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

n this particular passage from pages 65-67 of Isabela Allendes book The House of Spirits, Allende presents Esteban Truebas aristocratic sides of his quality. She does this by showing the commentator what Trueba did but she also presents her views on the society that he lives in, Chile, the early 1900s. In this passage, the rootage tries to reveal how Esteban Trueba is evil in his actions towards opposite people. Allende speaks about Trueba as a representative of the whole wealthy male person society in that time.She tries to emphasize how the thoughts of the people in that time evolved more or less writeities, family matters and society. In the first part of the passage Allende talks about how the mavin (Trueba) took c be of his family. He did actu in ally support his family financially but, the author emphasizes that he didnt bother too see them and using a flashback she mentions his explanation on why he couldnt visit his dying mother, He was so fill in the fields, ( ) t hat he had no time to waste at the bedside of an shut-in(65).Saying that about his own mother doesnt really make the reader feel sympathy for Trueba. Allende shows Truebas dark sides by writing about his rapes and that he didnt confess to anyone about that the gentle cosmosy children are his, his children. Allende comments on this by using a very negative tone, It was better to think that they were non(66). This wasnt all that the author mentioned about Truebas sins concerning his rapes, she further mentions how Trueba threw the poor women out, he would send her escape with his wip(66).The author shows that Trueba unaccompanied respected the people in his own class, by using a euphemism, she mentions Truebas opinion that if everyone would be born with the same rights then, everybody would go to hell and civilization would be thrown back to the Stone mount up(66). Allende shows Truebas quest to marry a women of high spot, when he was ready to apply children he would find a wo men of his own class(66). This actually shows that Trueba would do everything to get hold of his goal, to become rich, wealthy and highly ranked in the society, he would even marry a woman just because of her high status in the society and big wealth.Both these paraphrases show also how Allende presents Trueba copious of disgust 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 egotistical Trueba is by mentioning his comments on Niveas fight for woman rights, That woman is sick in the toss. 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 two and two are four, how are they going 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 imagination to the woman suffering during t hat time. The author uses a hyperbole when she mentions Truebas exaggeration on womens pleads, At the rate theyre going, the bordering thing you know theyll be asking to be deputies, judges-even President of the nation (67). She clearly 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 will lead him to a bereavement later on in the book. She also shows how one-way 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 golden 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 happy man, he does everything to achieve his economical goal, but that he never finds peace in his soul.In this passage, Allende really shows us Truebas neagaitve views on t he society. While the author shows all these dark sides of Truebas character, she also makes one thing relevant, Truebas harsh 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 join the ruling part of society and suave be able to stay in power? That does for sure not work in a democratic country.Its up to Trueba to be able to controll his evil sides and bad habits and still live a happy life, both politically and privately. In this passage Allende presented Trueba as not only an evil man but also as an intolerant, ignorant and selfish character. She did this by talking a lot about his bad dealing with his family, his many rapes and also his narrow-minded views on the society 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.