The Evil Sides of Esteban Trueba – A commentary on Allendes The House of Spirits pages 65-67

n this circumstance passage from pages 65-67 of Isabela Allendes book The House of Spirits, Allende pitchs Esteban Truebas moody sides of his character. She does this by showing the contri moreoveror what Trueba did plainly she withal presents her views on the clubhouse that he lives in, Chile, the early 1900s. In this passage, the causality tries to come a severalize how Esteban Trueba is unrighteous in his actions towards other citizenry. Allende speaks rough Trueba as a representative of the building block wealthy manlike society in that period.She tries to emphasize how the thoughts of the people in that time evolved around politics, family matters and society. In the first go of the passage Allende talks nearly how the garter (Trueba) took care of his family. He did actu all(prenominal)y bide his family financially but, the author emphasizes that he didnt have words too see them and using a flashback she mentions his explanation on why he couldnt visit his dy ing set close to, He was so busy in the fields, ( ) that he had no time to waste at the bedside of an passelicap(65).Saying that about his own mother doesnt rattling make the reader go through sympathy for Trueba. Allende shows Truebas ignominious sides by theme about his rapes and that he didnt confess to bothone about that the domainy children are his, his children. Allende comments on this by using a very contradict tone, It was better to think that they were not(66). This wasnt all that the author mentioned about Truebas sins concerning his rapes, she further mentions how Trueba threw the suffering women out, he would send her flying with his wip(66).The author shows that Trueba just respected the people in his own lead offition, by using a euphemism, she mentions Truebas opinion that if everyone would be born with the identical rights then, everybody would go to hell and civilization would be thrown back to the Stone while(66). Allende shows Truebas quest to ma rry a women of heights term, when he was ready to have children he would find a women of his own class(66). This actually shows that Trueba would do everything to achieve his goal, to break rich, wealthy and highly ranked in the society, he would even marry a fair sex just because of her high status in the society and big wealth. twain these quotes show too how Allende presents Trueba full of sicken towards poorer people although he had belonged to the lower part of society for a big part of his life. Allende tries to show the reader how evil and self-seeking Trueba is by mentioning his comments on Niveas fight for cleaning charwoman rights, That woman is sick in the maneuver. To further get Trueba viewed as a evil man, Allende shows Truebas bad sides of his character by presenting his sarcastic views on womens rights, If women dont know that twain and two are four, how are they sacking to be able to handle a scalpel? (67).This quote shows that Trueba doesnt joke when he puts the woman down, he just is a man with no respect or imagery to the woman suffering during that time. The author uses a hyperbole when she mentions Truebas exaggeration on womens pleads, At the rate theyre going, the next thing you know theyll be asking to be deputies, judges-even death chair of the Republic (67). She all the way shows how Trueba is pessimistic to any changes in society and intolerant towards woman.By making comments like, It would go against the nature(67), Allende shows Truebas hubris which result lead him to a misery posterior on on in the book. She also shows how unidirectional minded Trueba is by saying that and the reader can clearly see that Allende tries to present Trueba as intolerant as possible. She clearly marks the point that Trueba isnt a smart man, he is rotten from inside and that people with the kind of view on society similar to Truebas are bad. Allende shows that Trueba isnt a laughing(prenominal) man, he does everything to achieve h is economical goal, but that he never finds peace in his soul.In this passage, Allende really shows us Truebas neagaitve views on the society. While the author shows all these dark sides of Truebas character, she also makes one thing relevant, Truebas fierce involvement in politics later in his life. She foreshadows this by using the quote, What these cases really need is a strong hand(67). One might wonder how a one-way-minded man like Esteban Trueba is going articulatio the ruling part of society and so far be able to stay in power? That does for sure not plough in a democratic artless.Its up to Trueba to be able to controll his evil sides and bad habits and still live a successful life, both politically and privately. In this passage Allende presented Trueba as not completely an evil man but also as an intolerant, ignorant and selfish character. She did this by talking a lot about his bad relations with his family, his many rapes and also his narrow-minded views on the soci ety involving woman rights. The author also expresses Trueba not only in his character but as an representative of the whole upper-class male society of that times.