The French Revolution was a revolution that swept through the lands of France, bringing forth ideas that soon question the old ideals of the citizens of France. Though many seem to generalize the French Revolution as the revolution that wanted to bring change to the old monarchy system, however there were also other ideas and perspectives that were created from the French Revolution. We can see these perspectives and ideas through the writings of contemporary observers such as Olympe de Gouges, Edmund Burke, and Thomas Paine. Respectively they wrote, “Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citzien, “Reflections on the Revolution in France,” and “The Rights of Men” and through these writing they managed to bring back different perspectives
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Gouges’ created her pamphlet and wrote it parallel to Paine’s writing, basically stating the rights of women ought to have, though its entirety focuses on the rights of women, however, its main goal was to criticize Paine for the lack of representation of women during the French Revolution. Gouges’ pamphlet basically takes a similar format as Paine’s pamphlet, where Gouges presents a list of rights that women should have. After her lists of the rights of women, Gouges writes in her postscript, how woman are treated unequal and are forgotten even though women at the time fought hard as men in the French Revolution. Readers see that when Gouges writes, “Enslaved man has multiplied his strength and needs recourse to yours to break his chains. Having become free, he has become unjust to his companion.” (Gouges). Gouges basically states that women are the forgotten gender in this French Revolution and how men gained their “natural” rights, women are still being put onto the backburner and are not treated as equal to their gender counterpart. Though Gouges’ main point in her writings were to criticize Paine and other leaders for not including women during the French Revolution, however she does not …show more content…
Readers can see that it was a response to Burke’s writing when Paine writes, “The government of England is no friend of the revolution of France… to Mr. Burke for the insults heaped on it in his book.” (Paine). Paine basically states that England is not on the side of the revolution and is out to get France due to writers like Edmund Burke and false printing in England newspaper that show the French Revolution in a bad light. Paine also wrote this because he felt that it was necessary for people to overthrow a government if the government is not giving the natural born rights to its people. Throughout his pamphlet, he constantly criticizes the French government for its monarchal system and how it failed to provide the basic necessities that people should have. This can be seen when Paine writes, “Louis XVI. contributed nothing to alter the hereditary despotism of the monarchy. All the tyrannies of former reigns, acted under that hereditary despotism,” (Paine) Paine writes the grievance of how the king failed to get rid of despotism and how despotism led to corrupt government. Readers can see how Thomas Paine embodies the perspectives of the French Revolution as a whole and truly represent what the French Revolution stands for in his writings and why out of the
Gouges’ created her pamphlet and wrote it parallel to Paine’s writing, basically stating the rights of women ought to have, though its entirety focuses on the rights of women, however, its main goal was to criticize Paine for the lack of representation of women during the French Revolution. Gouges’ pamphlet basically takes a similar format as Paine’s pamphlet, where Gouges presents a list of rights that women should have. After her lists of the rights of women, Gouges writes in her postscript, how woman are treated unequal and are forgotten even though women at the time fought hard as men in the French Revolution. Readers see that when Gouges writes, “Enslaved man has multiplied his strength and needs recourse to yours to break his chains. Having become free, he has become unjust to his companion.” (Gouges). Gouges basically states that women are the forgotten gender in this French Revolution and how men gained their “natural” rights, women are still being put onto the backburner and are not treated as equal to their gender counterpart. Though Gouges’ main point in her writings were to criticize Paine and other leaders for not including women during the French Revolution, however she does not …show more content…
Readers can see that it was a response to Burke’s writing when Paine writes, “The government of England is no friend of the revolution of France… to Mr. Burke for the insults heaped on it in his book.” (Paine). Paine basically states that England is not on the side of the revolution and is out to get France due to writers like Edmund Burke and false printing in England newspaper that show the French Revolution in a bad light. Paine also wrote this because he felt that it was necessary for people to overthrow a government if the government is not giving the natural born rights to its people. Throughout his pamphlet, he constantly criticizes the French government for its monarchal system and how it failed to provide the basic necessities that people should have. This can be seen when Paine writes, “Louis XVI. contributed nothing to alter the hereditary despotism of the monarchy. All the tyrannies of former reigns, acted under that hereditary despotism,” (Paine) Paine writes the grievance of how the king failed to get rid of despotism and how despotism led to corrupt government. Readers can see how Thomas Paine embodies the perspectives of the French Revolution as a whole and truly represent what the French Revolution stands for in his writings and why out of the