It’s shocking to me that I haven’t heard about the Lieutenant Nun before. I feel that this would have been a concept more spoken about considering her actions and what she did was completely against the values specifically towards religion people had during her time. Overall I think what she had done was very brave, from leaving the Church to sailing the seas. In a way she didn’t let herself become the person society expected her to be at the time. Thus, part of her reason to change her appearance and identity to Francisco Loyola. Part of what I am wondering is how difficult at times it must’ve been for her to experience leaving and with that changing in ways where her mother wouldn’t identify who she is or her father’s conversation with the Captain.
She managed to sail through the seas, and fight alongside men something that at the time it wouldn’t be “right” for a woman to do, as well as her actions going against what women should do or not do. She was faced with several moments where she had to defend herself, like with her brother. She wanted to be treated the same like everyone else, in this case in her experience and environment, she wanted people to treat her like men are treated However, though some of her actions do seem to be brave, there is also her actions that diminish the view of her being “heroic” from taking advantage of people to stealing… so overall who is the Lieutenant Nun?
Do you think she ever had a moment of regret in leaving the Church in the first place?
What would have happened if she hadn’t changed her identity?
Ultimately is she the villain or the hero?