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
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Women of God Before her Response to the alleged “Sor Filotea de la Cruz”‚ Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz who was a nun in what was called “New Spain” (at the time) had privately shared a commentary piece she wrote on a decades-old sermon which somehow fell into the hands of a bishop of Puebla who published said commentary in addition to his own thoughts on what Sor Juana had to say without her knowledge or consent. He did this under the pseudonym of “Sor Filotea de la Cruz” so that it would seem to anyone
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Tartuffe Mariane’s maid Dorine is a contradiction to the role or placement of women on a major and minor scale . From her persona to her actions dorine ‚is unafraid as a servant to speak her mind or place herself in a position that makes her seem equivalent to her superior or superiors. Fearless and honest‚ Dorine’s character in the play Tartuffe challenges the traditional biased of domestic roles of the female gender in general or in a whole during this period of time. “Don’t interrupt
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Cleante: A True Enlightenment Man Moliere’s Tartuffe is from 17th century France‚ during the Enlightenment‚ or the Age of Reason. The type of Enlightenment in the western culture differed from the Eastern Asian philosophies. Enlightenment thinkers put faith in reason and analysis in the Western culture. Tartuffe was born to a culture that valued the age of rationalism‚ or practical thinking‚ which had gradually departed from religious beginnings. Furthermore‚ people in Paris were interested
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Wooden1 Tartuffe Moliere’s Tartuffe‚ displays a hypocritical character who hides behind his so-called pity and uses it as a mask to get his desires. This character‚ Tartuffe‚ is a hypocrite who desires money and power and projects a false image. This comedy deals with disguise and religious hypocrisy. Tartuffe claims to be a godly man when in reality he is a manipulative man who uses his piety as a strength to get what he wants. In this story‚ Tartuffe convinces Orgon and Madame Pernelle that he
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Theme of Deception in Tartuffe Throughout time‚ man has used many forms of deception to get what they want. Moliere’s play Tartuffe is a classical story about deception and how a “mask” is used to hide someone’s true intentions. Moliere applies the idea of a mask and a theme of deception to exploit the power struggles within a traditional household. The character Tartuffe employs deception so he can achieve social and economical standings while Elmire‚ Mariane‚ and Dorine use deception to defy
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Moliere Creates Modern Comedy Author: Laun‚ Henri Van Moliere Creates Modern Comedy 1659 The seventeenth century was the period of a very remarkable literary outburst in France‚ an outburst which has done much to mould French genius of more recent times. The latter part of the century‚ which has been called the Augustan age of France‚ the age of Louis XIV‚ has certainly been but seldom equalled in the number and variety of the writers who adorned it. Yet it owes much of its brilliancy
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The comedy Tartuffe‚ written by Jean-Babtiste Moliere‚ is undoubtedly a satire; the question is what is the poem a satire of: the Catholic religion itself‚ or the hypocrites within the Church and their corruption? I believe the latter to be the focus of Moliere’s commentary. It is apparent throughout Tartuffe that Moliere has an admiration for religion‚ as practiced by genuinely pious and humble individuals. Cleante is a character who personifies rationality throughout the play. His character
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Study Questions: Moliere’s Tartuffe ACT I Please TYPE out your answers in complete sentences. Be mindful of sentence structure and grammar. 1. The opening scene shows Madame Pernelle confronting Orgon’s household and criticizing their lifestyle. In regards to the reader/audience‚ what purpose does this scene fulfill in terms of character analysis? The Purpose that this fulfills is that it indicates what personality the character has. It basically profiles the characters. 2. In
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Orgon Discussion In Tartuffe‚ Orgon is having his daughter marry a man that’s not who he seems to be. Although Orgon is easily fooled he becomes overly obsessed at how “perfect” Tartuffe is. This obsession continues to grow until it is finally mastered by Elmire. In the first act we learn how unnatural the beginning of the relationship is when all Orgon could do is rave about Tartuffe. It was to the point that there was absolutely nothing wrong with Tartuffe in the eyes of Orgon. In act 1 scene
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