Summary Of Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, was a self-educated scholar, poet and a Hieronymite nun of New Spain. She is one of the few first feminist writers in the 1600s. She defended her right to be an academic, suggesting that women should be educated and be teachers. She accused men of being the cause of the misfortune of women.
The poet concentrates on strengthening the differences between men and women.
Her ideas make the readers think more about the distinctions and differences between men and women rather than about both as individuals.
She made it clear through the poem that women are being oppressed in society.
Criticizes men’s domination over women who never get a chance to do as they wish and are only allowed to do things which are forced upon them (whatever the men want).
Women are considered as objects and after their use, should be thrown by men.
The first line itself talks about the intensity of the forthcoming lines.
Poem fails to support the ideology of feminism and give importance to gender inequality.
“Set the snare” - women are being entrapped by beastly men, and have no "room" for escape, despite this not being the case in the real world.
Taking into consideration that the poem is written by a nun, the integrity or reliability of such a poem is lost. A nun shut down in a convent is the last person who would know anything.
Instead of showing women as beings who undergo suffering due to several factors, including men; the poet depicts the image of women’s misery because of the very existence of men alone, which is rather a bigoted opinion.
Through every line, a new negative undertone is added to the word "Men" and this is rather narrow-minded considering that they aren’t the only beings who fronted inequality towards women.

The society as a whole leads to the suffering of women. The poem fails to convey that view by being highly