Mary Wollstonecraft is a middle age advocate for women’s equality. She is a white feminist writer and intellectual who brings across her strong opinion about the rights of woman and the gender issues that arrive in the eighteenth century. Mary Wollstonecraft expresses her feelings and emotions towards gender inequality, connections and relationships between men and women, versus ruler and ruled and the rights woman should obtain as an individual. Men are considered to be superior to women because there is a lack of education and minimal knowledge comparing men and women.
The education in the eighteenth century was focused on the importance of men and their role and position in society. Women had no influential part on the nation and are purely used to obtain the men’s needs. “But should it be proved that woman is naturally weaker than man, whence does it follow that it is natural for her to labor to become still weaker than nature intended her to be?” [Sources of World Societies page 153].Women are implied to be weaker than men and are therefore given the duties which are needed in order to allow the men to perform and work to the best of their ability. Women are there to satisfy men. Mary Wollstonecraft feels that the education needs to be more rational as women can also be influential towards the nation in …show more content…
Wollstonecraft is trying to get the message across that the reason women are classed as dependent of men and that it is the natural form for women, is because no woman has been given the chance to adventure in her own direction and create and obtain that independence. The only proof that one has, is men have learnt to become independent through education and women aren’t educated and therefore need to be dependent on
The education in the eighteenth century was focused on the importance of men and their role and position in society. Women had no influential part on the nation and are purely used to obtain the men’s needs. “But should it be proved that woman is naturally weaker than man, whence does it follow that it is natural for her to labor to become still weaker than nature intended her to be?” [Sources of World Societies page 153].Women are implied to be weaker than men and are therefore given the duties which are needed in order to allow the men to perform and work to the best of their ability. Women are there to satisfy men. Mary Wollstonecraft feels that the education needs to be more rational as women can also be influential towards the nation in …show more content…
Wollstonecraft is trying to get the message across that the reason women are classed as dependent of men and that it is the natural form for women, is because no woman has been given the chance to adventure in her own direction and create and obtain that independence. The only proof that one has, is men have learnt to become independent through education and women aren’t educated and therefore need to be dependent on