represents the authoritarian spirit and military dictatorship.
embodies the perversion of religious piety in the Catholic Church.
: A lecherous man who bombards Ana with anonymous, perverted letters.
: A mystic who lives as a religious hermit in a nearby cave. Allegorical Significance
Ana, a young English governess, arrives at an isolated country estate to care for three girls. She quickly becomes entangled in the warped lives of three middle-aged brothers and their death-obsessed matriarch: