Rights and Wrongs of Women according to Mary Wollstonecraft

Women are raised to opine that their happiness, their very existence, are dependent on pleasing men, on being loved by men, on being beguiling to men. This is the state into which women are educated by society, which is a remodel of men. Women, in effect, are created by men to be simultaneously innocent and seductive:

Women are every where in this misfortunate state; for, in order to preserve their innocence, as ignorance is politely termed, truth is hidden from them, and they are made to assume an stylised character before their faculties consume acquired any strength. Taught from their fancy that sweetheart is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and, roaming around its gilt cage, merely experienceks to adorn its prison. . . . Women . . . [have] their thoughts constantly directed to the roughly insignificant part of themselves (Wollstonecraft Vindication 43).

A woman in such a society does have power, which Wollstonecraft acknowledges. However, that power--to seduce, to transport a man physically--exists only at the impetus of the man, or, more specifically, as Maria depicts, at the whim of the woman's conserve. If the husband decides to ignore or override that power, through various shout outs, including institutionalizat

Vindication certainly broodes the institution of wedding in the most critical term. Women, she argues, are raised to see marriage as their primary goal and purpose in life, the only means to happiness. Whereas men are raised to delve which of many professions they readiness seek to pursue, women are taught to think only of marriage, which means thinking only of what they can do to please and snare a man so that he might care for them and provide them with the pleasures of life:

Whereas Vindication speaks in across-the-board and general ideological terms, Maria brings the business down to its most basic unit--the family. In this unit, society finds microcosmic expression. All that Wollstonecraft shows to be wrong with society in the ideas of Vindication, in terms of the abuse of women, is shown in dramatic form in Maria.

If the ideas of Vindication do not reach the reader and cause him or her to drive out to the wrongs perpetrated against God and humanity (both male and female) by the repressive, patriarchal society, thence perhaps that reader might be driven to hysteria at George's arrogant abusiveness or to compassion for the abused Maria.

The divisor upon which Maria's story stands is her relationship with Jemima. Vindication does not adequately address this need for female solidarity in the fight for freedom from men, tho Maria certainly makes up for that deficiency in Wollstonecraft's argument in the earlier work. Jemima and Maria are of entirely unlike backgrounds, different socioeconomic classes, but they are sisters in terms of their imprisonment in a world run by men for the benefit of men. They are both, essentially, the property of men. Together, they form a feminist bond which endures and grows in strength through endurance. Their dual-lane power stands in stark contrast to the passivity of the another(prenominal) women in the book, who obediently follow the dictates of the men in their lives.

In Maria, however, written after Vindication, Wollstonecraft seems to suggest t
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