In retrospect, it probably would have been wise to do my four blogs before the end of the semester, because now I am stuck doing my blogs on the “House of the Spirits”. I am not going to come right out and say the book was bad, but I will say that it is kind of hard to write four blogs on it.
For the topic of this blog I would like to talk about Clara and how she was able to live with a moral cripple like Estabon. Obviously this couldn’t have been an easy thing to do, but I think the fact that she knew what he was like before she even married him made it a little easier on her than if she suddenly found out what he was like three years into their marriage. Because of her clairvoyance she knew what he was like but also knew it was her destiny to marry him. Since it was her own choice to go through with the marriage, knowing all along that he was a weirdo, self-pity wasn’t really an option for her. Also, because she never loved him, I think it was easier for her to cope with the fact that he was a dirt-bag.
Throughout her life Clara is always very independent. She doesn’t have to radically break any traditions of the time to be an extremely self sufficient person. When I say self-sufficient I mean as far as her emotional and psychological person. She never really seems to need anything from anybody, unless it is help doing remedial chores around the house… or retrieving her mother’s dismembered head from a bush…
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