Don Quijote

In this essay, female oppression in La Casa de Bernarda Alba will be discussed and analyzed. However, in order to be able to understand the importance of this theme and the impact it has had on the play, one must first understand the role of female oppression in the Spanish society in the 1930s.

Marin said that “she’s going to get a real job downtown because that’s where the best jobs are, since you always get to look beautiful and get to wear nice clothes and can meet someone in the subway who might marry you and take you to live in a big house faraway.” (Cisneros,26-27) This mean she will change her life with man not her own. In this story’s background society is woman should work in a house and man should go outside and make money so this is like man should protect woman. Also, another character that similar with Marin is Rafaela. She is beautiful so her husband didn’t let her go outside of her house. Then, she never left outside and she just look outside through the window. This can be said that women rely on men and leave all responsibilities for men. In the past, this thought, same as them is very normal but as time passes, most people agree for gender equality. Then, literally, gender is being equal. But, Esperanza thought that woman should live in recognition of these thoughts and consider them after she met normal woman in that

In colonial Latin America, one aspect of life that was constantly under attack and had to be guarded at all costs was the ideal of one's Honour. Women in colonial Latin America had to especially be on their guard to protect their honour, as an unanswered attack to their honour could ruin a family's honour. But if a woman's honour was attacked there were ways for her to protect it. The honour women possessed at the time was said to be not as important as the honour of a man, but it is, in fact, more important then the man's. By using Richard Boyer's document Catarina Maria Complains That Juan Teioa Forcibly Deflowered Her and Sonya Lipsett-Rivera's document Scandal at the Church: Jose de Alfaro Accuses Dona Theresa Bravo and Others of

This passage was written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez in The Chronicle of a Death Foretold. It is about Divina Flor who explains to the writer why she did not warn Santiago Nasar that he was going to die. She recounts that, as a child, she was sexually assaulted by him. This passage is so important to this book because it brings out the themes of women's roles in Latin American Society, power and culture. These themes help the Marquez bring out the important contexts of the story so readers can understand the importance of the story. In The Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Gabriel uses structure techniques, symbols, contrast, foreshadowing, imagery and figurative language to bring out the theme of gender roles.

Isabels short story, “An Act of Vengeance” is an example of the power she depicts towards women along with her foundation, “The Isabel Allende Foundation” which she states, “Empowers women and girls worldwide”. In her text, in which a young teen’s father is killed by the same man who raped her and took away dignity and reason for living building up hate towards him. The irony is as Allende states, “She searched her heart for the hatred she had cultivated throughout those thirty years, but she was incapable of finding...Then she understood with horror that by thinking about him every moment, and savoring his punishment in advance, her feelings had become reversed and she had fallen in love with him”(Allende#1). The hatred and punishment she wanted to give him for what he did turned into an unstoppable love. Isabel Allende is a strong feminist and it can be seen throughout her writing, reason for this is her personal experiences, causing it to change the way she refers when writing about the opposite sex.

In “Lieutenant Nun: Memoir of a Transvestite in the New World” by Catalina de Erauso, a female-born transvestite conquers the Spanish World on her journey to disguise herself as a man and inflicts violence both on and off the battlefield. Catalina discovers her hidden role in society as she compares herself to her brothers advantage in life, as they are granted money and freedom in living their own lives. Erauso decides to take action of this act of inequality by forming a rebellion, as she pledges to threaten the social order.The gender roles allotted to both men and women in the Spanish world represent the significance of societal expectations in order to identify the importance of gender in determining one’s position in the social order in the Spanish World.

Don Quixote is a Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. It follows the adventures 

of Alonso Quixano, a retired elderly man who develops a fascination with chivalrous novels 

eventually become delusional, believing everything written to be true and currently going on in 

the Spanish country side where he lives (La Mancha). The novel itself contains a narration of 

Quixote’s adventures. These adventures are broken up into “Sally’s”. The first Sally feature 

Quixote’s first “quests”. After setting out early in the morning Quixote eventually wanders his 

way to an inn that he believes to be a castle, he asks the innkeeper who he believe to be a lord to 

dub him a knight. Have very little money Quixote’s spend the night in the stable with his horse, 

where he starts a fight with muleteers who are attempting to water their mules. Quixote’s take 

attempts to remove his gear from the trough as a threat and attacks the men. As a result the 

innkeeper tell Quixote’s to leave.


