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

her era, Don Manuel Fernandez de Santa Cruz does not approve Sor Juana and was against women trying to read and write. He set out to sabotage her career as he leaked a letter of hers to ruin her reputation. The letter bishop leaked out is Sor Juana’s critiqued a famous 40 -year-old Jesuit sermon. Sor Juana uses the Polemical style in her book and made a successful argument against the bishop.

Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz is an illegitimate child. Her father is Spanish and her mother is Creole. Her grandfather was the person that raised her. Sor Juana had a special talent and passion of reading and writing. After reading all her grandfather’s book, she concluded an idea to ask her mother to send her to University of Mexico. Juana’s mother dresses her with male clothes to be able to camouflage inside University of Mexico. At age of ten, Ramirez realize Juana had the talent of literature, so she gave an opportunity for Juana to study in Mexico City. After studying alone Juana desired to further seek a life of independence and freedom from authority. Which was very rare to have a women loves reading and writing and bypassing the infection of era of trending women in housework. She didn’t want to be a member in the higher class, she decided to become a sister, and separation from the world to find her religious and non-religious worry she became a famous Sor (sister) in the Spanish era.

Polemical style’s is to disappoints the readers and force its members to recognize your position even if they do not agrees. The Bishop of Mexico was pretending to be impressed by her, asked Sor Juana to put her critique on the sermon in writing. The bishop published Sor Juana’s writing without her knowing and send her a response with a harsh critique he wrote under the name Sor Filotea de la Cruz. When Sor Juana respond to the Bishop’s critique, Sor Juana uses the polemical style. An example of her polemical style in her “Respose to the most Illustrious Poetess Sor Filotea De La Cruz”, she stated, “allow me to kiss your hand, your most favored” (75). This gave a very good example of polemical style because this show Sor Juana able to use sarcasm, satire and invective. At first, this quote may look like a respectful response to Sor Filotea and it was actually praising him, but she was saying this while illustrate Sor Filotea as a women. Sor Juana was calling the bishop, Don Manuel Fernandez de Santa Cruz, a woman. Which mean she does not accept the bishop the right to have education and should let the women to be education and have a better use of it. Another quote she responded “the most illustrious poetess Sor Filotea de la Cruz” (1). Sor Juana uses sarcasm, invective, satire, wit, stunning to upset and insult the bishop.

Sor Juana’s uses of polemical style was very effective.

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

writings.

Writings often reflect the treatment of women in the Spanish colonization of the Americas. In the meantime, women are expected to stay at home to ensure the absolute male domination. Sor Juana in one of the most famous poem, "In a lighter vein," laughed th men always assume women want to be blamed. From the beginning of the poem, in a row, Sor Juana mockery refers to men. This will give a hint of the atmosphere for the rest of the poem, the reader will automatically Sor Juana induction treat male population sarcastic attitude. She continued to point out that men blame their own right of "female frivolous". Although the men claimed that women are gentle people, Saul Juana shows that men have no sense of security, they are afraid to cry.

Because of her brave, that wrote the text “Reply to Sor Filotea”. Sor Juana was defended the rights of women and the rights rights of women to have access to education, and condemned the Church for helping to keep women uneducated. Sor Juana explained the ways in which she believed education could be used to serve God and recounted her own life-long struggle to pursue education in a society that did not believe women should be learned. For daring to stand up to the patriarchal and misogynist policies of the Church, Sor Juana was officially censured. She was no longer allowed to publish her work, reading her work was prohibited by the Church and she was forced to give away her library of books. She died in the convent in 1695.

For example, critiques, Sister Juana’s response is very secretive but deliberately states her views about her no religious rights in her work.

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

era.

Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz influenced the feminist movement by specifically motivating personally, by focusing on one specific work from Sor Juana has influenced my views on the feminist movement. Many have recognize her as the mother of rights of women. Her use of Polemical style and the use of subordinating style sentence was very effective. Her sarcasm and irony helped her polemical style of argument and gave the audience to recognize her point of view. If you don’t read the passage careful, you will not see Sor Juana’s sarcasm is include in the passage. And by reading her “response to the most illustrious poetess Sor Filotea De La Cruz” she argued with the bishop was very jarring.