There are very few moments in peoples’ lives where they have the opportunity to do something that may actually affect change. While learning about the Romantic Era, I was introduced to a woman, by the name of Mary Wollstonecraft, who harnessed that rare moment when she wrote her manifesto: A Vindication of the Rights of Women; kick-starting the revolution of women’s rights. Her advocation for women’s rights to education equality lead to what we now know and are capable of today. This Humanities class has reinforced my beliefs that the social, political, legal, and economic rights of women equal to that of men is integral to the growth of our society. I will prove this using examples from Mary Wollstonecraft’s manifesto, quotations taken from Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, and my own experiences in life. …show more content…
Many people believe that after winning the battle for woman suffrage, that equality for woman was won and there is no longer a need to worry. As amazing as that victory was for woman in America, there still remains a multitude of areas woman are still regarded inferior. As a society, we have come a long way since the days that Wollstonecraft was alive but as a whole, we are only as strong as our weakest length. Wollstonecraft argued:
There must be more equality established in society, or morality will never gain ground, and the virtuous equality will not rest firmly even when founded on a rock, if one half of mankind are chained to its bottom by fate, for they will be continually undermining it through ignorance or