Essay On Narrative Of The Life By Frederick Douglass

Freedom is a sense or feeling when you decide or do something without restriction, it would not be being enslaved or imprisoned. We might think that freedom is innately and probably neglect the importance in our life. However, among the reading we read in this semester, they teach me that some people fight for the freedom and I should treasure the thing we have at this moment. I am most interested in “Narrative of The Life” written by Frederick Douglass and “From A Room of One’s Own” written by Virginia Woolf. Both influence me to have a deeper understanding of slaves in America and the women’s status in the past. Those two kinds of people have an important similarity which is deprived of freedom. Based on the point of freedom, I will analyze the slaves in the “Narrative of the Life” and the women in the “From A Room of One’s Own” similarity of the deprived right through four aspects. They are lacking the education freedom, the …show more content…
Woolf had the education from her family and able to attend high school and some college classes. Douglass was prohibited to have any education since the masters of slaves believe the education can lead the slaves to rebel their master or even the slavery system. Obviously, Woolf used beautiful words to depict the narrator’s thought, the movement and the things she faced detailly. Woolf used the hypothetical example and mix with some of the personal experience to talk about the women’s situation. The narrator and the Shakespeare's sister are created by Woolf’s to describe the difficulty of women. I think that she wants to increase the public awareness about the injustice existing in women. In Douglass’s Narrative, it depicts everything of his real-life experience, that is different with the Woolf’s writing. Douglass focused on influencing the audience’s pity from the cruel situation he met. He used the truest way for the environment description to create empathy for enslaved