Subversive Actions and Paradoxes Displayed in "The House of the Spirits" and "Kiss of the Spiderwoman"

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However, Alba still wants her grandfather, Esteban, to have some sort of power within the government. The paradox within this scenario lies in the fact that Alba wants to belong to the proletariat cause, yet still wants a family member, who is a conservative, to hold his position, even though Esteban stands for everything that Alba and Miguel are fighting against...
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Alba also fails to correctly comprehend her motives because it seems, at times in the novel, that Alba aids the revolution "out of love" for Miguel and not because she truly wants to assist the cause. Another example of paradox through subversive actions exists as Alba helps the revolution when she "sat in at the university along with the students who had seized a building in support of a strike by workers", then, soon after, steals guerilla weaponry from her grandfather, hiding it with assistance from her Uncle Jaime...
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