Analysis Of Hernán Cortés From 'The Second Letter'

Hernán Cortés was a military leader who seek to gain control on the land and in no doubt was looking for gold from the start. Cortés was becoming selfish by wanting more of the Aztecs gifts and in effect he took control. I find that Cortés was becoming selfish because despite the many gifts that Moctezuma and the natives gave him, he wanted more and didn’t care about the natives. Throughout the story “from The Second Letter”, Cortés is in awe by all the goods they have in the market which he states “every kind of of merchandise such as may be met with in every land is for sale there” (pg. 553). He writes a long paragraph on just about what the natives have which can suggest that he’s more eager to take their land. Even from the beginning when