Summary Of Women Fire And Dangerous Things By Montagu

MARRIAGE IS SLAVERY
Defrauded Servants are from Service free,
A wounded Slave regains his Liberty.
For Wives ill us'd no remedy remains, To daily Racks condemn'd, and to eternal Chains
Personifying women as slaves in linguistic expression is a type of ontological metaphor, where the representation of women is based on the speaker´s experience. The basis of this metonymy consists of structuring an image schema by structurally personifying women as commodities that satisfy the want and needs of the market. Lady Montagu illustrated in these lines her perceptions of the treatment of women by comparing women´s status to those of slaves through figurative speech. To be exact, how slaves receive freedom from their contractor if the latter either
Similarly, Lady Montagu establishes the natural hierarchy of her time in the Epistle of Mrs. Yonge to Her Husband when she describes men as having higher status than women. She conceptualizes that only HEAVEN, the highest level, will show justice, by mapping the concretes world´s cultural and societal aspects with the abstract domain of heaven to mentally produce a configuration of a surreal domain of social equality. The examples below show how Lady Montagu describes men taking for granted society´s perception of women being the weaker sex and men presuming to possess a more "grandeur" or sublime virtue than even the philosopher Cato recognized. In doing so, the domain of weakness correlates to the domain of HUMAN CHARACTER and HUMAN BEHAVIOR while the domain of MORALITY is compared to the origin and status of
She goes on, reprimanding men´s treatment of women by reminding them that the highest-ranking level, the divinity, would have given women different temperaments to endure men´s orientation of women if succumbing to the stronger was to be their role in life. Blending together MORALITY, MOVEMENT and HIERARCHY with the concept of the divine kingdom or heaven, generates a new societal domain where justice prevails. For wives ill-used no remedy remains
For sure in heaven does justice reign, though tricks below that sacred name profane
Had heaven designed us trials so severe,
It would have formed our tempers then to bear.
Beneath the shelter of the law you