Comparing The Poor Singing Dame And A Vindication Of The Rights Of Women

Throughout time women, were considered much less when compared to men. While reading “The Poor Singing Dame” by Mary Darby Robinson and “A Vindication of the Rights of Women” by Mary Wollstonecraft, the reader can get a glimpse of the mistreatment that women constantly faced for several centuries. From these passages, one can assume that women were considered more like objects and were not able to voice their opinions towards any matter. Women, in these stories, dealt with inequality and had to bear with the fact that all men were granted constitutional advantages above all women. Women, in general, came across and suffered from multiple obstacles to be where they are today. It is astonishing to see how their disadvantages in education, expectations,

While reading this story it became clear that women faced a major disadvantage when it came to gaining an education. Rather than attending school to obtain the general education, women at such a young age we're taught to become typical housewives. Without any sense of knowledge and education all women will eventually become incompatible with men and won’t be able to serve as companions, “..if she be not prepared by education to become the companion of man, she will stop the progress of knowledge and virtue; for truth must be common to all, or it will inefficacious with respect to its influence on general practice.” (Wollstonecraft 211). They will not only lose their sense of virtue but will also lose their

Men, being the puppeteers, manipulated women exactly like one would with a puppet. Much like old times, the Lord from “The Poor Singing Dame” envied the joy and happiness that the dame expressed every day without any regards to her social status. In this story, it appeared that women had to obey a male figure no matter who it was. Not only did they had to obey a man’s orders, but had to respect them and their authority. Out of spite and jealousy, the Lord made it his mission to make the dame suffer from sadness just like people in her social status should constantly feel. He tried to control the dame by sending threats to her in order to silence her. The Lord insisted that his rules had to be followed as he was the law, but the singing dame continued her ways. Seeking for revenge the Lord sent her to rot in prison for disobeying his authority, “A father at last, an old steward relentless he send her. Who bore her, all trembling, to prison away!” (Robinson 82). Just like men with power during that era, the Lord assumed he could easily manipulate the dame because she was a woman, and women had to