Margaret Fuller was an outspoken women's rights activist and talked mostly on the controversial topic of women's rights. In her book “Women in the nineteenth century”, she spoke on the need for equality between men and women. In her story she addressed how bad the conditions were for women, it got to the point that she compared women to slaves. When attempting to get her point across she used one of the tenets of transcendentalism: individualism and self-reliance are better than following others or depending on tradition. She believed that women deserved to be treated as an equal to men and said in her book that “the restrants upon the sex were insuperable only to who think them so, or who noisily strive to break them” (Lines 27-29). I interpreted this as she thought it could be possible to overcome if you believed it could and did not have any doubt. Moreover she wanted to be treated equal to men, she did not want to be a man. She clarified this in lines 71-74, “I declared my faith that the feminine side, the side of love, of beauty, of holiness, was now to have its full chance, and that, if either were better, it was better now to be a woman, for even the slightest achievement of good was furthering an especial work for our time”. She set the stepping stone for equality of
Margaret Fuller was an outspoken women's rights activist and talked mostly on the controversial topic of women's rights. In her book “Women in the nineteenth century”, she spoke on the need for equality between men and women. In her story she addressed how bad the conditions were for women, it got to the point that she compared women to slaves. When attempting to get her point across she used one of the tenets of transcendentalism: individualism and self-reliance are better than following others or depending on tradition. She believed that women deserved to be treated as an equal to men and said in her book that “the restrants upon the sex were insuperable only to who think them so, or who noisily strive to break them” (Lines 27-29). I interpreted this as she thought it could be possible to overcome if you believed it could and did not have any doubt. Moreover she wanted to be treated equal to men, she did not want to be a man. She clarified this in lines 71-74, “I declared my faith that the feminine side, the side of love, of beauty, of holiness, was now to have its full chance, and that, if either were better, it was better now to be a woman, for even the slightest achievement of good was furthering an especial work for our time”. She set the stepping stone for equality of