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Identifier	Thesis 2010
Author	Mendoza, Bienvenida, 1972-
Title	La representación de lo femenino en la obra de Cervantes : género y clase social en el Quijote
Publisher	Central Connecticut State University
Date	2009
Resource Type	Master's Thesis
Notes	The purpose of this thesis is to examine the representation of the feminine in the first and second parts of Cervantes's novel The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha, published respectively in 1605 and 1615. The novel incorporates the historic context of Spanish society spanning the end of the sixteenth century into beginning of the seventeenth century. The hero, Don Quixote, through his loyalty and the ideal of honor, fights for the rights of the downtrodden: peasants, common people, and women. Cervantes gave power to those who did no possess it in the Spanish society and presented them with ways to overcome their situations including women who he represents as a heterogeneous group from distinct socio-economic and ethnic backgrounds including working-class women, duchesses, prostitutes, pastors, villagers, damsels, servants, moriscas, among other groups. He shows both submissive women and rebellious ones. This thesis is divided in three sections. The first theme examines the depiction of women both in their roles as dictated by the society of that time and as individuals who managed to break with those social expectations. It also analyzes how Cervantes exposed the double oppression of women of lower class status, while showing that belonging to the privileged class did not exempt women from being forced into submission. Teresa Panza, an illiterate peasant, symbolizes women who, in the absence of their husbands, had to function on their own as the head of the family. Through this character and others, like Doa Rodriguez, Cervantes introduced a strong criticism of the inadequate salaries of that time, while through the character of the Dutchess he criticized the idleness and wasteful behavior of the rich ignoring the economic crisis in which the rest of the country lived. The second theme delineates the multiple examples in which Cervantes presented us with an alternative practical morality for women. He wrote about honor, based on the 'morality' and sacrifice of a woman. He included discourse about love and matrimony criticizing parents who arranged marriages in exchange for economic benefit without the consent of their daughters, as well as adultery and showed the deceit and insult that they suffered due to promises of marriage. Through the character of Camila, Cervantes criticizes adulterous men as harshly as he criticizes unfaithful women. He denounces the practice of placing the blame for a man's infidelity on the woman as the instigator of evoking a man's passion just as Eve 'tempted' Adam. The third theme analyzes how Cervantes emphasizes the role of those female characters that acted with freedom and control over their own lives breaking with the established social norms. Cervantes differs markedly from his contemporaries who, with few exceptions, represented women in conformity with the dominant patriarchical ideaology and did not question the status quo. Through the incorporation of multiple popular written and oral traditions, he shows us an alternative morality for women by including women who overcame the social norms such as the 'feminist' Marcela who decides not to marry and live free on her own in the countryside. He also touched on the delicate theme of religious discrimination with the characters of Zoraida and Ana Flix. In conclusion, Cervantes calls for the radical change of these unyielding norms regarding women in search of an equitable model of socio-cultural values based on a new rhetoric narrative by incorporating women of strong character who are clever and valiant and in doing so defended social justice for women.
Subject	Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616. Don Quixote -- Criticism and interpretation Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616. Don Quixote -- Characters -- Women
Department	Department of Modern Languages
Advisor	Cortés de Morales, Angela
Type	Text
Digital Format	application/pdf
Language	spa
OCLC number	713734318
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