Read Kataris’s article, “Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz” and Respond to the questions below regarding the text.
1) As a woman of the Renaissance, was Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz of her time or before her time? Explain.
2) Do you see any connection between the themes represented in her poems to the themes in Shakespeare’s verse reproduced on the last page of the article? Explain.
3) Five years before Juana Ines was born, Thomas Browne stated that the philosophy of hermeticism perceived the “visible world but a portrait of the invisible.” How does that apply to Juana Ines’s view of the world and her place in that world?
4) Compare Juana Ines de la Cruz’s dream references to Descartes’ Dream Argument. Do you see any connection?
5) How does Juana Ines de la Cruz’s work echo Plato’s Theory of Forms, spoken of in Gendler’s animated video of the Allegory of the Cave, where Plato talks of concepts such as beauty, goodness, and truth both as ideals and as reality whose earthly manifestations are mere shadows of those ideals.
6) In what way is the world a “hieroglyph”?
MLA Format not required. Simply respond to the questions.
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