ENGL 2P21 Lecture 12: Lecture 12.docx
13 Mar 2014
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Maria works to control her emotions: emotion on its own disempowers humans; writing in a cultural context where women were seen on having a special kind of sensibility. Maria"s attempt to rise above the situation and critically think about situation. Wollstonecraft puts at the center a character who is always marginalized; Marias usually occupy the margin (die of childbirth, consumption, ect: the didactic warning character occupies status of heroine, pg. 168: (bottom) had she remained with her husband, practising insincerity and managing her child : mary: wollstonecraft the saturust goes after adherence to virtue. Pope: epistle to a lady: goes after characters who perform virtue but behind closed doors behave very differently: w: political system, pope: individual moral failing. Difference between what motivates the satire between authors. When maria is institutionalized, there is a political motivation to label her mad. Dramatizes political theory: imports a lot of political analysis from those texts (vindication of men and women)
