Wealth

Wealth - In the novels - The Houses of Spirits by Isabel Allande and The Unbearable lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

The House of the Spirits is an outstanding story of the Trueba Family of three generations and it portrays their loves , ambitions and the relationships and how they inevitably participate in the contextual history of their times . The history is their fate and it overwhelms them . In the novel , The Unbearable lightness of being we see the intertwined stories of Tereza and Tomas , Tomas and Sabina , Sabina and Franz , Franz and Marie-Claude--four

people , four relationships . But significantly the focus is on Tomas , who is constantly battling with the love for his wife and his erotic adventures with every other woman he meets , especially his long-time affair with the internationally noted painter , Sabina

Both these novels picture the ordinary lives of ordinary people , placed in the social arena of their period . AS usual there is the disparity between the classes , the poor and the rich and the common and the uneducated . The main characters in The House of the Spirits are from the two contrasting classes : Landed gentry (the privileged class of the society , not because of what they have achieved but because of their birth right ) and the poor peasants who bend their backs and earn living This is a common aspect in almost all the developing countries . The Trueba families represent the land owning upper class who is the direct descendants of the Spaniards and also born and raised...