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3 pages in length. While Catalina de Erauso's raucous autobiography entitled Lieutenant Nun: Memoir of a Basque Transvestite in the New World does incorporate the undercurrent of cross dressing and alternative lifestyles, an even greater subtext is the gratuitous and very common reality of human conflict. From the moment she enters the nunnery until she exposes her real self to the King some decades later, de Erauso's life is fraught with conflict between and against her fellow man, a truth so striking that it comes through in the author's staid, emotionless depiction that is wholly lacking of any personal introspection that would afford some understanding of her deeper emotions. No additional sources cited.
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of cross dressing and alternative lifestyles, an even greater subtext is the gratuitous and very common reality of human conflict. From the moment she enters the nunnery until she
exposes her real self to the King some decades later, de Erausos life is fraught with conflict between and against her fellow man, a truth so striking that it comes
through in the authors staid, emotionless depiction that is wholly lacking of any personal introspection that would afford some understanding of her deeper emotions. "I found work there as
page to don Carlos de Arellano, a native of Santiago, and remained in his house and employment for two years, well-fed and well-clothed. But at the end of that
time, with no more reason than that it suited me, I quit the comfort of this situation and returned to my home-town..." (de Erauso, 1996, p. 7). de Erauso
appropriated so much of her male alter ego that she actually began to think like a man, a mental recalculation that ultimately had her behaving like one, too. She
very easily slid into the mentality of soldiering, dueling and having a generally raucous attitude toward life and people that guided her with a will toward vengeance and little desire
for stability. Her personal account illustrates how she wholly embraced the life she forged as a man without any room for apology; rather, she embarked upon the adventure, scuffles
and downright violence with such a dispassionate attitude that readers are hard pressed to connect with the outrageous and deadly escapades she encounters, many of which appear to be simply
gratuitous in nature. A relevant phrase in literary circles that relates to the overall concept of characteristic theme is that of the human
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