Abigail Adams Political Analysis

Women and Politics In the corresponding letters, it reads with such intellect and respectable language between John and Abigail Adams. Abigail and John Adams exchanges letters, and it is then that Abigail asks the famous question “remember the ladies” to her husband. John replies back, with what seems like a mocking reply as he laughs at Abigail’s “saucy” letter. However, the eloquence and honourable language between the two, there is a serious tone in John’s letters as they continue their talk about women's rights. The idea circulating between the Adams’ is the language of a revolution for independence for women. Abigail is not threatening; instead just a warning of insight to John, on what will happen when women start to grow …show more content…
But you must remember that Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken-- and notwithstanding all your wise laws and maxims we have it in our power not only to free ourselves but to subdue our Masters, and without violence throw both your natural and legal authority at our feet.” One could only imagine Abigail unhappy writing back to her husband who seems to be jokingly responding to her “remember the ladies” as her attempt in helping to craft a new nation. It is clear that Abigail sees John as her equal hence, why she replies with her last statement. Again she is trying to remind that woman are just as equal as men are. Though she wrote to her husband as his wife, she also confronted him with his own language, the language of liberty: “Tis a maxim of state that power and liberty are like heat and moisture; where they are well mixt everything prospers, where they are single, they are destructive.” It is like yin and yang, you need the other one to balance out what the other cannot obtain or see. Abigail was saying to John that you are trying to restore power to all nations but the women and their independence is still an