When an author is using an object to add deeper meaning to their writing, he or she is using symbolism. A wonderful example of this is in, "A Vindication of the Rights of Women" by Mary Wollstonecraft. This draft is about how women in her time were depressed and denied in society. Symbolism is used to enhance the meaning of poems, novels, or any kind of composition. Ivy is an emblem in this particular piece of writing. The ivy represents views that think women are like ivy, a plant that clings to other plants in order to support itself. Basically, this means that people think a woman should cling to a man the way ivy clings to another plant for support. Wollstonecraft states that, "it might be proper, in order to make a man and his wife one,
