Analysis Of Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication Of The Rights Of Women

Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Women, was one of the first feminist philosophical works. The theme of this passage, excerpted from the reading, is she wants men and women to have equal rights and opportunities, especially when it comes to education. She argues the entire time in her writing that men and women are equal human beings and women need to be treated in the same way as men with respect to many domains in life. One of Wollstonecraft’s arguments was aimed at convincing women to acquire strength in their minds and bodies. Second, she advocated education as the key for women to accomplish a sense of self-respect and a new self-image and that it can enable women to live their lives to their fullest potential. Lastly, …show more content…
Women were usually raised to find a man to marry and start a family; also, for women with education it showed weakness; Wollstonecraft hated this. She believed that women just relied on their beauty and power of seduction to find a man, but she wanted women to get education to become virtuous and beneficial. Virtuous is when one shows virtues, meaning what one believes as someone good, their moral standards or their goodness, showing or having high moral standards. Wollstonecraft wanted women to be more educated so they could comprehend more and not have to depend everything from a man. She compare’s women’s education and men in the military the same, both thrown into the world without full knowledge. So if soldiers and women were both getting the same education why were they still not being treated as equals? She stated that men wanted women to be so weak minded that women must be inferior to men. The only time Wollstonecraft thinks men are superior to women is when it comes to their bodily strength but other than that she wishes virtue and knowledge of men and women be the same in nature. Our sex shouldn’t define our