Wollstonecraft’s on the other hand centers around how personal happiness is better over social obligation because the social obligation of woman is what will cause their downfall into being nothing more than lessee beings than their male counterparts. These opposing forces leave major conflicts, conundrums and despair in their place when left with a choice between the two. What is personal happiness? Personal happiness is when you can lay down on the grass in white jeans, feeling the sun while not worrying about stains. Personal happiness is when you find the most alluring and profound beauty in all the negative spaces of your life and mentality; it’s beating your own record in a game, getting the person of your dreams, the bonus and promotion from your job.
Although both lived in two different time periods, both understood the power that having an education bestowed. Due to both women being from different time periods, their views of equality and the role women play vary. In Mary Wollstonecraft’s short story, she makes the argument that marriage
As a woman striving for intellectual and philosophical pursuits, she challenges the stereotype of women as intellectually “inferior” to men. Moreover, Wollstonecraft strategically employs references to other influential thinkers and philosophers of her time, such as John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. By aligning herself with prominent intellectuals, she positions her ideas within a broader philosophical context, making her arguments appear well-grounded and respected by her peers. This tactic further enhances her ethos and enhances the credibility of her
In 1795, Mary Wollstonecraft wrote a letter addressing an acquaintance, who has stated and acted upon an offensive write off or common misconception. The letter consist of high diction, syntax, and sympathy to ensure Marys' situation is well presented, and the acquaintance is aware of the infuriated it arose. Diction is the first rhetorical device to arise in the letter to the acquaintance. “indignant...condescend...epistle”. The high diction is used to indicate to the reader that Mary is outraged and resentful about the offer presented without her consent, as if she had no say in the final decision.
Philosophers believed that men act like tyrants and act immature so they need to change their ways. In Document F-1 Mary Wollstonecraft says “But if women are to be excluded, without having a voice, from participation of the natural rights of mankind, prove first, to ward of the charge… there is not a shadow of justification for not admitting women under the same.” Wollstonecraft is fighting for equality, believes the only reason women are not equal is based off of old tradition, and it is time for change.
Mary Wollstonecraft was an English writer, philosopher, women’s rights activist, educator, and journalist. She was born in London, United Kingdom on April 27, 1759. She later died in London, United Kingdom on September 10, 1797. She was born to a very abusive family and had left home at 17 in 1778, dedicating her life to writing.
Wollstonecraft’s view of gender has been extrapolated upon by other authors; such as John Stuart Mill and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Both Mill and Stanton extrapolate upon the idea that society is to blame for the inequality between men and women. In Mill’s “Subjection of Women” he talks about how society gives all men power; power, which men uses to tyrannize women. Men are given superiority over women and men uses this superiority to further subjugate women. Mill affirms that men “are entitled to command” (674) and women “are bound to obey” (674).
Mary Wollstonecraft was an enthusiastic individual that boldly attacked the dominant male and laid down the foundation of feminism. She caused quite a sensation by writing A Vindication of the Rights of Woman that argued for universal rights between men and women, social equality, and economic independence. She had declared that both men and women were awarded indisputable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. She fiercely pursued a career in literature during the Romantic period when professional females were seldom. In the passage given, Mary Wollstonecraft discusses the enslavement of women due to their unfair educational prospects.
The ordinary course of this newspaper hath veered off course I’m afraid, in response to the libel and slander many a people hath spread about me I am here to defend my good name! I am Mary Wollstonecraft and I shan’t sit here idle while those who would love to tarnish my good name get away! But what you have gotten right with your shameful sewing circle gossip-talks is that I did write a piece about the president that did have words that would be considered sedition. But what you misconstrued was your contention that I was trying to incite rebellious nature or spread vicious hate against our commander in chief in part as well the government, when in reality that’s furthest from the truth.
In the book, A Vindication to the Rights of Women, Wollstonecraft is able to express the beauty of a women, and express the humanly rights that we should preserve in order to keep an image of beauty. She expresses how women have the right to be praised for what she can do instead of what she looks like. She does not express rights in a political way, to bring to light how women are viewed as a weakness because women do not have the same strength that men have. Without diminishing a woman's beauty, she also demonstrates that women are naturally weaker, because that is how the woman was designed. A woman may be weaker in physical strength than a man, but through the intelligence and character each woman possesses, she be just as strong
Wollstonecraft in her book titled “A Vindication of the Rights of Women” was acting as an advocate for women trying to establish equality between men and women especially in the area of education. She maintained that men and women were born with equal reasoning ability and as a result of this women have the right to enjoy equal education and influence in the society as men. One thing I noticed from her work is that she tends to focus on women in the middle class of the economy. I believe she wrote the work to oppose those writers who claimed that education for women is meant to make them more pleasing to the men, those who have declared that women have no soul and also make them to be artificial weak character.
In the book of vindication of the right of a woman, Wollstonecraft brings out clearly the roles of a woman in her society and how it has led to oppression of women (Wollstonecraft 22). Wollstonecraft believes that men and women are equal given the same environment and empowerment, women can do anything a man can do. In her society, education for women is only aimed at making her look pleasing to men. Women are treated as inferior being and used by men as sex objects. Wollstonecraft believed that the quality of mind of women is the same with that of men, and therefore women should not be denied a chance for formal education that will empower them to be equal with men.
Throughout this text, Wollstonecraft discusses how close-minded society was about women and equality. She describes society as being under the impression that women and men were two different animals. Society also believed that men were free and logical thinkers that could rule and change society while women were seen as pretty objects that could bear children. Wollstonecraft’s feminist view discusses that the problem was not only men inhibiting women, but women themselves were also not pushing against the ideology that men were superior. She continues to explain her new feminist ideology that discusses changes in society that would create equality.
Wollstonecraft argues for the rights of women in her A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects. She opposes that only men can receive education. Women are taught by their mother the knowledge of human weakness, “cunning, softness of temper, outward obedience, and a scrupulous attention to a puerile kind of propriety” (2.2). They should be beautiful, then men will protect them. Wollstonecraft argues that women focus on being beautiful and stay indoors, they can’t really run reason because they depend on men.
CHAPTER I Mary Wollstonecraft criticism on traditional philosophy on concept of women Introduction: In this chapter I would like to discuss and present Mary Wollstonecraft`s criticism on traditional philosophy on concept of women. Feminist critique: Feminist criticism is concerned with "...the ways in which literature and other cultural productions reinforce or undermine the economic, political, social, and psychological oppression of women". Feminist criticism is also concerned with less obvious forms of marginalization such as the exclusion of women writers from the traditional literary canon: "...unless the critical or historical point of view is feminist, there is a tendency to under-represent the contribution of women writers" (Tyson
