I, the worst of all
Twenty first century, it is probably the best time for humans to live in. Now, we have curable diseases, technology that helps us in our everyday life and our living expectation is close to 80 years old. It sounds like we’ve accomplish a lot as humans beings, however, there’s still something that does not let us advance and become a unified society free of racism and sex stereotypes, the male gaze. Gay people and for the most part women, still the most affected with this archaic ideology that was created many centuries ago. The catholic religion was the mayor influence that encouraged that ideology. Males being the predominant group imposed it so women can be seen as “objects” to be posses and desire and not to be seen …show more content…
She started writing about the injustice of the society towards women, she emphasized how males even in the church ruled and controlled mostly everything. She also wrote poems called sonnets, accentuating the inequality of women and how they are treated as this cliché where the woman should be at home taking care of children, illiterate and naïve. One this famous sonnets is called “Hombres Necios” that translates in English “Foolish Men”, she accused them of behaving illogically by condemning women all the time. Furthermore, she used to write letters criticizing the archbishop and one Franciscan priest. She did this incognito under the name of Sor Filotea, she even wrote letters to herself. In those letters, she talk about how she was used as an instrument and not as equal as the males. The archbishop discovered the truth behind the letters and who was the one writing them. Sor Juana was summoned before the council of priest and the archbishop, they told her that because she was a nun she won’t be physically punish, however she would have to get rid off of her books and science instruments, also, she felt that part of her soul and essence was gone when she did that. As a final act of rebellion and defiance, she wrote a confession stipulating that she lived her life as a pagan and rebellious, signing it with her own blood and the words “I, the worst of
Twenty first century, it is probably the best time for humans to live in. Now, we have curable diseases, technology that helps us in our everyday life and our living expectation is close to 80 years old. It sounds like we’ve accomplish a lot as humans beings, however, there’s still something that does not let us advance and become a unified society free of racism and sex stereotypes, the male gaze. Gay people and for the most part women, still the most affected with this archaic ideology that was created many centuries ago. The catholic religion was the mayor influence that encouraged that ideology. Males being the predominant group imposed it so women can be seen as “objects” to be posses and desire and not to be seen …show more content…
She started writing about the injustice of the society towards women, she emphasized how males even in the church ruled and controlled mostly everything. She also wrote poems called sonnets, accentuating the inequality of women and how they are treated as this cliché where the woman should be at home taking care of children, illiterate and naïve. One this famous sonnets is called “Hombres Necios” that translates in English “Foolish Men”, she accused them of behaving illogically by condemning women all the time. Furthermore, she used to write letters criticizing the archbishop and one Franciscan priest. She did this incognito under the name of Sor Filotea, she even wrote letters to herself. In those letters, she talk about how she was used as an instrument and not as equal as the males. The archbishop discovered the truth behind the letters and who was the one writing them. Sor Juana was summoned before the council of priest and the archbishop, they told her that because she was a nun she won’t be physically punish, however she would have to get rid off of her books and science instruments, also, she felt that part of her soul and essence was gone when she did that. As a final act of rebellion and defiance, she wrote a confession stipulating that she lived her life as a pagan and rebellious, signing it with her own blood and the words “I, the worst of