Like this blog has been written very late, so to have we read this essay, much to late to mean anything. I am convinced that the sole purpose of this essay was to challenge us with a tough vocabulary and learn to to read a very difficult kind of writing style, for the content is outdated by a few decades. Although this does bring to thought that it did take over 150 years from this essay for women to reach the vindication Wollstonecraft speaks of in this essay.
One of the most obvious techniques Wollstonecraft uses in this essay to prove a woman's equality in society is her very intelligent writing style and use of grammar and incredibly advanced vocabulary. However, based on the time that this was written, this may have been less effective. To me it seemed that when she wrote this essay she wanted this to reach people as far as she could, but the difficulty of the essay may have surpassed the reading capability of many men and woman living at the time making it very hard to distribute this across a wide range.
The overall content of the essay was also a bit contradictory. She talks about how the roles of women that need to change from being the keeper of the house, but she also says she does not wish for a total social disruption to come in the process, yet this is highly improbable. She seems to expect that her ideas are completely right and that after reading what she has said, everyone will agree with her and it will just happen, and we know today that this is simply not the case.
The last thing about this essay was that it was hard to read just because of the simple fact that it is outdated for us. Because of this many of the points she made in here have already been changed, many references to popular writers like Milton mean less to us than people at around that time, and many things she thinks that should change would have little affect on life today. Constantly she talked about how kids in schools were taught about the roles of women to stay at home and take care of the family and the more virtuous man did the work to support them, but today this is no longer the case. Her attacks on Rousseau and Milton mean so much less to us than I would guess to people back in the 18th century and so many of the references to their works are lost to us who have not studied them.The one thing that I did like about this essay was her belief in the need of a friendship within any marriage and that people cannot just rely on passion and affection. They have to have a bond that is stronger than a relationship for pleasure and image of a normal household for society's sake.
Overall I think that this essay is too outdated to be relevant to our lives today and that it would be better substituted with a different essay that gives a more modern view of this subject.
