The Portrayal Of Women In The Novels "One Hundred Years Of Solitude" By Gabriel Marquez And "The House Of The Spirits" By Isabel Allende

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standing to women. As a woman aged, her position in the social hierarchy
would increase. Furthermore women had few career choices; all were linked
to some form of domestic service whether solely as a wife and mother or as
a nanny or a combination. Religion played a very important role in this
predominantly catholic area. The role of women as portrayed by the church
was somewhat of a paradox, simultaneously acknowledging and praising women
for the gift of child bearing and yet depicting them as the root of all sin,
as the temptress inducing thoughts of fornication as well as causing the
original sin, that being Adam eating the fruit in the ‘Garden of Eden'.
Despite Marquez's well documented anticlericalism this idea in
church ideology of the temptress is paralleled in One Hundred Years of
Solitude albeit the figure of Eve in her roles is split between the
matriarchs of Macondo namely Pilar Tenera and Ursula Iguaran. In the
beginning of One hundred years of solitude: ...

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fills Jose Arcadio's bones with: "…foam, a languid fear, and
a terrible desire to weep." Where Ursula is portrayed as the matriarch of
the town Pilar is the sexual matriarch of the town. She bears two children
from Aureliano Buendia and Jose Arcadio . She also has sexual relationships
with Aureliano and Arcadio. This shows her power in the novel manifests
sexually, it seems that the attraction to her is passed on th rough the
generations , and even after marriage they always seem to return to her .
She was the first lover of many of the Buendia men and her presence is
felt throughout the whole novel , this is parallel to another character who
witnesses the 100 yrs of solitude , this is ...

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