Our Secret By Isabel Allende Analysis

“Fear is stronger than desire, than love or hatred, or guilt or rage, stronger than loyalty. Fear is all consuming.” In the occurrence of trauma in one’s life fear takes a profound role and utterly shapes one's life. In “Our Secrets” by Isabel Allende, a man and woman, two civil war surviving victims, forever foreigners, stumbled upon each other in the city, finding themselves making love in a room. The fear that has been consuming these two finally implodes in their secrets lies and silences. By examining the turmoil state of mind the man and woman are in, we come to a clear understanding of their internal pain, in a cry for help, them both want normalcy more than anything, unwilling knowing they carry out such emotions in their lies secrets and silences, until they finally break down connecting their minds and souls. Lies, there are many types of lies, …show more content…
Allende portrays the lies in a way not meaning to hurt anyone but holding one together. Their secrets come out in the form of their silence, we find them out with their actions and thoughts, more than with the words spoken, given there are few quotations, and dialog is long within the paragraphs. We see how they are all so intertwined exposing the emotional turmoil they once faced, but now free of the “darkness” holding them