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Elizabeth Barret Browning and Mary Wollstonecraft: Challenging Women's Traditional Roles Throughout
Summary: An analysis and comparison between the works of Elizabeth Barret Browning and Mary Wollstonecraft.
Women throughout history have had one underlying characteristic in common: a feeling of inferiority. Since the beginning of time, women have surpassed many challenges rooted from sex discrimination. They were considered the "angel of the house", where their only responsibility was raising their children and taking care of some domestic tasks (ie: cooking, cleaning). Women were impeded from voting, owning property, wondering the streets alone, and even exposing their ankles. Furthermore, they were considered weak, and expected to deem every man superior to themselves. Mary Wollstonecraft and Elizabeth Barrett Browning were merely two of the many women seeking equal rights. Although liberal women were considered an outrage and a disgrace to all social norms, Wollstonecraft and Browning did not fail to make their "radical" input on women's issues public. As a result, their writings greatly contributed to a major turning point in women's history.
Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication...
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