Elise Hurry
Daywalt P. 7
World History H
9 February 2018
Feminist Mary Wollstonecraft
From the beginning of time men have been ruling this world and Mary Wollstonecraft thought it was finally time for a change. In the 18th century there was not many advocates for women's right that stood out and tried to make a difference to gain equality. Wollstonecraft was one of few who decided it was a matter of time to make a change and took to writing to express her new and almost unheard of ideas of philosophes. The main focus of her writings are how the educational system teaches women to be slaves and not be their own person. As well as focusing on how to make a real change though the government and the laws it supported. Mary Wollstonecraft was …show more content…
With women not having the education they deserve, Wollstonecraft questioned why "many women thus waste life away the prey of discontent, who might have practiced as physicians, regulated a farm, managed a shop, and stood erect, supported by their own industry, instead of hanging their heads surcharged with the dew of sensibility, that consumes the beauty to which it at first gave luster" (Mary Wollstonecraft). She questions why women are not given an even chance to change the world opposed to men who are granted elevated social rights and education and can do anything they want to do in the world without an objection. Women were born equal to men and should be able to freely exercise their economic and political rights. Wollstonecraft then decides to write another book ,A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, to express the economic realities in England of the …show more content…
This book marks the beginning of Wollstonecraft's critique of the government and society and why they have let men hold all the power and limit womens opportunities they have the rights to. Wollstonecraft writes about her own beliefs that women were deprived of their economic freedom and are at the mercy of their husband doing everything they say and everything they desire. Wollstonecraft is able to use her experience to write about the contempt and rejection women will feel when having to work as a woman's companion, the rigid restrictions put upon socially acceptable work for women of all classes, and the difficulties of being a teacher or a governess. Wollstonecraft turns such situations into a trope for a woman's "struggle with the world," a pattern that continues in all her work. Like most radical thinkers in the enlightenment period, Wollstonecraft is demanding a change in society to better improve women’s rights and make the world a better place to live. Wollstonecraft writes simply about a need for high quality and equally accessible education for everyone and it will open up economical freedoms giving each person equal opportunity for success
Daywalt P. 7
World History H
9 February 2018
Feminist Mary Wollstonecraft
From the beginning of time men have been ruling this world and Mary Wollstonecraft thought it was finally time for a change. In the 18th century there was not many advocates for women's right that stood out and tried to make a difference to gain equality. Wollstonecraft was one of few who decided it was a matter of time to make a change and took to writing to express her new and almost unheard of ideas of philosophes. The main focus of her writings are how the educational system teaches women to be slaves and not be their own person. As well as focusing on how to make a real change though the government and the laws it supported. Mary Wollstonecraft was …show more content…
With women not having the education they deserve, Wollstonecraft questioned why "many women thus waste life away the prey of discontent, who might have practiced as physicians, regulated a farm, managed a shop, and stood erect, supported by their own industry, instead of hanging their heads surcharged with the dew of sensibility, that consumes the beauty to which it at first gave luster" (Mary Wollstonecraft). She questions why women are not given an even chance to change the world opposed to men who are granted elevated social rights and education and can do anything they want to do in the world without an objection. Women were born equal to men and should be able to freely exercise their economic and political rights. Wollstonecraft then decides to write another book ,A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, to express the economic realities in England of the …show more content…
This book marks the beginning of Wollstonecraft's critique of the government and society and why they have let men hold all the power and limit womens opportunities they have the rights to. Wollstonecraft writes about her own beliefs that women were deprived of their economic freedom and are at the mercy of their husband doing everything they say and everything they desire. Wollstonecraft is able to use her experience to write about the contempt and rejection women will feel when having to work as a woman's companion, the rigid restrictions put upon socially acceptable work for women of all classes, and the difficulties of being a teacher or a governess. Wollstonecraft turns such situations into a trope for a woman's "struggle with the world," a pattern that continues in all her work. Like most radical thinkers in the enlightenment period, Wollstonecraft is demanding a change in society to better improve women’s rights and make the world a better place to live. Wollstonecraft writes simply about a need for high quality and equally accessible education for everyone and it will open up economical freedoms giving each person equal opportunity for success