Federico Lorcas The House of Bernarda Alba and Isabel Allendes The Ho

Federico Lorcas The theatre of operations of Bernarda Alba and Isabel Allendes The abide of the SpiritsSociety, and its orders upon the characters, plays a pivotal rolein the develop custodyt of the story in Federico Lorcas The base ofBernarda Alba and Isabel Allendes The family line of the Spirits. Thoughthe characters in each literary work were influenced by a range ofsocietal pressures, three major influences dominate both(prenominal) works. TheChurch, male dominance oer women, and socio-economic status (in otherwords, ones social class) be all sources of the greatest societalpressures upon the characters. In order to encounter why thesesocietal pressures had such a great influence upon the characters, itis important to understand the setting of each story.The House of Bernarda Alba is set in a petty village in rural Spainat about the same condemnation as the play was written, which was just beforethe Spanish Civil War. In rural Spain, exchangeable many rural areas acro ssEurope, traditional determine and social systems were prevalent among thesmall villages. As a result, these rural areas, like much of Europeansociety at the time, were largely backwards in their social structurewith class divisions still existent and society rule by males.Also, as is quite apparent in the play, religion in the form of theCatholic Church had a huge influence over the put outs of the people.The House of Bernarda Alba portrays the lives of five sisters livingin a village in rural Spain who have been heavily repressed by thesociety that they live in. They live in a restricting and unforgivingsociety where men exercise great control over women, the Church wieldssuch an influence that it can ostracize individuals that do notconfo... ...pressures have upon a society.---------------------------------------------------------------------i Lorca, Federico. The House of Bernarda Alba. paginate 47.ii Lorca, Federico. The House of Bernarda Alba. Page 48.iii Allend e, Isabel. The House of The Spirits. Page 3.iv Lorca, Federico. The House of Bernarda Alba. Page 37.v Lorca, Federico. The House of Bernarda Alba. Page 22.vi Lorca, Federico. The House of Bernarda Alba. Page 21.vii Lorca, Federico. The House of Bernarda Alba. Page 43.viii Allende, Isabel. The House of The Spirits. Page 146-147.ix Lorca, Federico. The House of Bernarda Alba. Page 5.BibliographyAllende, Isabel. The House of The Spirits. Bantam Books New York,1993.Lorca, Federico Garcia. The House of Bernarda Alba. Nick hern BooksLimited London, 1999.