Angellica Christica Character Analysis

Women, especially were inclined to be criticized or ostracized if they did not follow society’s gender roles. They were thought to be mothers and the main caretakers of the family. At the time, women were seen as delicate and feminine. Their work was found in the house with domestic duties. Charlotte Temple, by Susanna Rowson describes the ideal women and was specifically targeted to “factory girls” who left their homes in the farms to work in the city (Rowson, xii). Mrs. Temple, Charlotte Temple’s mother, decided not to let her grief consume her and instead focused on making her husband happy and taking care of her father after Charlotte left (Rowson, 56). If a woman was not committed to one man, then she was not the ideal woman. Mademoiselle La Rue, Charlotte’s teacher, was far from a role model. She was scandalous because she “eloped from a convent with a young officer” and she even had to hide it to get a job at the school (Rowson, 26). Moreover, women with no financial fortune were unfit to marry. Marriage was a financial transaction and a man’s success required that he married someone wealthy. Montraville’s father explains to his son that he would be happy if his son were to marry a woman with a fortune, but if he was to marry a woman with no fortune he’d be sticking her into the evils of a small income with a potential

When examining history, it is important to view the perspective of more than one historian. Compared to the historians Jacob Burckhardt and Norman Davies, who are both male, Joan Kelly-Gadol offers an entirely different view to the Renaissance by presenting it with a woman's point of view. In his work, Davies discusses the new liberation and progress made by men during the Renaissance. However, Kelly-Gadol shows how women actually lost power and freedom in comparison to the Middle Ages. Burckhardt gives examples of economical and political changes during the Renaissance, specifically focusing on Florence. In contrast Kelly-Gadol has more on a focus on the social changes regarding love and sex for noblewomen. Despite these differences, all

Because Marinella could complete her formal education, she was exposed to the popularized literature, art, and political climate of Venice in the early renaissance. This allowed her to directly experience the misogynist arguments that would influence her feminist ideas. The Nobility and its respective advocacy for women serves as a direct response to Passi’s Defects of Women. In Lucrezia Marinella and the ‘Querelle des Femmes’ in Seventeenth Century Italy written by Paola Malpezzi Price and Christine M. Ristaino, Passi’s treatise is analyzed: Passi satirizes intellectual women, and comes to close to suggesting that women are different species. He asserts that women are like animals because both women and animals are devoid of reason and virtue (Malpezzi Price and Ristaino, 108). These claims of Passi set a precedent for the argument of Marinella in The Nobility. She focused primarily on the nature of women and argued that women were superiority of men. Commenting on the extreme nobility and virtue of women, Marinella contends that because women are the nobler sex, they inevitably perform their duties better

In the primary source, it talks about women from the upper class who gain prestige and power through widowhood. While lower class women had more freedom in their early life with work and marriage, upper class women were pressured to keep the wealth going throughout generations which led to a great deal of pressure to marry a rich man and benefit from that in any way that they could. The source focuses on a woman named Alessandra, who lived in the years between 1450-1465; married a wealthy merchant, named Matteo Strozzi, who then died of the plague thus leaving her with branches of businesses all across Europe and a sudden new access to these things that her husband previously took charge of. She talked to her sons about their role in the family with political, marital, and economical issues and duties for the family. She talked to her daughters about the men they should strive to marry and the duties they have at home that they should learn and do to

While Machiavelli’s work focuses on the ideal qualities of a leader, Castiglione’s most important work, The Courtier, highlights his ideal version of a Renaissance woman. Castiglione describes a woman who is elegant, educated, and pleasing. With this he believes a women of the court should be of modest

In some ways her role as an aristocrat and gracious hostess seems to connote a sense that her figure is purely decorative. Surrounded by masculine language and actions, her feminine elegance certainly stands out. In her critical study of women in Old English literature, Helen Damico (who bases her studies primarily on similarities between Icelandic and Anglo-Saxon portrayals of women) highlights her belief that Wealtheow embodies an Anglo-Saxon femininity that brings a sense of aristocratic beauty to a place otherwise lacking it. Yet she goes on to speculate that Wealtheow is not merely a “helpless” character—rather, she highlights the fact that what may seem a merely decorative aspect of the peace-weaver is imbued with a sense of foreboding, of the threat of violence that underlays even the most innocuous-seeming celebration.

Christine de Pizan, the defender of women, writes about an allegorical dream-vision taking place in the early 1400s following the Hundred Years’ War. Through this, she addresses the misogynistic views from different philosophers, poets and orators and acknowledges that women are worthy of both dignity and respect; they too have the full capability as men do in performing tasks with regard to intelligence and military expertise, thus proving that women are in fact not inferior to men, never mind of lesser value. Through the personified virtues of Reason, Rectitude and Justice, she then develops an allegorical story much like that of a city, which imposes a new social order for medieval women and encourages them to “…pursue virtue and shun vice” (de Pizan, 232) in taking pride of being a woman.

Voltaire discusses the exploitation of the female race in the eighteenth century through the women in the novel. Cunegonde, the Old Woman, and Paquette are continuously subjects to violent male desire as seen through rape, enslavement, and prostitution. However, these women strangely seem to accept their situations, describing rape as “the usual practice of war” (17). When Cunegonde recounts her experiences, she says “a modest woman may be ravished once, but her virtue is strengthened by it” (17). This acceptance shows her understanding of the limited options women had at the time, and what little power they possessed.

