Analysis Of Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication Of The Rights Of Women

The following essay’s purpose is to show the reader the struggle women had to go through in the eighteenth century in order to receive their so deserved equality. This work contrasts two documents that were written in the 18th century by two very predominant ladies that had the courage to stand up and fight for what they believed in. On that note I argue that men and women both deserve the same rights and privileges as both are courageous and essential to the nation and world. In Mary Wollstonecraft’s, “Vindication of the Rights of Women,” the author argues that an educated woman needs rights of freedom; otherwise this woman will find no reason of why she should be virtuous. Mary, explains and develops this point through the story in many ways. throughout this work one can read where the author says, “my main argument is built on this principle, that if she be not prepared by education to become the companion of man, she will stop the progress of knowledge and …show more content…
Some of these are freedom of speech, right to have property, resistance of oppression and even freedom and liberty. The two documents differ because for the “Declaration of the Rights of Man and Of the Citizen” in 1791 the rights only applied to men; whereas in 1793 in Olympe de Gouges’ revolutionary script, “The Declaration of the Rights of Woman,” it was made very clear that these rights could not only be for men but for everyone else. De Gouges specifically said men and women are all the same when she declared the Rights of Woman by saying, “the sex that is as superior in beauty as it is in courage during the sufferings of maternity…” (de Gouges, 357). The speaker, by quoting this, meant to take a stance for all women in the nation and finally start a long walk to