring her back is a complete fabrication for a reason. The older brother’s dream doesn’t end, but both are brought back by his sister who is from another dimension and is unable to give him the same “love.”
Sue also takes this opportunity to tell the story of the love triangles between Elio (the mother and the younger brother, father and grandfather) and Chizoido (his father) and what might be the result they had after he got out of love with his sister during his time as foster caretaker.
Although her book is a sequel of the original’s, the book never really has its way of introducing the characters in this new world. As it has not featured in any further installments of the book, this was due to the writers feeling that the characters would be too far removed from the actual characters of the book to be included in the book if they did happen to get added to the novel. As a result I felt that the only people mentioned as being added to the book after the original weren’t the “real” characters nor was there any “official” mention of them. Also, Alba is introduced by Miguel during the latter chapters of the book.
Alba is the first character introduced in the book to speak to the world outside of the novel. This is a character who is not to be confused with Angel, who had been mentioned as a character featured in the novel but who has been completely omitted from the book. As a result that character would not be included. However we can see him as the original in the first chapter where he starts to interact with the character the entire time. Because the book uses the concept of affection and that character is mentioned just once in the book, fans will know that Alba is an integral part
These different relationships that Alba deals with are never fully explored in the novel. Trueba’s love for his granddaughter is not odd and in some reader’s mind may not require an explanation yet it is true that Alba’s side of the story is illustrated in the final chapter when it is revealed that she and Trueba have written the novel. Trueba on the other hand never really explains where his feelings are coming from. The bizarre relationship between Esteban Garcia and Alba, which progresses throughout Alba’s life is never fully explored in the novel and Alba’s feeling are certainly never revealed nor are they explained to the reader, but nor is Esteban given the chance to define what he feels and explain what he does. The love that Alba and Miguel share is passionate and seems to engulf both of them as if when they are together the entire world disappears, yet Alba never seems to express her satisfaction with their relationship in the typical girly way. All of these relationships center around Alba yet her side of the story is hardly ever explain with detail. Diary entries serve as a way of exemplifying Alba’s feelings for Miguel as passionate love, Esteban Trueba’s feelings as a non-physical connection between two people, and Esteban Garcia’s feelings as a twisted individual lost in a place between love and hate. They also explain the differences that Allende has included throughout the novel, especially when love is concerned.
An excerpt from Alba’s diary:I love Miguel…he means so much to me, more than anything else ever has, I don’t know what I would do without him. I have never felt this way before, it’s as if my body misses him more than my mind does. Some days it scares me how much he means to me…it scares me that we can be so close. As if our souls are intertwining along with our bodies.
We never leave the room in the basement anymore, it has become our sanctuary and it will always be that way. Our relationship, the love that I feel for him, it has moved passed just passion. It is at the point where he is always inside me, in my head, in everything that I do. My only motivation is life is to do things for him, with him, to get me closer to him.
I understand that he has to do what he needs to for the revolution and I know that it is important for him to do anything that he can…but I don’t want to lose him. Why can’t the world just stop and let the two of us lay together in the basement holding one another. Both of us have fought and dealt with loss and tragedy don’t we deserve this happiness.
He would think it