Effectiveness Of Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz

In the seventeenth century, it is the Spanish Golden age which is a period of arts and literature in the area of Spain. During the Spanish Golden age were denied the women the right of an equal opportunity as the men, and made them do housework and forbid them from the chase of knowledge. Not all women have the courage to stand out and for their self and changes what is wrong during their era. And this era came along a nun that will be the role model for feminism for existing long period of time, this woman is Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz. The word “Sor” is in her name because she is a sister, a nun. She is a poet and a writer. Her poetry, meanwhile, states in bold language the potency of the feminine in both love and religion. Yet, a bishop in

The mind war between Sor Juana and the Bishop grab the audience’s attention and made the audience want to read more. The evident of Effectiveness of Sor Juana polemical style is when she asking to “kiss her hand”. Which symbolic the kisser is definitely a woman. And she manage to upset the Bishop successfully. The assertion show that Sor Juana was right about the argument with the Bishop and sho quoted the things Bible and church with any illegal doing. Sor Juana’s statement does not go out of the line from Bible and church. Her polemical style of argument was effective in this event because she point out how women were told that they does not have the right to get education. The book, How write a sentence and how to write one, by Standley Fish mentions how someone can do something, he say “if he liked sentences he could begin” (1), which Sor Juana really liked the use of Polemical style and be include in her

Not only she did not reveal bishop of Puebla and use an extreme respectful works by replying to the unreal name of Sor Juana’s name “Sor Filotea.” The theme of women’s, when especially on her, the power to have an education for the women and a non-religious nun in the entire of the reply. She corrected her theme by speaking of her own great gifted ability and actions as well as citing Biblical figures. She mention that if women was well educated the world would be better and not injured. She also quote, “if the Church…does not forbid it why must others?” (61).

While she was being criticized by the outside rumor of the De La Cruz, Sor Juana use the rest of her life facing for the women rights for a secular lifestyle. She response to the bishop very respect and she inputting her own reasoning and bible sources. Sor Juana leaves a big legacy in the chase of intellectual fairness between male and female in that time of era in Mexico. She consider a talented person with unlimited amount of polemical style ready to be put in her poems. She was consider one of the members of Golden Age of Spanish