Compare Mary Wollstonecraft's 'A Vindication To The Rights Of Woman'

Chloe Kaplan Mrs. Loose Frankenstein Research Paper 17 March 2017 Frankenstein Mary Wollstonecraft, the aesthetic foremother of feminist expository prose, was a pioneer whose feminist efforts were tragically misunderstood by the misogynist society in which she lived. Wollstonecraft was in fact, an effective advocate for women. There was a pervasive contradiction between her life and her work and she used the adversity she faced as well as the achievements she accomplished, and her mother’s knowledge to cultivate her text, A Vindication to the Rights of Women. As stated in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein this work illustrates the societal elements of a false system of education, acute anxieties about maternity, and the ideology of a world without women as defined in Mary Wollstonecraft’s work. Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, links the radical insurrection during the French Revolution to the equally radical insubordination of
Civilized women are, therefore, ... weakened by false refinement .... Ever restless and anxious, their over exercised sensibility not only renders them uncomfortable themselves but troublesome ... to others.... Their conduct is un- stable, and their opinions are wavering .... Byfits and starts they are warm in many pur- suits yet this warmth, never concentrated into perseverance, soon exhausts itself... Miserable, indeed, must be that being whose cultivation of mind has only tended to in- flame its passions!” (A Vindication to the Rights of Women) According to this passage, “civilized women”, the women who keep their mouth shut and do as their told, suffer from an illness: A veritable fever of femininity, that reduces them to "unstable" and "uncomfortable," "miserable," exhausted