The book of the City of Ladies
The book of the City of Ladies is a story written by Christine de Pizan between (c.1364-1430). Christine writes this book while depicting her opinions on women and in the book she tries to explain how women should live in the early 1400s. In the late medieval times, Pizan was considered to be a very progressive woman and this is clear in her writing “The book of the City of Ladies”. In her story, Pizan focuses on how each woman should carry herself and practice certain things in her life. Pizan’s experiences as a lesser noble creates her perception on this. Her experiences that she has had are that of an upper class woman. Pizan illustrates how women have been viewed negatively, unfairly and have been treated …show more content…
Pizan thus challenges the negative views that have been given by men towards the women in the male-literary world of that period. From her story, Pizan has never had a female role model thus, she uses her new ideas and insigths to view the women. Thus, she works with women in the story to provide guidance on how to survive without having to depend on man. The book is in stringing and Christine is the first woman writer in her times in the man era. Although she does not say literary that she wants to change the society, she illustrates this in the book. The book starts by her going through a book by Matheolus (Pizan, 1999). She starts "When I held it open and saw from its title that it was by Matheolus, I smiled, for though I had never seen it before, I had often heard that like other books it discussed respect for women". From her statement it is clear that Pizan is fighting for the women and anything that supports …show more content…
The play was first published in Madrid in 1619. There are several concepts that Lope de Vega writes about in the play and they all take part in 3 acts of the play. However, it is clear that the play is directed to show how the town and its people come together to fight the evil it faces. The people of the town come together and fight abuse, corruption and tyranny. Although the play revolves around the role of women, love and others, Lope de Vega shows how the people use such to strengthen them and fight the evil that faces them (Vega & Edwards, 2008).
In the plays first scene, there is the overtaking of Ciudad Real from the King Fernando and Queen Isabel of the Aragon by the master of Clatrava after being persuaded by the Commander. Amidst all this love between Frondoso and Laurencia springs and this does not make the commander happy. The commander Fernan Gomez feels like he is above others thus, he uses it to fore women to love him. He then tries to talk to Laurencia’s father and ask for his daughter but he is rejected. The play shows how brutal the commander was and this is shown from his character. Not only does he mistreat people, he rapes women and this is because of his position (Vega, 1999). Clearly, one can see that power was being misused by the commander and he oppressed the others. When Frondoso and Laurencia decide to marry each other, the commander interrupts their wedding and then arrests
The book of the City of Ladies is a story written by Christine de Pizan between (c.1364-1430). Christine writes this book while depicting her opinions on women and in the book she tries to explain how women should live in the early 1400s. In the late medieval times, Pizan was considered to be a very progressive woman and this is clear in her writing “The book of the City of Ladies”. In her story, Pizan focuses on how each woman should carry herself and practice certain things in her life. Pizan’s experiences as a lesser noble creates her perception on this. Her experiences that she has had are that of an upper class woman. Pizan illustrates how women have been viewed negatively, unfairly and have been treated …show more content…
Pizan thus challenges the negative views that have been given by men towards the women in the male-literary world of that period. From her story, Pizan has never had a female role model thus, she uses her new ideas and insigths to view the women. Thus, she works with women in the story to provide guidance on how to survive without having to depend on man. The book is in stringing and Christine is the first woman writer in her times in the man era. Although she does not say literary that she wants to change the society, she illustrates this in the book. The book starts by her going through a book by Matheolus (Pizan, 1999). She starts "When I held it open and saw from its title that it was by Matheolus, I smiled, for though I had never seen it before, I had often heard that like other books it discussed respect for women". From her statement it is clear that Pizan is fighting for the women and anything that supports …show more content…
The play was first published in Madrid in 1619. There are several concepts that Lope de Vega writes about in the play and they all take part in 3 acts of the play. However, it is clear that the play is directed to show how the town and its people come together to fight the evil it faces. The people of the town come together and fight abuse, corruption and tyranny. Although the play revolves around the role of women, love and others, Lope de Vega shows how the people use such to strengthen them and fight the evil that faces them (Vega & Edwards, 2008).
In the plays first scene, there is the overtaking of Ciudad Real from the King Fernando and Queen Isabel of the Aragon by the master of Clatrava after being persuaded by the Commander. Amidst all this love between Frondoso and Laurencia springs and this does not make the commander happy. The commander Fernan Gomez feels like he is above others thus, he uses it to fore women to love him. He then tries to talk to Laurencia’s father and ask for his daughter but he is rejected. The play shows how brutal the commander was and this is shown from his character. Not only does he mistreat people, he rapes women and this is because of his position (Vega, 1999). Clearly, one can see that power was being misused by the commander and he oppressed the others. When Frondoso and Laurencia decide to marry each other, the commander interrupts their wedding and then arrests