A Vindication Of The Rights Of Women

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During the Romantic Period people’s views and ideas about women’s roles in society began to change. Altering from the traditional ideas of beautiful women who must get married and have children. Both men and women’s views on women started to evolve. People began to realize women should have more independency, not just beauty. The unwritten rule that women should get married and have kids due to traditional society. Although others still wanted women to have traditional views. Many poets and writers, wrote about women’s rights and their roles in society. Many female writers began to get recognized, which was strange for the time period because only men were recognized as writers. Writers such as Mary Wollstonecraft, Lord Byron, and Mary Shelley …show more content…

Her most famous poem is A Vindication of the Rights of Women, which she first published anonymously and everyone loved it because people though a man wrote it. The second time it was published she put her name on it and got severely criticized for her beliefs and lifestyle. The women in her poems are portrayed as powerful agents, unlike society that views them as powerless pawns that men marry and have children. Throughout her poem she states, many ideas on how women also have rights, but men and society try to keep women “ignorant” so that they stay “innocent”. Wollstonecraft writes how men hide things from women, and how society believes that men are needed to insure that women have morals. Wollstonecraft writes that women must either be sneaky, kind, proper and obedient or only beautiful that way men can protect them. Her beliefs are that women should have equal rights, but men, society, and even women allow themselves be viewed as powerless so that they would not be looked at differently by society and can have an easier life. She states in order for women to gain the respect they deserve one must give up their beauty, get an education, make their own money, have an organized society and be set free by …show more content…

When one first reads the story they may think that a man wrote it and would surprise they to discover that a woman was the one who created this story. Frankenstein was written by Shelley while she was pregnant, which one may connect Dr. Frankenstein giving life to the creature to Shelley getting ready to give life to her child. She wrote many fears that women may have whiled pregnant such as not loving their own child, or have expectations that may not come true. Her work is thought of as one of the greatest supernatural monster story and it proved that women can become writers and not need a man’s help to do

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