![]() ![]() ![]() At the time, the book would have a significant effect on the culture in the sense that it addressed an important issue of feminism after the French Revolution having triggered heated debates in Britain. ![]() She tries to transform the view towards women in the society as she states that “ These pretty nothings, these caricatures of the real beauty of sensibility, dropping glibly from the tongue, vitiate the taste, and create a kind of sickly delicacy that turns away from simple unadorned truth and a deluge of false sentiments and over-stretched feelings, stifling the natural emotions of the heart, render the domestic pleasures insipid, that ought to sweeten the exercise of those severe duties, which educate a rational and immortal being for a nobler field of action” (Wollstonecraft 15).įrom the book, it is clear that the author maintains a clear motive that women have equal rights as men in the society by being companions to men other than being viewed as ornaments, marriage property. She points out that weakness which is portrayed in being sentimental, choosy and being susceptible is not the way out for women rather, they have to acquire education and cultivate their rightful position. ![]()
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