ESL 185 Writing Assignment Maria Zuniga Book Report December 9‚ 2005 Corrections “Sor Juana” is a biography of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz written by Octavio Paz and translated by Margaret Sayers Peden. It is a book of 470 pages divided in six parts that besides Sor Juana’s life and work‚ explain the difficulties of the time for an intellectual woman. It was published by The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press Cambridge‚ Massachusetts in 1988. Reading this book gave me the
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heaven and compares them to the performance some people project to “prove” they are devoted and more spiritually involved than others. In Act I Scene VI‚ while Cleante expresses his concerns to Orgon about his utter willingness to believe and follow Tartuffe without fail‚ Orgon explains his case of how he came about knowing this holy man and what great man he truly is. He speaks fondly of Tartuffe’s protectiveness over his wife‚ his refusal to take all the money Orgon offers him‚ how he gives a portion
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The Portrait of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz is by Miguel Cabrera and was created around 1750. The artwork depicts a portrait of a Catholic nun‚ Sor Juana. The artwork is located in Latin America in the Spanish colonies of Mexico. Sor Juana joined the religious order of the Catholic Church and became a nun in order to pursue her intellectual interests. Sor Juana is depicted looking straight at the view and the iconography of the portrait is quite typical of nun portraits from 18th century Mexico. She
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an escudo de monger on. An escudo de monger is basically a nun’s badge that displays the Virgin Mary. It also informs people that she will bear the son of God and spread the word of God with everyone she can. As shown above and in the painting‚ Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz was very involved in the religious orders and
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play Sor Juana the main character Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz was considered to be one of the earliest feminists. Sor Juana’s eternal struggles to study and unshakable craving for knowledge and wisdom‚ from whatever source it may be‚ support this attribute. In my opinion however‚ there are also significant elements of the play that suggest that Sor Juana would not be considered a true feminist. Of these reasons‚ there are three major ones that I will analyze. The first reason is that Sor Juana
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There are similarities and differences in the views of love expressed in “The Passionate Shepherd” and “The Nymph’s Reply.” The passionate shepherd believes that love can be bought through gifts. While in “The Nymph’s Reply” the Nymph believes that love can’t be bought. The shepherd is buying/getting the Nymph gifts to try and persuade he to come live where the weather is peaceful but the Nymph does not want to leave her home.The shepherd thinks that being materialistic‚ it can buy love. The nymph
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There is a myriad of historical ideas that surprised me during this reading. My top three surprising historical highlights are The Globe‚ Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz‚ and the Spanish theatre‚ corrales. Throughout my whole learning experiences‚ I have never come across the corrales. Usually‚ I would learn about how Spanish is very religious based and how they are very well-known for discovering New Worlds. I would always hear Christopher Columbus and Ferdinand Magellan. I never really learned about
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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
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Operation Fakeness In this first chapter of Await Your Reply‚ it foreshadows the idea of fakeness that will occur throughout the story. Ryan’s hand which‚ “is resting on a bed of ice in an eight-quart Styrofoam cooler”‚ plays a significant role in the idea of “fake” in this book. Styrofoam is a material that can never be broken down or decomposed hence it is a fake or artificial material. Since the author puts much emphasis on calling it an “eight-quart Styrofoam cooler” instead of just a
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Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz was an exceptional seventeenth-century nun who set precedents for feminism long before the term or concept existed. Her "Respuesta" is a maverick work outlining the logical sense of women’s education more than 200 years before Woolf’s "A Room of One’s Own." Her poetry‚ meanwhile‚ states in bold language the potency of the feminine in both love and religion. Juana Inés Ramirez was born out of wedlock to Isabel Ramirez and Manuel de Asbaje in a small village in Mexico
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