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17th Century Life of Sor Juana de la Cruz

In eight pages this paper examines the life of what may well have been the first feminist in the Americas. Five sources are cit...

Seventeenth Century Works of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz

no father to pay a dowry, few choices were available to her. Juana could be the wife of a poor man, the mistress of a rich man, or...

History's First Feminist Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz

who "led an extremely worldly existence in the convent" (Mack, 1996, p. 13), defiance of the system was a way of life. She was qu...

Women's Defender Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz

library (Oregon State, 2006). By the time she was six years of age she had read everything in his library (Sor Juana Ines de la Cr...

Sor Juana De La Cruz

well as Spanish (Sunshine for Women, 1999). Robinson indicates she taught herself to read from the age of 3 (Robinson, 2006). When...

Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, Her Tone and Style

Convent of the Discalced Carmelites; however, this order proved to be too severe for her, as she became ill and left within three ...

Comparison of Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz's The Divine Narcissus and Luis de Gongora's Polyphemus and Galatea

and transform his blood into a river, which flows down the sides of the volcano, Mt. Aetna, into the sea at Catana. De la Cruzs T...

Comparison of 3 Stories and Passion v. Reason

It is interesting to note, however, that Molieres inspiration did not come from Corneilles comedic tendencies, but rather upon the...

The Writings of Three Mystics

This 15 page paper discusses the way in which three religious writers, Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz, Martin Buber and Teresa of Avila...

Flemish and Dutch Portrait Art of the 17th Century

In five pages paintings by artists de Hooch and Rembrandt are analyzed to explore the importance of portraiture to life in Flemish...

L'attente de Vladimir sur Godot

continuellement interrompu par Estragon. Il ne finit jamais lhistoire. En dautres termes, il doit continuer ? attendre Godot, o? G...

Life and Works of Artist Toulouse Lautrec

Toulouse Lautrec's life and art are explored in a paper consisting of 15 pages that includes his fin de siecle social involvement ...

Three Artistic Masterpieces Compared

However, the light strikes each man in varying degrees of intensity. This becomes the means by which Caravaggio penetrates the "su...

'Medici Cycle' of Peter Paul Rubens

of understanding into a cultures ideals and belief systems. The purpose of art, the creation of art, the interpretation of art, an...

Female Psychology in the Plays of Tirso de Molina

de Molina). Tirso showed direct hostility toward the "culterianismo" in plays such as Amar por arte mayor and La Celosa de si mi...

Documento de Ropa Campesina Medieval

al parecer a mucho del tiempo (Learner.org, 2005). los "capotes de la zalea y los sombreros y los mittens de lana fueron usados e...

Sixteenth Century Abandoned Wife Bertrande de Rols

precludes any acknowledgement of anyone outside of the upper classes of any society, however. The "common people" receive little ...

Nineteenth Century Art and Modernity

During the nineteenth century, all aspects of European culture were affected by the advent of the Industrial Revolution and the ad...

François de La Rochefoucauld and Blaise Pascal

pessimistic about human beings and their propensity toward self-love. He thinks of virtually all human relationships as being driv...

A Review of The Princess of Cleves

An 8 page essay reviewing the novel by Marie de La Fayette. This so called women's novel provides interesing insight into French h...

2 Poems by Robert Herrick Analyzed

of the seasons, which have been going on their course throughout all of history. "And Titan on the eastern hill / Retires himself,...

The Death of Artemio Cruz by Carlos Fuentes

war, he also lost the only woman who ever loved him. Fuentes has him pay for his greed and love of power in that all of the subseq...

Early French Modern Society and a Hypothetical Debate on the Status of Women and Men at the Time

woman. She was portrayed as being virtuous, committed to her family, and obstinately determined to succeed in her tasks. Davis nee...

Early Modern Society of France and Men's and Women's Status

a patriarchal world would be a gross understatement and one that would also be staunchly supported by the likes of both Bertrande ...

Life in Mexico by Frances Calderon de la Barca II

In five pages this text on early nineteenth century Mexican life is discussed within the context of what it must have been like fo...

Life in Mexico by Frances Calderon de la Barca

In five pages this text's portrayal of nineteenth century Mexican life is examined in a discussion of such topics as social class ...

17th Century Puritan Clergyman Ralph Josselin and His Family Life

In five pages this paper discusses the family life of Puritan moderate minister Ralph Josselin as chronicled in his diaries....

Gangraena by Thomas Edwards is a Window into 17th Century Life

This essay explores this famous work from the perspective of what it reveals to the reader about the seventeenth century. Edwards...

A Reading of Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

imagine the author mocking him in the following description, "Having quite lost his wits, he fell into one of the strangest conce...

Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quijote de la Mancha

In five pages this story is examined in terms of its male and female characterizations. Four sources are cited in the bibliograph...