Woman Power
... Even from the beginning, Eve, the first woman, caused Adam to fall by encouraging him to go against God’s commandment. Delilah, a deceptive woman, influenced Samson, a man of infinite strength, to reveal his own personal secret. How can a woman pressure a man to against his own will? Though a woman’s appearance may seem weak, she possesses much might according to Isabel Allende’s “The Judge’s Wife. ... From this quote, one can infer that she does not have much power or voice when it comes down to dealing with situations or in this case men. What is so ironic about this is that this seemingly hidden woman lacked fear and caused a dramatic change in her husband as well as Nicolas Vidal. ... “Behind a good man, there is a great woman.” In this case behind a powerful man, there is a mightier woman. ... Because of this catastrophe, a Turkish woman prophesied to Vidal stating that he was going to “lose his head over a woman” (Allende 381).