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The Voice And Perception Of Women Essay

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The voice and perception of women have been every changing since the moment that God breathed life into Eve’s lungs while still in the Garden of Eden. Though she is not the first woman to ever be written about, there are many that consider her to be the first woman to walk on earth. She was made from Adam’s rib and designed to be an extension of him. Eve was to be his companion as he was to be her lord. She is the example that women are supposed to model themselves after, her mistake of eating the forbidden fruit notwithstanding. For centuries, in most literature women have either a limited or nonexistence voice. An idea that the modern woman could not fathom, since her voice now strong, loud, and demanding. It would be easy to take for granted the mountains and valleys her voice had to travel in order to be what it is now. Part of this journey is found in the way women were viewed in Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, John Ruskin’s Of Queen’s Garden, and Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own.
Like Eve, other women found on the pages – with some exception – were only meant to aid and support her male counterparts within the story, just as women were meant to do in real life. Much was not expected of women, other than to be the dutiful daughter and then wife. This was a fact that Romantic female writer, Mary Wollstonecraft took issue with in her essay A Vindication of the Rights of Woman:
Contending for the rights of woman, my main argument is built on

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