Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Graf, Eric Clifford

Titel

The She-Wolf and Her Prey: Cervantes, Aristotle, and Smith on Slavery

Ist Teil von

• Cervantes (Gainesville, Fla.), 2020-03, Vol.40 (1), p.157-176

Ort / Verlag

Newark: Cervantes Society of America

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

Quelle

Bibliografía de la Literatura Española

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• There's servitude as a metaphor for love, whereby crazy men are captivated by objects of desire, as in Don Quijote's devotion to Dulcinea in part one, chapter one or Tosilos's enchantment by the daughter of Doña Rodríguez in part two, chapter fifty-six; and as we see in Torralba's fixation on Lope Ruiz in part one, chapter twenty or Altisidora's obsession with Don Quijote in part two, chapter seventy, women are also prone to amorous captivity. Essentially, Vitoria allowed that Spanish cruelty and hypocrisy sustained and amplified the notion of "invincible ignorance," a concept whereby those Amerindians who had not yet heard the gospel could not be condemned to the same degree as apostates, Jews, or Muslims. Sancho alludes to this unspoken law very early in the novel when, after casting aside his master's chivalric laws, he claims that divine and human laws have already granted him the right to resist force: "Bien es verdad que en lo que tocare a defender mi persona no tendré mucha cuenta con esas leyes, pues las divinas y humanas per- miten que cada uno se defienda de quien quisiere agraviarle" (1.8:99). [...]a few chapters after he pins his master to the ground with his knee and declares his independence, Sancho manages to negotiate a per unit labor contract with him in part two, chapter seventy-one.