Declaration Of Sentiments Analysis

This primary document is written by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, an early leader of woman’s rights movement and an abolitionist. The Declaration of Sentiments was written and was purposely modeled after Declaration of Independence. Since this document was written by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, it can be considered as a credible source due to the credible and influential author.
The author purposely used the Declaration of Independence as a mode to write the Declaration of Sentiments to show that the society was ridiculous. People admitted that the nation should be equal to everyone, but people did not behave equally to everyone, and the equality only appealed to men not women. In the Declaration of Independence, the author wrote, “……all men are created equal…….” Is it only for “men” or for mankind? When the United Stated won the independence from Britain, the truth was the independence only applied for men because women were not treated as equal as men. In addition, the parallelisms helped the
The majority of fighting against the document was men. They liked to be dominant and believed women played a perfect role in the society. Men felt threatened by changing their dominant role, and they did not want to admit that women were quite qualified for the work which belonged to men.
In the story of Celia, we also read a lot of gender inequalities. An obvious example will be one of the daughters of Newsom, Virginia. The book did not mention about her husband, and we only know that she stayed with her father. Since she was a woman and did not have a husband, her role no matter in society or in the family was low. She did not have right to say anything to stop her father to do anything. As we can see in the book, the author wrote, “…..for they were nearly as dependent upon their father as was Celia (Melton,