Who Is The Virgin Of Guadalupe?

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.

The book focuses on how the Spanish slowly exploited the Aztec resources to the point where they started killing people for no reason but to exterminate them. One of the turning events during the Spanish conquest is the massacre in the main temple during the fiesta Toxcatl. The Aztecs begged their king to hold festivities in honor of the god Huitzilopochtli. After they got permission, they very carefully prepared for festivities and sworn to do their best dancing at the festivities to show the Spanish the beauty of their rituals. The Spanish showed that they are interested to learn more about the festivities, but they were planning to murder all the celebrants. When the celebrations began, the

First, religion is the dominant theme in the play. Milcha portrays Religion in various ways in the script. Margarita and her family are staunch Christians who believe in God and Hail Mary. Whenever something terrible occurs, they always pray for example when Mel calls them peasants, simple people, and amateurs, they all go to pray. Margarita seeks for God's intervention when she sinks into the ocean, and no one was near to help her. After margarita disappearing, Simon asks god why everything had to be hard. Eduardo, on the other hand, asks God to take him instead of her children. He says they are his dreams and he loves them very much.

In the film created by Salvador Carrasco, he tells us the story of the oppressed Aztecs by the Spanish conquistadors. The film leads to a social and religious understanding by two of the main characters Topiltzin (a native Aztec) and Fray Diego, (a friar in Catholicism). Together, both characters form a bond and that lets for the two different cultures to get together for the viewers to understand that these cultures are more in tune than what they seem. Carrasco, divides his movie into two parts, setting the tone for the mirroring of scenes, duality, and parallelism that takes place during the course of the movie. The director intends for his viewers to draw important connections from these elements that bring them to a greater understanding of social culture, religion, and faith. In one of the final scenes leading up the end of the movie, Fray Diego confronts Topiltzin at the church. At this point that the viewer sees a behavior change in Fray Diego's eyes. Fray Diego knows Topiltzin's feelings toward religion, indicating the large strides that he has made over the years in

Traditionally, the young girl has a court of people almost like a bridal party in a wedding which can be made up of all boys, all girls, or a mix of boys and girls depending on what the teenager wants. Guadalupe had a court of all girls, except she had one boy, the Chambelán, because that was what she wanted. The Chambelán is the girl’s partner, which is similar to the Groom in the bridal party. The Court, the Chambelán, and the girl, all dress up in fancy formal attire: ball gowns and suits, just like in a wedding. At Guadalupe’s Quinceñera, she wore a blue floor-length, big puffy gown, and the Chambelán wore a suit. Her court wore short white dresses, with a blue sash to match Guadalupe’s dress. In her opinion, the Quinceñera revolves around the dress. The court’s outfits, the cake, and the decorations all revolved around the style and color of the dress she chose.

For my third and final cultural event this semester, I attended the screening for the Mexican play, El Censo, which was shown during the Liberal Arts Symposium. The play is about a lower income family of tailors in the 1940’s who find themselves horrified and confused when confronted with having to respond to the Census, which largely relates to taxes which they have not paid and cannot afford to pay in the poor economic conditions. In many ways the issues which the play deals with, including modernization and people’s reactions as well as economic difficulty, are pertinent not only to every country in one way or another, but to every time period in one way or another. I will thus be comparing the situations and fears expressed in the play

From 1976 to 1983, a military group was in charge of Argentina after overthrowing the government in the 1930s (Tolerance. N.a. N.d). The military silenced the people who opposed or spoke out against them. The people who actually spoke out suddenly disappeared. These people were either imprisoned, tortured, killed, and never seen again. The most common person disappeared were children who opposed the military. Lawyers, and people who questioned the military (Tolerance. N.a. N.d). In Buenos Aires, Argentina during the 1970s, a group of women gathered in the Plaza de Mayo, in front of the president's palace and government buildings, to speak out about their missing children. The “Mothers of the Disappeared” formed the first public protest against

An individual can belong to one or many cultures. Culture is what makes a person unique and in some ways can define an individual. Within the various cultures there are symbols and artifacts that are culture specific and have deep meaning. I identify myself with the Hispanic and Middle Eastern cultures. From my family roots I have learned information about my ancestors and some examples of specific items that have a unique meaning. For example, in regards to my Hispanic culture, one symbol that is recognized is Our Lady of Guadalupe. She is also recognized as the Virgin of Guadalupe and has the title of the Virgin Mary associated with a celebrated pictorial image in Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City (Catholic Online). Growing up as a child I attended private catholic school from Kindergarten through my senior year of high school. During this time it was a requirement that fellow pupils and myself take a religion class focused on the catholic faith. It was in my early years that I first encountered information regarding Our Lady of Guadalupe.

The first thing we notice while reading a play are the characters, in this play the protagonist is Margarita Suarez. Then there is Margarita’s parents Eduardo Suarez and Aida Suarez, as well her grandmother and Simon Suarez her brother. Also, other characters that are not related to Margarita are the voices of Mel Munson, Mary Beth White, and the radio operator. Margarita’s family plays a crucial part in the play due to they are her support system, especially her father Eduardo who is her coach as well. The voices of Munson, Mary Beth, and the radio operator occasionally appear in the play by just commenting in the race. Although, Margarita is the main character she does not talk much due to she is always in the water swimming.

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

Technically speaking criminals are people who brake laws. They are the “other”, people who would never be our friends, due to the harm that they have caused good samaritans like us. These people are immoral and unjust. Or so I was told. My parents did not read the newspaper, and we did not have internet when I was younger. They also did not speak English so we did not watch American news. My family and I mostly watched Spanish television. Channels like Univision and Telemundo, they were are main source of information.

Set in the village of Fuenteojevuna, Spain during the Inquisition, all of the characters of the play are members of the Catholic Church as was the population at large. The character Commander Fernan Gomez had deep interest in the peasant women of Fuenteovejuna. He forcibly had his way with the women, yet still claimed to fight for the cross. In the play, the people said, “he is worse than a wild animal.” Far from feeling any remorse over his advances towards the women, both married and virgins, the commander believed he payed these women an honor by condescending into their society; “I am paying your wives an honor” (Vega 2141). By the end of the play, the towns people killed the commander. This play would have been performed on a small stage with many actors and a rowdy audience. Thus, the scene of the commander’s death would have been tumultuous on stage and likely those emotions would have spilled over into the unsettled audience which was in close proximity. The fact that Lope de Vega could even produce this play is astonishing.

The entire drama is acted out by members of the church, and videos were played to portray scenes that cannot be created on stage. The videos were also used to explain specific scenes, and biblical teachings portrayed in the drama. I was pleased to see that different elements were used to keep our attention throughout the performance. Children, teenagers, and adults performing in the play were able to invite their unsaved friends and family to watch them. This created a great opportunity to have their friends and family accept Jesus Christ as their personal Savior.

The opera tells the tragic story of Carmen, a young gypsy girl, and Don José, a soldier who is enchanted and manipulated by her. For Carmen, men are tools for her personal agenda—she uses

The play takes place in a Catholic school in the Bronx. The performers are, the school principal Sister Aloysius Beauvier; she is of the order of the Sisters of Charity age about 55, she is watchful, reserved, and unsentimental. Father Brendan Flynn; a working class priest age late thirties, Sister James a nun also of the Sisters of Charity in her twenties and Mrs. Muller age 38 a black women, the mother of the only black student at the school.