Virginia Woolf And Jean-Jacques Rousseau Analysis

Inequality is defined as,” an unfair situation in which some people have more rights or better opportunities than other people.” Inequality comes in many forms, of which include gender, race, status, religion, wealth and etc. This paper aims to analyze both the ideas of Virginia Woolf and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and utilizing them to understand the origins of inequality and how it grew into dependency. First, a brief summary of the writer’s ideas will be given. Simultaneously, the paper will assess the strengths and weaknesses of each in terms of how they can help us understand inequality in contemporary Egypt and how to combat it. The paper will conclude with a comparison of which writer and how their ideas contribute to the understanding of inequality in the 21st centaury. Throughout A Room of One’s Own, the writer, Virginia Woolf, emphasizes the fact that women are treated unequally in her society which has led to the production, by women, of less prominent works in comparison to men. Woolf explains the difference in success between man and woman in two parts. She first explains that the values of women differ very often from the values of men, and goes on to say that in any case it is

One can take a different approach to the matter of dependence. The idea of dependence should lead to the equality of man. When jobs become more specialized man feels the need to depend on another to achieve a common goal. The doctor in society depends on the plumber and teacher to raise the welfare of all. The student depends on the professor as well as the bus driver. Instead of assuming dependence promotes inequality, one should assume that dependence makes everyone in society better off. This idea is more theoretical than it is realistic, as man has learned to judge the other based on the type of work, the knowledge he has, the salary he gets and etc. Man has been able to internally judge society as a whole- putting it in a hierarchy of the better and the worse