Pocahontas y Malinche by Dilhun Develi

Pocahontas/ Matoaka

dilhundeveli1 — 2023-10-16 21:11:00 UTC

The Indians called Pocahontas, the daughter of their great chief, "Matoaka", meaning "playful". After John Rolfe and Pocahontas made the first British Indian marriage in the history of Virginia, he persuaded his wife to give up her religious beliefs. Contrary to the final scene of the movie, Pocahontas goes to England with her husband. With her hat on her head and the high lace collar on her dress, she is now an English woman saved from "vulgarity" and "barbarism"!

It is possible to see a reflection of the West's colonization of America at this point. A woman born as Matoaka dies as Rebecca, adapting people living their own culture to Western values and saving them from barbarism in their own way. The fact that this rescue process is carried out through two female figures from among the American Indians constitutes a key narrative for the manufacture of consent. While the West is colonizing America, it is justifying itself through two native women. At this point, Pocahontas and La Malinche have become a symbol of colonial history. At the same time, another noteworthy point is that the patriarchal structure puts female figures in front of society in every controversial situation and conducts ethical evaluations through women and femininity.

La Malinche

dilhundeveli1 — 2023-10-16 21:11:20 UTC

La Malinche is proof of how the concepts of women's honour and homeland, nation and nationalism have been intertwined for centuries. That's why they side with the enemy for their personal interests; She is a historical character portrayed as a woman who sold her homeland and could only become a mistress. It is evidence of our two-faced perception of history. There have been thousands of male characters throughout history who have sided with the enemy, but we do not talk about how any of them sold their honour or homeland and entered the enemy's arms. After all, we wouldn't think that a man who had sex with someone from a nation that was his "enemy" was under pressure. Perhaps Hernan Cortes defeated the Aztecs thanks to him, but even though centuries have passed, no one focuses on how he was captured or given as a slave to the Spanish by his family. The only thing that is focused on is that she became a mistress at the end of the incident. So much so that today, la Malinche's "mistressship" is used to humiliate the natives. A website included the following statements in the introduction of its article about Malinche: La La Malinche is proof of how the concepts of women's honour and homeland, nation and nationalism have been intertwined for centuries. That's why they side with the enemy for their personal interests; She is a historical character portrayed as a woman who sold her homeland and could only become a mistress. It is evidence of our two-faced perception of history. There have been thousands of male characters throughout history who have sided with the enemy, but we do not talk about how any of them sold their honour or homeland and entered the enemy's arms. After all, we wouldn't think that a man who had sex with someone from a nation that was his "enemy" was under pressure. Perhaps Hernan Cortes really defeated the Aztecs thanks to him, but even though centuries have passed, no one focuses on how he was captured or given as a slave to the Spanish by his family. The only thing that is focused on is that she became a mistress at the end of the incident. So much so that today, La Malinche's "mistressship" is used to humiliate the natives. A website included the following statements in the introduction of its article about Malinche:< La Malinche was a key figure in the conquest of the Aztecs. But was she a heroine or a traitor? It depends on whom you ask.<

While starting

dilhundeveli1 — 2023-10-16 21:42:16 UTC

It would not be wrong to say that both countries pursued similar goals during the colonization of America. The Spanish saw the dense population of indigenous peoples as an important economic resource and claimed that the region produced great wealth for the Spanish and the crown. Religion played an important role in the Spanish conquest and unification of indigenous peoples. People were converted to the Catholic Church, peacefully or by force. The crown created civil and religious structures to govern this vast territory. Spanish colonists settled in greatest numbers where there were dense indigenous populations and valuable resources to be extracted. Unlike Spain, England chose to use its military and conflict power more effectively. Instead of influencing social processes to create change in the population, they used the army and force more actively.