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Benjamin Franklin's The Speech Of Miss Polly Baker

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Out of the two satires by Benjamin Franklin, my favorite one was "The Speech of Miss Polly Baker". While reading I found the story very interesting. Franklin wrote "The speech of Miss Polly Baker" as a fiction to present his idea of feminism and gender inequality. With the help of the main character Polly Baker, Franklin found a genuine way to demonstrate his frustrations towards society. At the beginning, Miss Baker pleas to Judge in response to being accused of giving birth to a child. She argues that law sometimes is very unreasonable as she was forced to pay a lot of fines. Polly validates herself with strong arguments, that she had never committed a crime. She believes that God is happy with her because she is helping a natural phenomenon
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