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- Title: The Threat of Rape in Leonor De La Cueva's La Firmeza En La Ausencia (Critical Essay)
- Author : Romance Notes
- Release Date : January 01, 2007
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 198 KB
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RAPE is an all too common motif in the literature of the Golden Age. In many cases the rapist is someone of high socio-economic privilege, such as the Comendador in Lope de Vega's Fuente Ovejuna or Don Juan Tenorio in Tirso de Molina's El burlador de Sevilla. In addition, most potential rape victims do, in fact, become actual rape victims, although the rapes often take place offstage in the case of drama or while the female victim is unconscious (Miguel de Cervantes's La fuerza de la sangre and Maria de Zayas's La inocencia castigada and La esclava de su amante, to name but a few) in the case of narrative, likely for reasons of decorum and as a means to highlight the female rape victim's innocence and noncompliance. What is unique about Leonor de la Cueva's rendering of the topic in her drama La firmeza en la ausencia is the fact that the rapist is the king and the potential rape victim Armesinda is never actually raped, although the threat is omnipresent. Cueva allows her heroine Armesinda to successfully dissuade her rapist, the king Filiberto, for a time, by using her wit and her intelligence, thereby allowing her to appear to be the agent of her own defense, at least up to a point. It is precisely this point--the king's threatened rape--and the questions it provokes that merit a more detailed analysis of the omnipresent menace that does not ultimately occur. A number of questions that warrant consideration are: I. Why does Leonor de la Cueva represent the king as the rapist?
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