Her arguement seems to be that the Aztecs fell as she says "not because Malinali interpreted for and slept with Cortes, but becasuse the ruling elite had subverted the solidarity between women and men and between noble and commoner." The arguement is weakened by her lack of evidence (there doesnt seem to be any clear research or sources cited. She also provides no possible outcome of what would happen if this weren't the case, or no feasible way the Aztecs would have been able to stop Cortes if they hadn't downplayed the part of women in their society.
I believe that the arguement is also the reason why she wrote these pieces. That she is in her mind frame to under take this quest, which is to make people realize that we are all people. That color means nothing, that language yes maybe a barrier but we all bleed the same blood. She uses the Aztec as examples of what happened when the segregated man and woman, conquerers and conquered. That is what she is saying ultimatly lead to the down fall of such an Empire. Though if she is applying that she is to undertake this cosmic duty she does a poor job. In my eyes the only refrence she has to herself and this "Cosmic Duty," is she talks bout the snake goddess as Mexico's protector and her early childhood memory of when she was bite by a snake.
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Her arguement seems to be that the Aztecs fell as she says "not because Malinali interpreted for and slept with Cortes, but becasuse the ruling elite had subverted the solidarity between women and men and between noble and commoner." The arguement is weakened by her lack of evidence (there doesnt seem to be any clear research or sources cited. She also provides no possible outcome of what would happen if this weren't the case, or no feasible way the Aztecs would have been able to stop Cortes if they hadn't downplayed the part of women in their society.
I believe that the arguement is also the reason why she wrote these pieces. That she is in her mind frame to under take this quest, which is to make people realize that we are all people. That color means nothing, that language yes maybe a barrier but we all bleed the same blood. She uses the Aztec as examples of what happened when the segregated man and woman, conquerers and conquered. That is what she is saying ultimatly lead to the down fall of such an Empire. Though if she is applying that she is to undertake this cosmic duty she does a poor job. In my eyes the only refrence she has to herself and this "Cosmic Duty," is she talks bout the snake goddess as Mexico's protector and her early childhood memory of when she was bite by a snake.
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