The rejection lived by women
Introduction
The first crazy (1881) of Rosalía de Castro has as an argument the story that makes a friend the protagonist of the story about how he submitted to superstitious rites to end the pain he felt. During that story, there is the influence that two women have in their life and that, at the end of the work, it will be the love that he professes for the first one and the fact that he does not correspond to him, the reason why thewho will completely lose your head. This obsessive love is clearly a case of romantic love.
What do we understand as romantic love? Romantic love is the conception of love as an extremely idealized feeling that seeks to find someone who complements us, and which leads to the acquiring and conserving that person to be superior to the physiological and well -being needs of the individual himself. This conception, which has its origin probably in Plato’s banquet, makes individuals leave everything for their beloved person and even take us, today, to kill or die in the name of love.
Developing
In the work, Luis, the protagonist, considers his beloved an angel and a being whom to idolize above all things, although his relationship with her is brief. ” A desecration having to use with that semi-divine creature the same common language as with those that were only vulgar daughters of Eva ” (Castro) in addition to even accepting God’s punishment in order not to give up it ”I feel with the strength of giving up every mundane interest, all of Ventura, even to eternal glory … but to her, Lord, I can’t’ ‘(Castro).
This exorbitant love is not seen as something very negative throughout the work;On the contrary, many characters sympathize with the protagonist because they believe that they are not to blame for processing such love and that it is, rather, the fault of the woman who loves, who is described on numerous occasions as a haughty woman and without feelings forDo not correspond to you. He is also considered inhuman for not playing ‘his role as a woman’: ensure the maintenance of the relationship, seek the well -being of his partner, surrender to his wishes.
In short, for being a woman who makes decisions for her own well -being. This romantic love in the work not only has consequences for the protagonist, nor only for his beloved, but also for Esmeralda, a 16 -year -old girl who falls in love in the same form of Luis and who has the worst end in the work. Endures his blows and insults since he is the only person with whom he speaks and establishes a relationship of dependence such that when he abandons him (since he reminds him of his love) he seeks to perish and ends up dying after abandoning his own care.
And having focused all his feelings in that ‘other complementary person’. ‘‘ Because if I will not die of grief, and to die I want to die like that, hugged his knees and dragging at his feet like a dog ’’ ’. In real life, that romantic love also converts the love relationships of people into dependents and often give rise to gender violence, excusing abuse with phrases like ‘is that he told me that he was going to change’, where he forgivesThe other person because he loves us, that sexual relations are kept by the other person, etc.
A room (1929) by Virginia Woolf. Femininity as a negative quality and its consequences on women. An its own room is an essay that Virginia Woolf performs as a form of answer to the public of their conferences to women and literature. Throughout the book he investigates the obstacles that women have had to face to write and, in general, as the miserable consideration has influenced that this genre has had in the way in which women are represented in fiction andThe literary production of these.
The fact that women have been considered as intellectually inferior beings throughout history has made anything supposedly related to them and their tastes have always been seen with hostility and contempt by men. This not only remains, obviously, in a degradation of all female production, but also in a contempt for all feelings or quality traditionally attributed to women: sentimentality, concern for others, detail, vulnerability.
Which has had as serious consequences an exaltation of its harmful opposite: null shows of feelings, virility and domination, aggressiveness, with the objective of differentiating as much as possible from that half of humanity to which they do not want to seeCreator motor for their works, being the women of their lives many times muses. Woolf throughout the essay emphasizes that men show the most possible from women (also in literature) to maintain a false sense of security and control over their lives.
They only get obtaining over half of the world’s population. But what consequences does this have in the lives of women and in their literary production? Addressing the first issue, this hatred of femininity and women have made them also develop an unconscious hatred of things traditionally classified as feminine, a hatred towards certain attitudes of women and and even towards their own tastes with the aim of havingan approval look by men.
