Castillo: Shaping The New World

Cortes played a large role in the conquering of the Americas, and both Traditions and Encounters and The Broken Spears document his actions. In Traditions and Encounters, Cortes’s role as captain of Spanish expeditions was detailed. The advantage that the

By analyzing document 12.1, “The Aztecs and the Incas through Spanish Eyes,” it allows people today to have a better understanding and at

Leon-Portilla based the stories told in this book upon old writings of actual Aztec people who survived the Spanish massacres. The actual authors of the stories told in this book are priests, wise men and regular people who survived the killings. These stories represent the more realistic view of what really happened during the Spanish conquest. Most of the history about the Aztec Empire was based on Spanish accounts of events, but Leon-Portilla used writings from actual survivors to illustrate the true history from the Indians’ point of view.

Miguel Leon-Portilla author of Broken Spears- The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico, tells the story of the Spanish conquest over the Aztecs from the Aztec point of view. It is more familiar in history that the Spanish led by Hernan Cortez defeated the Aztecs with a powerful army and established an easy victory all while having intentions to gain power and greed. However, Leon-Portilla focuses on the Aztec Empire and their story. Leon-Portilla does a great job giving readers the real occurrences and events from Aztec members. This paper argues that history must be told from all sides. It is more common to hear about the Spanish conquest

No society remains immobile, even if some human beings resist changes. The advances in technology and the emergence of new beliefs allow people to have a broader imagination. Thus, numerous new interpretations of ancient works, whether they are plays, folktales, or poems, permeate around the world. These renditions re-tell the original stories in contexts that adjust to modern world. What was regarded serious in the past becomes mockery nowadays. William Shakespeare, one of the greatest English play writers, has a profound influence upon different societies globally since the fifteenth century, for his plays inspire many contemporary artists to present new scopes reflecting their societies. Considered as one of Shakespeare’s greatest

William Shakespeare is one of the greatest writer in the world. He has written allot of plays which were amazing and interesting. Even today, people still try to understand and figure out Shakespeare’s master piece in his plays. Many of them are influencing writers’ around the world and one of them is called Junot Diaz. “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao” is the title of Junot Diaz book in which we can perceive the author’s allusion to William’s Shakespeare play in order to comprehend the book better wise. There are many allusions that Junot Diaz had in mind of the play “The Tempest” while writing his book and the one that beats them all is the resembles of the rightful Duke of Milan in the play, Prospero and Yunior, the narrator of the story of Oscar Wao. Each of their personalities, story and character’s will prove this allusion in which they are such alike and how we perceive the story and the character differently after these following information.

The fourth technique that was used in the play was Historia. In lecture we learned that theatrical history lesson were to remember history and uncover lost lessons. Also, it is a “theater of anachronisms” that is parts of understanding and making accessible to the audience (Kinan Valdez 04/18). The play used historia perfectly by reclaiming the lost history that happened between the Sleepy Lagoon Murder and the Zoot Suit Riots because this era was swept under the “proverbial rug” (Kinan Valdez 04/18). An outstanding factor of this technique was that Valdez re-positioned the “Pachucos” as community heroes and the first “Chicanos” to be present because the Pachucos were viewed negatively at the time and were not welcomed whatsoever. This transformation changed many people’s assertions on the Pachuco lifestyle.

In a excerpt from the “Second Letter to Charles V” (1520), the author Hernan Cortés describes to King Charles V the wonders and happenings that occur in the city of Temixtitlan. Cortés’s purpose is to inform the the King that even through the city is inferior to Spanish culture, Temixtitlan is very advanced and is worthy of being conquered. His use of diction, imagery, parallelism, and coordinating conjunctions convey not only a admirative tone, but also an authoritative one in order to persuade the reader to commend the Aztecs, but disapprove their way of life.

Her fondness for Cortés made her a traitor, her role as his interpreter, mistress, and informant led to herself earning her the nickname, La Chingada by modern Mexicans. All her actions led her to be the embodiment of the famous saying, “Traduttore, traidore. ”Her interpretation help her seal the role of the fate of the Aztec Empire, we see how interpreters can play an important role in shaping

Cortes is an intriguing biography of Hernan Cortes’s life from his drawn out childhood to his conquering of the Aztec Empire. Cortes began as a sickly baby and ended as one of the most well-known Spanish conquistadors. Hernan studied law at Salamanca, but he left after two years without a degree and returned home. Then, he set out for the New World in 1504 and maintained himself there for thirteen to fourteen years. Cortes embarked on a voyage that ended in Santo Domingo, where he was granted land and appointed a notary for the town of Azua. After being in Azua for several years, Cortes went to conquer Cuba under the command of Panfilo de Narvaez. After they assumed control of Cuba, Don Diego Velazquez de Cuellar was made governor and granted

1. The Americas began as the “New World”, where European settlers arrived to the foreign land carrying their beliefs, religion and philosophy. They called it the new beginning, despite Natives already occupying the land. People from Europe hoped to move into the colonies in the Americas for religious freedom and to better their lives through promises of more land, property, and profitability. However, the settlers’ ignorance of the land and its environment led them to be faced with many trials and tribulations upon their arrival, weakening the idea of the promising “New World”. This did not deter the settlers, so, through the misfortunes, struggles of slavery, battle for political power and force of

Similarly to England, Spain also experienced a resurgence in theatre. During the Spanish Golden Age, which encompassed 100 years from 1550 to 1650, Spain’s economic boom allowed the craft of theatre to flourish. Through this age, Spanish theatre would see distinct developments in the subject matter of productions, the layout of theatre venues, and its catalog of native playwrights.

Drama changed literature and theater into what it is today. I. History of Elizabethan Theater a. forming of theater 1. medieval church 2. mystery and morality b. actors 1. rogues and thieves 2. acting guilds II. Influences and people a. commanding actors 1. Shakespeare 2. Burbage b. other 1. wars of the roses (other historical influences) 2. laws restricting theater III. The theaters a. prices 1. seating 2. stage b. the theater and the globe 1. locations and characteristics 2. Burbage and other accomplishment Elizabethan Drama During the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, England underwent a dramatic change in priorities. The importance of art and literature became highly prevalent. The impact of the Elizabethan drama and

The history of theatre in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries is one of the increasing commercialization of the art, accompanied by technological innovations, the introduction of serious critical review, expansion of the subject matters portrayed to include ordinary people, and an emphasis on more natural forms of acting. Theatre, which had been dominated by the church for centuries, and then by the tastes of monarchs for more than 200 years, became accessible to merchants, industrialists, and the less privileged and then the masses.

I will look at Brecht’s theory of Epic theatre, tracing the beginnings