Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz Analysis

Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz came from a poor family, which meant that she did not have too many opportunities to have an education since women could not have the same opportunities that men did. When Juana Ines was a little girl she had a passion to read and at the young age of eight Juana Ines began to write.

Juana Ines still wanted to study since she had a vast knowledge with reading books and was really intelligent. Although she did not have an adequate education she had found ways to be taught with the help of her grandfather’s books that were old and there weren’t that many, but she liked spending time reading those books. Juana Ines still wanted to study and asked her mother to let her go study at one of the universities in Mexico, but …show more content…
Sor Juana Ines became the first feminist of America with her life decision that defied societies norms which gave influence to later generations, by writing a response to a criticism by a priest in which she defends woman's right to education, and finally, by defending woman from societies criticisms in her …show more content…
One particular critic she had to face was with a priest pretending to be Sor Filotea in order to convince Sor Juana Ines to focus on her religious duties instead of her studies. Sor Juana Ines responds in her letter, "It follows that many parents choose to keep their daughters uncouth and uneducated rather than expose them to such a notoriously perilous familiarity with men. But all this would be avoided if there were educated elderly women, as St. Paul desires, and if the teaching profession were passed from one generation of women to the next just as what happens with sewing and all other customary skills... " As it said, she believes that in order for women to be better involve with men, they should educate themselves. With this letter becoming one of the earliest or one of the feminist of her