MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT: "Of the Pernicious Effects Which Arise from...

MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT: "Of the Pernicious Effects Which Arise from the Unnatural Distinctions Established in Society."

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H QUESTIONS FOR CRITICAL READING 1. Who is the audience for Wollstonecraft's writing? Is she writing more for men than for women? Is it clear from what she says that she addresses an explicit audience with specific qualities? 2. Analyze paragraph 1 carefully for the use of imagery, especially metaphor. What are the effects of these images? Are they overdone? 3. Wollstonecraft begins by attacking property, or the respect paid to it. What does she mean? Does she sustain that line of thought throughout the piece? 4. In paragraph 12, Wollstonecraft speaks of the "bondage of ignorance" in which women are held. Clarify what she means by that expression. 5. In paragraph 30, Wollstonecraft says that people who are treated as if they were contemptible will become contemptible. Is this a political or a psychological judgment?

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