Declaration Of Independence And Women's Rights

Pearl S. Buck once wrote, “Men and women should own the world as a mutual possession.” For a long time this was not thought did not cross a person's mind. Women were not allowed to own anything, had no opinion, and did not have many rights, such as being not able to vote. When women started publishing their writing and meeting up to discuss their unfair treatment, the prejudice thinking against women started to go way, and women started to get much more freedom. Women started publishing stories and books that expressed how they really felt in society and also how they wanted to be treated. The writing of the women varied greatly from what men has always wrote about them. The literature compared but also contrasted greatly. Women’s literature …show more content…
These famous works are the same because they both themes state how people should be given certain rights. They are much different in the sense that in the Declaration of Independence the writers things that the rights should only be given to men, while in the Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions, the writers insist that rights should need to be given to all people. The Declaration of Independence states, “That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.” The Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions argues, “We insist that they have immediate admission to all the rights and privileges which belong to them as citizens of the United States.” The Declaration of Independence and the Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions have similar but contrasting …show more content…
In both stories, there is one person who is making the marriage awful. The Devil in Tom Walker states, “Her voice was often heard in wordy warfare with her husband; and his face sometimes showed signs that their conflicts were not confined to words.” The two stories are different because Irving wrote about how the woman was the strict one, but in Chopin’s the husband is the restricting one. The Story of an Hour states, “And yet she had loved him-sometimes. Often she had not…. Free! Body and soul free” When this is stated in the book, the narrator heard her husband had just died, and she was rejoicing because she was finally free from his