Essays about: "Mary Wollstonecraft"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 essays containing the words Mary Wollstonecraft.

  1. 1. Emerging Feminism and Patricharchal values in Austen's Emma

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)

    Author : Isabella Boseovska; [2022]
    Keywords : Feminism; Patriarchy; change; growth; Mary Wollstonecraft; character;

    Abstract : This thesis aims to investigate the patriarchal values and feminist ideas in the novel Emma in Jane Austen. The focus of this thesis is on how patriarchy and feminism is portrayed in the novel Emma. READ MORE

  3. 2. “I’ve a right to think” : A Reading of Alice in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland as a Reflection of Early Feminism in the Victorian Era

    University essay from

    Author : Josephine Flottrong; [2019]
    Keywords : Alice’s adventures in Wonderland; Lewis Carroll; the Victorian era; early feminism; education; equality; emancipation;

    Abstract : In this essay I claim that Alice in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is a character who reflects the early feminist movement in the 19th century. By reading Alice in terms of a resemblance to the early feminist activists and the first modern feminist text A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft, I explore the idea of Alice’s characteristics being comparable to those values and thoughts which the feminist movement expressed. READ MORE

  4. 3. The Coming of Age of a Woman : Proto-feminism and Female Bildung in Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Therese Landh; [2018]
    Keywords : Bildungsroman; Enlightenment feminism; Jane Austen; Mary Wollstonecraft; Proto-feminism;

    Abstract : This thesis examines the influence of the proto-feminist ideas of the Enlightenment on Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey, specifically their presence in the coming-of-age journey of the novel’s heroine Catherine Morland. In this thesis, the proto-feminist ideas of the Enlightenment discussed are based on the ideas of Mary Wollstonecraft as presented in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. READ MORE

  5. 4. "Oh, Praise the Eternal Justice of Man!" A Feminist Reading of the Monster in Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein"

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Author : Lotta Svensson; [2013-06-26]
    Keywords : Mary Shelley; Frankenstein; feminism; Mary Wollstonecraft; the other; Simone de Beauvoir;

    Abstract : This essay studies the monster of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein from a feminist point of view and sheds a new light on the meaning behind the monster. The aim is to show that the monster - in his development from uninformed to liberated - is in fact a feminist heroine figure that strives to attain equality through fighting patriarchy, which in this essay is represented by his creator, Victor Frankenstein. READ MORE

  6. 5. Wollstonecraft's Mary and Maria: Creating Feminist Propaganda through Fiction

    University essay from Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Emma Knutsson; [2013]
    Keywords : Mary Wollstonecraft; feminist propaganda;

    Abstract : This essay attempts to define Mary Wollstonecraft’s Mary: A Fiction and Maria or The Wrongs of Woman as early feminist propaganda from its historical perspective. Initially, feministic values as well as propaganda are connected to the eighteenth century with the help of contemporary scholars. READ MORE