women in house of the spirits
The women in the House of the Spirits seem to have great lasting power to enable change. Each woman seems oppressed in their own way, but they appear to rise above it in the feminist movement. This starts with Nivea who begins to advocate for women’s sufferage. Clara on the other hand uses a silent tactic on Esteban, to ‘put him in his place’. Alba, who has been abused by Esteban Garcia is able to rise above the abuse once she escapes imprisionment and is helped by the poor woman. Each of the women goes about rising above their oppression in their own way. The women seem to employ non violent, subtle tactics to get their points across, rather than the men, who use violent tactics as seen in the government revolutions. The women have longer lasting change, as opposed to the men, whose revolutionary ideas have led to relatively little change.