Calderon De La Barca's Life Is A Dream

Eulalia Perez was a housekeeper in a California mission. The source, written in 1823, is an account of the lives of women in the missions. Perez’s account helps people from later on learn about life in Spanish colonization of Mexico.

Julia Alvarez introduces Trujillo's vanity and obsession with examples of what he was doing while she was growing up. Julia Alvarez explains in the text how Trujillo "Vanity knew no bounds." In the text it states how, " his uniforms were trimmed with tassels and gold epaulettes and red sashes....all of this in a tropical country where men wore guayaberas."

In the story “The Stolen Party” by Liliana Heker, a girl named Rosaura is invited to a party by her best friend Luciana. She tells her mom many things about the party. Her mom does not think that she should go because it is a “rich peoples” party. The day of the party Rosaura finds that her mom has starched her dress. Later her mother washes her hair and rinses it with apple vinegar. When she arrives at the party she asks Luicana about the monkey. Luciana tells her that the monkey is in the kitchen, but she doesn't want her to tell anyone. Rosaura goes to the kitchen, and the monkey is there. Luciana’s mom, Senora Ines, tells Rosaura that she is the only one allowed in the kitchen and asks her to take the orange juice out. Later,

At the same time, by comparing herself to Dolores Del Rio, the author expresses that the nameless lover has the power to evoke the beautiful/elegant actress that is hidden inside of her. As well as being able to evoke “the Mexican spitfire,” this describes her as a temperamental woman.

Social media today, women are pressed to be sexually attractive, while men are represented as being physically desirable, aggressive and violent. Back in the Elizabethan era, when Shakespeare's classic tragic star-crossed love story of Romeo and Juliet was performed, this standard of men and women would have been considered as normal. In Elizabethan times women were considered as objects that could be used to forge alliances with other powerful families through arranged marriages whereas men were of higher rank than women. With the exception if Romeo and Juliet Shakespeare reinforces the stereotypical Elizabethan man and women. But, in Baz Luhrmann, 1996 film of the play, does he follow or challenge the way Shakespeare originally represented males and females?

In Euripides’s The Bacchae and in William Shakespeare’s As You Like It, I found the gender roles in these particular plays to be very interesting because this was my first exposure to cross-dressing in works of literature. In The Bacchae, women play a huge role because women are often portrayed as feminine and inferior in many past works, however, in The Bacchae, the women of Thebes decide to rebel against the men and join the Greek God of grape harvesting, wine, fertility, and partying, in the woods. The women were manipulated by Dionysus and were turned into maenads because they joined Dionysus and rejected the norms for women, to stay in their place and they all went from the first world they were living in, Thebes, to the second world,

In “A Stolen Party” by Liliana Heker, Rosaura tries to fit in throughout the story, but the others see her as nothing more than the maid’s daughter. The others do not take Rosaura seriously because of her social class. In “A Stolen Party” the author uses symbolism to convey a theme that although you try to change you will always be the person others see you as.

In Shakespeare’s ‘Othello’, women are portrayed as either pure angelic beings and jewels, or as whores who are impure. They are objectified and shown as something to be used. The only women in this play are Desdemona, Emilia and Bianca compared to the main 6 male characters, not to mention the minor characters, who are also all male. Their depicted purpose is to belong to a man; Desdemona, Emilia and Bianca’s lives revolve around being wives to Othello, Iago and Cassio. This fits into the idea of a perfect Elizabethan woman, who’s lives are subject to their husband’s rule across all aspects, to be disposed of as men wish. Each female character is treated by men as a possession. However, there are also moments when they are presented as confident and challenge a male authority. This would have been exiting for Shakespeare’s female Elizabethan audience as women

Viola, Cesario, Olivia, and Duke Orsino together form a comedy with consistently homoerotic undertones that explores the fluidity of gender. Though queer theory is rarely explicit in works such as Shakespeare, it is critical to analyze older texts to gain a clearer picture of queer identity before modern

There is some speculation of women pretending to be men in these times to play female characters as that was the only way they could be on stage. This, however, can’t be proven. The perception in society was that the theater was better suited for men. The roles of women in English drama were all roles conceived by men, because all the ancient playwrights were men. It is a testament to how great theater of the time was that it became so popular with men speaking love soliloquies to each other. The few characters that happened to be women in these early plays lacked strength, personalities,

Discuss the ways in which Rosario Castellanos challenges and subverts gender stereotypes in her work?

One similarity between the painting “Clothing and Status in Colonial Mexico” and “Public Procession of the King’s Women” is the way women are portrayed to be “lesser” than their male counterparts. In the “Public Procession of the King’s Women”, women of African descent are put on display for male slave merchants and officials to view. Because the viewers are European while the women are African, one might expect the display could be because of racial differences. While this may also be true, seated on the ground to the left of the table shows two darker skinned men also viewing the procession. This portrays the women in the engraving to be nothing more than objects to be displayed the presence of males, portraying them to be lesser in status. In the “Clothing and Status in Colonial Mexico”, the man wears the more European-style outfit with the porcelain on his side of the painting, while the woman wears a traditional garb while she carries

“ No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background or his religion. People learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes naturally to the human heart than its opposite “ - Nelson Mandela. This quote from Nelson Mandela shows that racial prejudice is taught, because no one is born with hating another person from a different culture or race. Many people are affected by this on a daily basis due to stereotypes we hear about other cultures while growing up. Due to this, racial prejudice, judgement, and violence are reasons why people should accept others who are different from themselves.

It was expected back then that only men had the capacity to handle such jobs as lawyers so Portia had no choice but to disguise herself as a man to become a lawyer. Society during that time, believed that women weren’t intelligent enough to take on such roles. Women in the Merchant of Venice go against their gender roles. Men did not think that women could ever be as smart as they were, and did not listen or take advice from women that is why Portia had to dress up as a man just to get the men to listen to her and Antonio was saved just because of her intelligence. Here is revealed the idea of love that women can do everything to see their husbands