Wollstonecraft
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Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) was a prominent woman of the Romantic era. Wollstonecraft could not accept the then-current prejudices and stereotypes against and of women. In the Romantic era the roles of women were rigidly defined and basically a manifestation of a male dominated (patriarchal) society. In the Romantic era women were stereotyped as chaste, obedient, subservient, dependent, and fulfilled only in the marital or maternal occupation. Wollstonecraft authored many writings and works that aimed at expanding the role of women and regaining for them the identity and dignity that Wollstonecraft found such stereotypes stole from them. In works like Maria or The Wrongs of Woman and The Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Wollstonecraft expressed ideas and views about women that were not only controversial but considered downright shocking at the time. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman remains an early feminist manifesto. In Vindication, Wollstonecraft argues that society had fostered a situation in which women were condemned to ignorance and servility via male domination and definitions over and of women. This analysis will look at the rights of women during the latter half of the eighteenth century as exhibited in the works and ideas of Wollstonecraft. Women were greatly oppressed in society during the Romantic era. Refused the right to vote, viewed as fulfilled only when in the role of
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Wollstonecraft also wrote the novel Maria or The Wrongs of Woman in an effort to depict the passions of men and women that often posit women as secondary citizens in affairs of home, work, church and government. Once again Wollstonecraft’s aim is to illustrate for readers how the social environment and its institutions are responsible for shaping images and ideas of self. With respect to women, these images are often detrimental to their own sense of self-esteem and identity, and they quite often rob men of true women in their lives because of the artificial and fabricated being of most women due them. In the preface to Maria Wollstonecraft wrote, “In many instances I could have made the incidents more dramatic, would I have sacrificed my main object, the desire of exhibiting the misery and oppression, peculiar to women, that arise out of the partial laws and customs of society” (2).
Maria is the main character of the novel, a mother who is unhappy with her confinement to maternal and wifely roles. She is locked in a castle of despair and views her husband as a tyrant. The novel Maria opens with this unhappy depiction of a captive female, held captive by the tyrannies and oppression of a male and a male dominated soc
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