Mary Wolstonecraft Analysis

Mary Wollstonecraft’s central idea, is the “Revolution in female manners” and how women should have not been “limited to menial labor and not the relegated roles of a wife, companion and governess.” The objective of the Wollstonecraft’s revolution was to open an opportunity for women to become properly educated so that they would not have to depend on a man for the rest of their lives as a wife and baby maker. Her main focus is to not only educate the audience on the old fashioned ideals of society and how it still affects women today, but she also goes on and gives her interpretation on how to lessen the “weak nature” of women by identifying where the problems lie in women’s actions.
By the end of paragraph I, Wollstonecraft states that women
She does not encourage the reader to act out in anger upon from not knowing that men have always tried to embed the idea of an ideal way women were supposed to be. Starting in grade school, the books teaching about the characteristics of being a girl, placed them as the weaker and obedient sex. When she begins to go deeper into detail in paragraph 2, she says “the male pursues, the female yields (and) this is the law of nature.” Mary is not in favor of how this cycle is constantly being played out. Men had known that women were taught to be pursued and that they were seen as “alluring objects” being flooded by the adoration of
If the marriage were to end , would the woman be able to support herself and her family? The answer is no. Women were seen as incapable of governing their own families, “the instruction which women have received has only tended...to render them insignificant objects of desire.” Wollstonecraft continues to address the idea that women are “taken out of their sphere of duties” and are made to live “the short lived bloom of beauty” which cements the “way women can rise in the