Sor juana

The two poems, “She Complains about Her Fate: She Asserts Her Aversion to Vices and Justifies Her Pleasure in the Muses” and “A Good Face One Should Choose before Dying Rather Than to Expose Oneself to the Outrages of Old Age,” by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz both discuss the topic of beauty. Interestingly, the writer of both approach the subject from two different perspectives. They have similarities, both focusing on the fact that beauty is not everything, but one is viewed in comparison to intellect

Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz is the religious name for the woman born in 1651 as Juana Ramirez de Asbaje. She lived and worked near Mexico City when the area was still part of and controlled by Spain. Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz was not known in her life as a pioneer of feminism, but her writings have influenced views on women in the church while giving an intellectual identity to Mexico during the time of the Enlightenment. De La Cruz had several reasons for becoming a nun

recognized for great accomplishments that they did. Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz was one of them. She lived in a time where society didn’t view women as intelligent or capable to achieve more other than be a stay at home wife. However, Sor Juana had the courage to defend and stand up for what she believed in. She is known for being a feminist She set the example for women that they should fight for their rights and believe that they are equal to men. . Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz was born on November 12, 1651

Brandon Keaton Professor Waltman World Literature II- Paper # 2 14 September 2012 Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz: “Reply To Sor Filotea De La Cruz” Reflection paper Times have changed. As years pass, new laws arise, old ones plummet, some are merely altered but indefinitely, there are constant changes that bring us here to date. Reading De La Cruz’s letter, “Reply To Sor Filotea De La Cruz”, made me think more deeply about time and the way it molds us in a way we cant control. Someone

injustice. Two such characters during the Enlightenment period are Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and Mary Wollstonecraft. Specifically, Sor Juana’s poem “Philosophical Satire” and Wollstonecraft’s piece A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Sor Juana speaks to the injustice her gender faces through sharp words which attack the double standard and

Poet.... CONFERENCE ON SOR JUAN INEZ DE LA CRUZ FOR HISTORY 30/LOPEZ WRITTEN BY LUIS MALPICA 6/12/2011 The date was Friday May 13, 2011, I was on my way to attend my first conference ever on Sor Juana Inez De La Cruz. Who is this woman you ask? Good question because as of this date I never heard of her either. As I found out before Juana became Sor, which is sister of the church in Spanish, she was a highly

colonialism does not work for me, it is simply an excuse for their destruction of a culture. After reading the works of two great spanish playwrights, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz and Pedro Calderon de la Barca, in which they use this theme to drive their plot. These two texts explore colonialism in two very different ways. Loa to the Divine Narcissus by Sor Juana de la Cruz’s play uses religion as the main tool for the Spanish, to colonize the natives. Is Spain Christianity is the driving force behind their

The poem “Arraignment of the Men” by Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, a feminist writer and poet of the 17th Century places various accusations on the men. The accusations are based on the gender bias, sexism and injustice faced by the women of that century. The entire poem is a criticism of the hypocrisy of men. There are numerous instances in the poem where the poet while accusing the men also justifies as to why she does so. The first instance is when the poet accuses the men of blaming and judging

flooded into the new lands freshly claimed for the Spanish Empire. Two remarkable women, radically different from each other, who lived during this period of change are a lenses through which many of the new institutions and changes can be viewed. Sor Juana and Catalina de Erauso are exceptional women who in no way represent the norm but through their extraordinary tales and by discovering what makes them so extraordinary we can deduce what was the norm and how society functioned during this era of

"Sor Juana's Rhetoric of Silence." Rhetoric Review 25.1 (2006): 5-21. JSTOR. Web. 25 Nov. 2014. [This literary analysis focuses on Mexican nun Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, applying silence on history and the theory of rhetoric. Bokser examines silence as a rhetoric, but instead of using the theory, she employs Sor Juana’s prose pieces. It is also claimed that silence demands to be listened, given that it is