 Quixote’s next quest is that of “frees” a boy who is tied to a tree and being beaten by his 

master. After freeing the boy Quixote’s makes the master promise on a chivalric code to treat the 

boy fairly, upon leaving the beaten continues worse then it had previously been. His final quest is 

to defend the honor of his imagined lover, from traders he met on the road. After picking a fight 

with the traders Quixote’s is left badly wounded on the side of the road. He is found and

Patriarchal structure remains prevalent today with the concepts of “white knighting,” fathers walking their daughters down the aisle to be given away to another man in a wedding, a father’s approval for a daughter’s partner, and many other cases. In Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote, Don Quixote works to save various damsels in distress as his patriarchal white knight position and is always working to please Dulcinea through his efforts of gallantry. In the case of the Captive, the Captive ultimately tried eloping with Lela Zoraida. The Captive’s secret relationship with Lela Zoraida was only able to occur because the affairs were conducted below Lela Zoraida’s father’s radar, therefore, he was not aware of these proceedings.

Contrary to those who might delve into the imaginative truths of the text, I am taking a more literal and common sense approach in my belief that the claim Cervantes makes through the narrator of Don Quijote being a “truthful history” is most definitely a claim in jest. It was in all likelihood included to mirror the humorous “realities” believed by the titular knight himself.

The only part that survives to this day discusses his enslavement and reveals it as a major influence on his writing. In addition, the story follows the life of Galatea (for whom the novel is a namesake), an ideal female (probably modeled after Catalina de Salazar y Palacios). This idea of the ideal female is a prominent mark of humanist and Renaissance literature, and was probably passed on to Cervantes by his professor from Complutense, Juan López de Hoyos. The Decameron by the Italian Boccaccio is best known for presenting the ideal women Fiammetta, who is modeled after the love of Boccaccio's life.

Immersing yourself in a fictional world, in which your fantasies and imagination runs rampant; leaving behind a monotonous and redundant life to become a part of a new enchanted, lively world of excitement and intrigue. The present digital era, a technological advance generation which grants endless possibilities, with access to a plethora of television shows. We become engrossed in our fictional shows due to the different array of characters; awe inspiring settings; and themes, that compelled people to binge watch. “Just one more episode” are the inner thoughts of most when doing a marathon through their favorite television programs, doing this enthralls the populous to escape reality and venture into any new realms. And when visual stimulus

My understanding of the culture of the Columbian people presented in Marquez’s Chronicle Of A Death Foretold, was further strengthened through our discussion regarding the roles of females in society, relative to their time period. Initially we came to the conclusion that women unknowingly accepted themselves to be "inferior" to men, and conformed to society's expectations of them. However I brought up the point that the younger generation of women, more specifically Angela and her friends knew tricks to fake their virginity. This helped our group realize that, the notion of conforming to society's expectations was not as prevalent in the younger generation, as a woman's virginity in this time period was her honor and by faking it,they're indirectly

Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quixote is grounded in past records on a figure by the name Don Quixote. While it is unclear from the text itself to what degree Cervantes had embellished the so-called history, it is certain by his own admittance that the work is “inventive” (Cervantes, 446). From this it is immediately apparent that it is not truthfully a history in an Aristotelian sense. Yet still it maintains that grounding in reality, and to call Cervantes’ Don Quixote a “truthful history” is perfectly sound, for sufficiently relaxed definitions of truthfulness and history. Two opposing approaches to what is permitted in a work called a history can be found from Aristotle, particularly in his Poetics, and from Tagore’s The Ramayana.

Gender Criticism: How well do the female characters of Don Quixote conform or subvert the ideals of the time period, and what does this say about Cervantes’ views on the roles of women in society? Traditionally, European women in the 1600s generally were not allowed much agency. They were expected to stay home and maintain the household, and aspire to be paragons of domesticity. For the most part, the female characters of Don Quixote adhere to this, though Cervantes acknowledges, through characters such as Marcela, that women’s roles in society were growing more independently.

The master-servant relationship between Sancho and Quixote in Cervantes’ Don Quixote reveals the synthesis of both chivalric and picaresque elements in the story. The picaresque perspective is visible in Don Quixote when comparing it to Lazarillo De Tormes. The adversity of the underdog Lazaro and his various masters reveal the foibles of human-makeup due to society’s harshness. Beyond the face-level meaning, the underlying depiction of Spanish society is hidden by the authors through the master-servant relationship alongside foodstuffs, and¬ cultural conflicts due to social hierarchy and the revival of Old Christian ethics. Thus, we search beyond these points of companionship to determine if material conditions and social circumstances between