This is seen in childhood when many girls reject activities that they like (and that relate to their gender) and turn especially in activities related to the male gender to be considered as part of them and be differentiated from other girls, towho see as rivals in their objective of being recognized and respected by the dominant genre of society. This translates into literature as a repression of many characteristics of female writing, which is narrated by Woolf in Chapter 5.
Where it analyzes a book of a woman of her time and where she notes that she is too concise, which demonstrates a fear by the author to call her sentimental (negative), and that, therefore, her work is despised by the gazemale. fashion, interpersonal relationships.
Instead of much more admired issues such as war, being a savior, violence, etc. In short, women should be able to enjoy what they want and write about the issues they want without their work being disabled. Comparison of both works: the female characters and the relationships that are established between them. In chapter 3 of its own room, Woolf speaks of the paradoxical that is that while in literature women are often protagonists of strong, heroic and multifaceted personalities, in the reality of the time they were ignored and subjected to others.
However, a common thing in the works where they are protagonists and in which they simply act as stars that orbit around men, are that they never create ties between them that are not either of enmity or maternal. In the case of the former, in addition, that enmity is normally because of a man. Under those alleged strong personalities, characters that only support or useful for another male character are hidden many times. Another characteristic of these characters is that they barely interact a relationship of friendship or loving between them.
Even evidence has been developed such as the Bedchel test (which is inspired by the same chapter 5 of this essay) to see if the female characters are independent in some way in that male sphere that surrounds them. Relizing this to the first madman we see that the characters of Berenice and Esmeralda are very relevant to the course of the work, but that they do not even know, they have rather flat personalities and are constantly compared to each other by the protagonist. Another female character within the work is that of Berenice’s best friend.
She only serves to tell Luis that she does not love her and that, it is not his fault who does not want her, but the fault of her, which was not precisely bad, but simply superficial flirtatious "(Castro) in all the workThe opinions or feelings of women in depth are not perceived at any time;They only act as instruments through which the protagonist approaches its end. Would have changed dramatically (and perhaps for the better) that in many works the female characters had supported each other and would stop competing for a man.
Not only for literature, but for the reality of women. That relationships similar to those that the male characters had;of brotherhood, support … may have created positive values in women and would have led them to stop comparing each other and to look more like free individuals who live for themselves and not to please anyone else. The sexuality of women: in chapter 5 of their own room there is also talk of how women in literature were always represented from opposite positions ‘‘ its alternate between a heavenly goodness and an infernal depravation ’’ (Woolf) (Woolf).
This typecasting of the personality of women so extremist only leads to dehumanization and in which it becomes an instrument that brings ruin or extreme joy to the man in question. It is not observed as another human being that does things for its own benefit, but as someone who seeks to cause a reaction in others. Dhonding in this perception of women, we find that for Luis in the first crazy Berenice is a reflection of what it really is;In her imagination, he encloses her and observes her as a fragile and unable to do any damage.
As a heavenly and pure creature that, however, belongs to him and to the one who wants to desecrate. This image far from the personality that Berenice really has, leads him to think that he must defend it from everyone and to develop violent and jealous attitudes towards his fiance, since he sees him as someone who will desecrate his poor treasure (although he himselfwant to do the same). It transforms it into an object of its possession and someone to whom you want to hide and use for your own benefit;‘His soul was not enough for me, he loved all of her also to possess her body that another had stolen me;I needed everything, all for me alone.’
conclusion
Here it looks like the woman is treated as a dehumanized being who is either a vulnerable, pure and innocent being or is a demon that can bring ruin to men if she decides to reject them after getting their friendship or deciding on their own sexuality. Another case of literature where it is observed that the perception of a character quickly changes for rejecting men in favor of their own freedom, is in chapters 12 and 13 of El Quijote. In them, it is developed that many men intend to a beautiful woman who praised continuously but that, after rejecting them.
They consider it a haughty being who seeks the misfortune of men for not accepting their love. This is reflected in real life;where many men sexualize women constantly for their own consumption while advocating a woman’s reclation. In short, women’s sexuality is only fine if used for male consumption and, otherwise, it seeks to provoke and enraged men.
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