Gender Inequality In Christopher Columbus

In modern day Christopher Columbus is still very relevant today as teachers teach their students with history mentioning Columbus. Because of this, Columbus is a very well-known person and people remembered him as the man who discovered that the Earth wasn’t flat. During the year 1492, Christopher Columbus has set a twelve-year period voyage and later discovered the Caribbean, Central, and South America. The purpose of his voyages is to find a sea route to the East and this made Europe benefit from it because it was a cheaper way to transport goods and riches rather than the route in Asia. He also wanted the natives to convert to Christianity. Many Europeans during that era considered Columbus a hero and that even today America recognize him …show more content…
In the book, Catalina de Erauso was training herself to become a nun at the age of fifteen. But didn’t accomplish it because she had a disagreement with dona Catalina de Aliri and hurt her. She later decides that becoming a nun wasn’t for her and that she felt that she had to escape and ameliorate her well-begin. She then dresses like a man, cuts her hair and leaves the place as far as she can (4). Catalina did not have any goal in mind but she starts to become someone else because of the clothes she’s wearing. During that time era, men were honored with clothes that make them bulge and wealthy. Being rebellious herself she starts to fight and murders men. She then got charged with murder but tries to outrun the law. Yet what she displays is much like a man and that people didn’t judge her. She’s too good for a girl that can do manly things because no woman was ever considered like that. Therefore, her status in life becomes respectable. She had so many opportunities when she was dress like a man. For instance, she was the only women to see the New World, had taken many different jobs and was offered to become a Lieutenant all because she was dress like a man. It’s difficult to comprehend how men are treated this way and that many men can rank their status at the top by just showing this types of characteristics. While women can’t because they only practice becoming a nun. If Catalina became a nun she wouldn’t experience the things she’d experience. Yet, in the end, she goes to Naples when two young women were laughing at her she a replied, “I have come to deliver one hundred strokes to your pretty little necks, and a hundred gashes with this blade to the fool who would defend your honor” (80). Being dressed normally no one paid attention to her and its downcast how no one recognizes her hard work she put in when she