Arcangela Tarabotti, a Venetian nun and Early Modern Italian author, spent the vast majority of her life in an Italian convent writing texts centered on issues of forced enclosure and the patriarchy. Throughout her lifetime, she published five works, but one of her most poignant, Paternal Tyranny, spoke to these issues in a uniquely powerful way. Indeed, Tarabotti focused on three significant main points: the hypocrisy of putting daughters in convents, the problems with male patriarchy as a whole, and her own interpretation of the Bible. These points were presented with the help of several rhetorical strategies throughout the novel, such as, her ability to turn around popular claims about women and apply them to men, her strong use of references to the Bible and popular literary works, and her use of parables throughout the work to clearly give examples of her arguments, and many more. By exploring each of her arguments , we can see how she used these various rhetorical strategies to her advantage.

Arcangela Tarabotti, a Venetian nun and early modern Italian author, spent the vast majority of her life in an Italian convent writing various texts centered on issues of forced enclosure and the patriarchy. Throughout her lifetime, she published five works, but one of her most poignant, Paternal Tyranny, spoke to these issues in a uniquely powerful way. Indeed, Tarabotti focused on three significant main points: the hypocrisy of putting daughters in convents, the problems with male patriarchy as a whole, and her own interpretation of the Bible. She presented these points with the help of several rhetorical strategies throughout the novel, such as, her ability to turn around popular claims about women and apply them to men, her strong use of references to the Bible and popular literary works, her use of parables throughout the work to clearly give examples of her arguments, and many more. By exploring each of her arguments, we can see how she used these various rhetorical strategies to her advantage.

The shiny sun is over Mazatlán, Mexico, where Rafaela was sitting under an orange tree in Gabriel house seems to be romantic, but sometimes Gabriel gets angry and mad on her because he feels that she likes to be lonely, thinking for the future and for her family. But what make her leave Bobby and stay with Gabriel in Mazatlán, Mexico, Rafaela Cortez the mystery women, the Mexican women that was fighting to cross the border to survive from Mexico and live in United States. Rafaela Cortez is originally from Mexico City of Culiacan. Before the novel begins Rafaela moved to United States in illegal way or as the author describe it, she crossed the

The female characters such as Nora and Mrs. Linde are confined to the expectations of being an angel. Mrs. Linde for example had to give up on love to serve her family, “ my mother was still alive, but bedridden and helpless--and I had my two younger brothers to look after. In all conscience, I didn't think could turn him down” (1026). This reveals how a woman must leave behind her own desires for the well-being of her family. She had to marry for money to support her family.

Poetry affects the ancient and modern world indefinitely. Sometimes ambiguous, the influence of poetry relies on how one interprets it, but Aemilia Lanyer’s poems contributed clear ideas on morality. Her poetry summarizes early enthusiasm of female intelligence during the renaissance, and two incredibly valuable poems rely within her book, “Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum.” Lanyer claims the contents were “delivered unto her during sleep many years before,” and she bestows to her readers the poetic argument “Against Beauty Without virtue,” and also “Pilate’s Wife Apologizes For Eve.” These poems influenced not only the era in which Lanyer lived, but have held valuable notions related to present issues of feminism and women’s state in society. Layner’s execution of biblical analogies and views on morality and reason ultimately questioned the perspective on the enlightenment of women and their sensitivity to gender injustice during the renaissance.

Women’s role in the literary scene of the Venetian High Renaissance greatly erupted in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Women eventually became the most educated citizens in the city and were referred to as, “honest courtesans.” (Pg. 624) Our textbook outlines how women, “dominated” the literary scene with their fierce ability to be, “both sexual and intellectual.” (Pg. 624) Although there were many great poets of the Venetian High Renaissance, I will limit this essay to analyzing the amazing poems of only four very influential poets of this time. I will discuss how Veronica Franco intelligently transforms courtly love into sexual metaphor. I will identify the missing elements of chivalry and courtly

In the times of the Romans, about the thirteenth and fourteenth century, Maurice de Sully had created the area around Notre-Dame to be the heart of Paris (Horne 11). Regardless, over the years, this idea faded and in the sixtieth century, the provost of Paris had made the neighboring streets the designated spot for prostitution (Horne 11). In the text, we see that these women were called names like “creatures”, taking part in acts “with words and gestures well matched for obscenity” (Mercier 95). If we compare the names their being called to the fact that these women were told to work within these boundaries of the city, we can picture the kinds of feelings being thrust upon them by society. There is importance behind the distinctions the French government made to create an area for this lifestyle. Whether or not it was to continue such action to an area or make it easier to partake is inconsequential. They created a divide amongst women they deemed as wives and the prostitutes. One could guess that was societies way of perpetuating the idea that women are only useful as wives and mothers. The names of these districts were unpleasant calling it, “whore in hiding”. “The noises and smells around this area in medieval Paris must have been unspeakable” (Horne 36). We can speculate that this kind of behavior plagued most of the society. A