Outdated Essay on Women's Rights

Well, the title just about says it all. I may have found the essay to be of some essence, like a look into the past, but the style of which she wrote it made the essay impossible to understand. The biggest problem was definitely the amount of unrecognizable words that she used on each page. Over half of my vocab list, and probable other students as well, came from this single 19 page essay, with huge excess of words that I didn't include. She also made numerous references to other women's rights writers such as Milton and Rousseau that I of course couldn't relate to.

The way she organized her essay as well was a hinder. I don't really have any grasp of what point she was trying to make in any part of her essay. It was not organized in an understandable fashion. She would be talking about women's education then jump to the pursuit of virtue then to the ignorance of men and right back to education. Her whole essay, in essence was a giant rant about how the world, in her time, was against women.

Not only was this a problem in her essay, but the content as well. Although her purpose was to fight for the rights of women, at times she would make comments that make it seem she though she was inferior to men. Such as she did on the first page when she said, "Men complain, and with reason, of the follies and caprices of our sex..." She seems to point out that men have reason to act the ways they do. On page four,she referred to women as helpmates as well. She didn't seem to do a very good job of standing up for women.

I also think this essay was very hard to relate to because all of her complaints were so out of date.She may have had some valid points in her essay, such as comparing women of her time to soldiers, much these points were all lost and inadequately supported in her con jumbled mess that she called an essay.