The House of Spirits

Ideology and The House of Spirits play a crucial role with each other. Before I had read through the Toolbox, I had an extremely hard time understanding what the world/and concept "ideology" really meant. Ideology can be defined as "the study of ideas."

Esteban Treuba's views on his life and the world around him differ very much from the regular person. Esteban is very judgemental -- discriminates heavily against different classes in society. Looks down upon the peasants, however, I belive he's too quick to forget where he came from. Esteban seems like a very intelligent and noble man to the reader, however, when you look deeper into the character Allende was trying to bring out, you see a corrupt and hateful man. Esteban also doesn't want people in his village to get "access" to the outside world. He allows for no new ideas to be brought into the village.

Overall, I'm glad that I've found out exactly what it means to understand ideology. It was a tougher concept at first, but now I can actually apply it to the reading and gain some new information from it.