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The House as a Microcosm in Broken April and House of Spirits IB Language A1 Paper1 by Megg Collins ENG 3UIB for Mr. Thompson January 04, 2008 The word house as defined by Merriam Webster Dictionary is "a building that serves as living quarters for [a family]. In the two world literature novels The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende, and Broken April by Ismail Kadare, houses and similar structures are used as a microcosm to the macrocosm of higher meaning. Specifically, the two works are representative of culture, and in addition characteristics of the protagonists and antagonists. Firstly, in Allende's novel The House of the Spirits, the two main houses are symbolic of Chilean culture. The Tres Marias originates as an estate in the prime of Chilean history. When a main character Esteban Treuba arrives he understands the work he'll have to put into the "nightmare, full of rubble [with] half the...
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