Analysis Of John Keats A Vindication Of The Rights Of Women

This weekend’s reading was over John Keats’ La belle dame sans merci and Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Women. The first reading by John Keats was translated from French as “The beautiful lady without mercy”. The beginning of the reading foreshadows, that the poem itself would be about women and how they have to use their bodies to get favors or services but on the contrary the reading itself tended to focus on how a man is affected by this system. The man, in this case a Knight was affected negatively. Mary Wollstonecraft’s writing A Vindication of the Rights of Women is an argument for women to have better educational opportunities like that of men. The bases for her argument is that it is only rational to educate women, …show more content…
Instead this writing seems to be from a man’s point of view. The man, or Knight in this case, talks about how he finds a lady, rides off with her on his horse, and then go to her house. When they get there she cries, and I believe she cries because she thinks she will have to have sex with him now but he just kisses her and they go to sleep. When the man awakes, he finds himself alone and hurting. Looking at this from a man’s point of view is very interesting to me because while back then the mass majority of men may have used women just for sex and pleasing themselves, I'm sure that there were some men who did want something more out these relationships. I believe this viewpoint is not shared as often as it should be and I would be happy if we looked at this opinion closer in class when we discuss this topic. If John Keats’ poem La belle dame sans merci was all about the men’s perspective than Mary Wollstonecraft’s writing A Vindication of the Rights of Women is all about the women’s perspective.