Isabel Allendes historical fiction novel entitled The House of the Spirits uses magical realism to show that during the mid 1900s in Chile the dictators were able to control all the people by threatening and brainwashing them into believing that they are the ideal leader of Chile Throughout the novel Allende uses different techniques and themes to emphasize important characters and events For example she uses hyperbole dictatorship and obsessions These three techniques styles and themes portray
The title of the passage chapter seems to me very interesting It is clearly stated that Clara is a clairvoyant meaning having a supernatural ability to perceive events in the future or beyond normal sensory contact In the chapters preceding this passage we come across a lot of examples of magical realism as a theme in the novel be it Rosas immense beauty her plain white skin her green hair or her yellow eyes it all sounded too magical to be true In the same context Claras being a clairvoyant ma
Death is a universal subject used in many novels to engage the reader The way death is represented varies greatly between novels and authors Two examples of differing views can be seen in The House of the Spirits by Isabelle Allende and Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garca Mrquez In both novels deaths occur to young characters in The House of the Spirits the character Rosa who was young beautiful and engaged dies as an accident whereas in Chronicle of a Death Foretold the young charac