Tiempo de Silencio Essay

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.

There are many layers of themes that are subtlety imbedded into the film. The political theme of the film is a truly intriguing portrayal of life in Spain during this tense time. The underlying message of the film is one of defending the freedom of expression. It explores the importance of gaining knowledge through one’s own personal experiences. Culture is used as a pathway to achieve personal freedom. In addition, the film attempts to break some of the taboos surrounding an adequate education, focusing instead on this education through experience. Observation is used as a way to awaken the senses. Another theme that was imbedded in the film was childhood with the inclusion of a vast number of topics. The film not only contains scenes that deal with war but it includes scenes that include family, love, and

In El Laberinto del Fauno, Guillermo del Toro uses the theme of obedience to illustrate and condemn two repressive components of fascism: patriarchy and the coercion of free will. This essay will look at two examples of obedience in the film which reveal the abhorrent nature of these aspects of fascism and the importance of resisting them. These are, respectively, the relationship between Captain Vidal and Mercedes and Ofelia’s refusal to compromise her own integrity.

The short story “The Censors” by Luisa Valenzuela is set in Argentina during the dictatorship of Jorge Videla who reigned from 1976 to 1983. Juan, the protagonist of the text, starts the story by writing a letter to his old friend, Mariana, at her new residence in Paris. He had received Mariana’s new address from a confidential source and was too excited to think of his actions before writing and sending the letter. Later, Juan’s “mind [was] off his job during the day and [he couldn’t] sleep at night,” thinking of the letter (Valenzuela 966). He believes the contents to be innocent and irreproachable, but the censors of the Argentine government “examine, sniff, feel, and read between the lines of each

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.

The dominant portion of the excerpt is Bergreen's exposition of various historical arguments against Columbus, his foremost example being the works of Bartolomé de Las Casas. He integrates much of de Las Casas' work through the use of direct quotations, which helps to maintain a rigorous and analytical tone. This serves to improve Bergreen's credibility and reinforce the reader's initial impression of him as a rigorous and learned historian—an appeal to ethos. Through the use of direct quotations such as "Las Casas championed the nearly extinct victims of this outrage—'the simplest people of the world,'" (Par. 3) he is able to provide the reader with historical knowledge without directly taking a stance on the underlying divisive issue of the moral qualities and actions of Columbus. This extremely objective tone pervades the rest of the essay, and ultimately makes any moral judgement difficult to discern which would detract from the focus of the Bergreen's ultimate

Even though the cultural and veiled censorships have to do with why they won't let his book be read, he talks about why he wrote the novel, that it was a reflection of his childhood, and that censors only paid attention to one detail and that was the so-called bad words in Spanish and they used that as an excuse because the novel did not meet the criteria of the circumstances. The censors used a technique where they zoomed in on one detail of the novel and made it seem that because it was in Spanish, it had profanity in it. Rudolfo Anaya made a great point when he said that if we leave the tortillas out of our poetry meaning cultural values, then the cultural we're portraying will go

Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz: “Reply To Sor Filotea De La Cruz” Reflection paper

Lope de Vega’s play touches upon several key components and ideas that were brought up in many of the other stories read throughout the semester. This included the role of gender and how men and women are viewed differently in the Spaniard town of Fuenteovejuna. Another topic included the importance of family, love, and relationships and their connection on loyalty, trust, and personal beliefs. The last major influence found in other literature and in Fuenteovejuna, were the political and religious references made throughout the play. Even though Lope de Vega didn’t make these views obvious, the reader could still pick up on their connotation and the references made towards these specific ideas. With all of this in mind, each of these

Throughout the text, Tormes openly criticizes the church. He discusses the faults within the Spanish nobles when it comes to the notion of honour they are expected to have. Tormes expresses his subversion towards Spain and the Church in the subtlest of ways. He is a man who pushed himself to become better than what he was thought to be in order to destroy the way of thinking of those higher than him. He pushes boundaries like no other. Further on, this text also includes recurring folk and mythical elements – this is another stereotypical type of subversive literature. The Life of Lazarillo De Tormes shows how, even though being in a time where he was seen as inferior due to his social status as well as being a time of oppression that was controlled by a religious hierarchy, it doesn’t conform. It shows how Tormes was not accepting of the “exempla” genre that held popularity and approval. This shows a way were Tormes is literally subversive towards the society he was placed in. Through the text, we experience, on multiple occasions, the thoughts and feeling Tormes holds on the society and land he lives in. Tormes utilizes euphemism in order to throw in subtle comments and hints on how he resents the noble system and the church control over Spain. This subtleness allows Tormes to convey his disdain emotions towards the system in way that wouldn’t be view as excessively unorthodox.

Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz was a woman far beyond her years. Living in a time when society was dominated by men, she disregarded the fact that women during this time were forced to be uncurious objects, whose highest achievement in life was to give birth. Her relentless pursuit to attain knowledge and defy her culture's standards for women is illustrated throughout her writings. In the readings, ("Response to the Most Illustrious Poetess Sor Filotes de la Cruz, the three "Romances" and the "Redondillas"), she spills out her beliefs, feelings and pain in forms of symbolic devices and irony in attempt to erase the differences between men and women as intellectual beings, as well as to argue for a woman's right to pursue

The suppression of people can create a layer of iron. In The Censors by Luisa Valenzuela Juan leads himself down a path of irony. Juan receives a letter from a friend who has relocated to Paris. He feels compelled to write back to her, but he knows what he must write will be censored by the overbearing government. ”He knows that they sniff, feel, and read inbetween the lines of each and every letter”(174).

One thing important to note is the distinction that should be made between Semprun and his novels’. Within his novels, it can be noted that Semprun was sexist and a nationalist. While these traits are doubtlessly influenced from Semprun’s true character, to consider the Semprun in the novels to be a 1:1 scale of Jorge Semprun in real life would

Both Valenzuela and Cervantes use the satire as a way to try to end a certain way of life and bring about another. Valenzuela attempted to end the brutal dictatorship, while Cervantes tried to end the Middle ages and bring the Renaissance into the light. The initial point that the authors argue is about the welfare of people. In “The Censors” this is seen specifically when Juan is in Section K, “where envelops are very carefully screened for explosives” (Valenzuela 966). On Juan’s third day in

En respuesta a las necesidades, se ha identificado que el gobierno de Puerto Rico y el municipio de Gurabo cuentan con una serie de leyes, programas y servicios que pretenden atender las personas en edad avanzada. Sin embargo, el cambio poblacional y el aumento de envejecientes exigen una revisión sobre la política pública, su efectividad y la valoración de la vejez.