Tdqs For English Weebly
Tdqs For English Weebly
Tdqs For English Weebly
speaker/ Wollstonecraft.
narrator ?
Purpose When it states, like the flowers which are planted in too rich a
What is the soil, strength and usefulness are sacrificed to beauty; and the
authors reason
flaunting leaves, after having pleased a fastidious eye, fade,
behind this text?
disregarded on the stalk(Wollstonecraft), Wollstonecraft wanted
to tell women to strengthen their minds and their bodies.
TDQs
Reread lines 16 Wollstone uses an antithesis when she states, my spirits, and I
and identify have sighed when obliged to confess, that either nature has made
where a great difference between man and man, or that the civilization
Wollstonecraft which has hitherto taken place in the world has been very
uses antithesis. partial(Wollstone 3). Her purpose in using an antithesis is for
What is her readers to grasp that nature and civilization are two contrasting
purpose in using things that both put an emphasis on the rate of women
antithesis in this education.
passage?
Summarize the When Wollstonecraft states The understanding of the sex has
claim been so bubbled by this specious homage that the civilized
Wollstonecraft women of the present century..are only anxious to inspire love,
asserts and when they ought to cherish a nobler ambition(Wollstone 20)
supports in lines she claims and supports that women are faulty educated for the
1837. benefit of men right.
Cite the opposing When Wollstonecraft states, I am aware of an obvious
viewpoint that interference: from every quarter have I heard exclamations
Wollstonecraft against masculine women; but where are they to be found? If by
identifies in lines this appellation men mean to inveigh against their ardor in
4349. How does hunting, shooting, and gaming, I shall most..join in the cry..but if
she concede, or it be against the imitation of manly virtues, or, more properly
admit, this speaking (Wollstonecraft 45) readers infer that she admits that
viewpoint and there should be a manly line that women should not cross,
how does she such as going shooting, but she then goes on to argue that
argue against it? although there are some things women should not do, being able
to speak up, voice their opinion, or educate themselves, should
not be part of that restriction.
What is the The purpose of the rhetorical question in lines 54-57 is for
purpose of the readers to understand that women shouldnt have to have their
rhetorical hand held, they should already be able to make their own
question in lines decisions instead of a man making it for them.
5457?
Reread lines 65 When it states , The education of women has, of late, been
75 and interpret more attended to than formerly; yet they are still reckoned a
what frivolous sex, and ridiculed or pitied by the writers who
Wollstonecraft endeavor by satire or instruction to improve
really means in themselves(Wollstonecraft 63) readers can infer that this
the first sentence sentence speaks of the ridicule women who try to educate
of the paragraph. themselves, receive from men.
At whom
Wollstonecraft
directs this
sarcastic remark.
Why does she do
so?
Identify the claim Wollstonecraft states, The woman who has only been taught to
in lines 7699 and please will soon find that her charms are oblique sunbeams, and
the reasons and that they cannot have much effect on her husband's heart when
evidence that they are seen every day, when the summer is passed and hone.
Wollstonecraft Will she then have sufficient native energy to look into herself
uses to support it. for comfort (Wollstonecraft 95). She relates women to beautiful
How women flowers and claims that a flowers beauty does not last long.
might exhibit Additionally, she believes women exhibit susceptibility of heart
susceptibility of which can be seen as a weakness because it can affect what a
heart and why it women thinks about herself.
might be seen as
a weakness.
Reread lines 106 Wollstonecraft states, I now speak of women who are
111 and restate restrained by principle or prejudice; such
the opposing woman(Wollstonecraft 106). She is claiming that women
claim that believe they have no other choice than to obey the other gender
Wollstonecraft and conform to the roles they were given, when in reality, they
identifies in this do have a choice but they fear taking it.
paragraph
Reread lines 114 When Wollstonecraft states, The heart should be made clean..it
136 and identify is not very difficult to fulfil with scrupulous exactness when vice
an example of reins in the heart(Wollstonecraft 129) and it is only useful to a
analogy and an mistress; the chaste wife, and serious mother, should only
example of consider her power to please as the opolis of her
antithesis. Then virtues(Wollstonecraft 114), she gives an example of an
explain how each antithesis and an analogy. By using an analogy helps clarify to
device reader the difference between a strong woman and a weak one.
strengthens By using a antithesis, she helps readers understand the choices
Wollstonecrafts women have, and the choices they instead choose.
counterargument.
Reread lines 162 The author states, frailties of her companion, but to bear with
163 and them:his character may be a trial, but not an impediment to
explain the virtue (Wollstonecraft 162). Affection means a feeling of
meaning of fondness while affectation means behavior designed to impress.
affection and These words strengthen the authors writing because by using
affectation. these specific two words, she can describe her argument which
Explain how is for women to defer the correct, and incorrect, way to show
these word their affection.
choices
strengthen
Wollstonecrafts
writing.
Reread lines 163 Wollstonecraft states men are stronger than women. She
172 and identify continues to states that if women want to close the gap between
the earlier the two genders, the they need to strengthen their mind and their
opposing bodies.
viewpoint that is
restated here. If
students are
unsure, suggest
that they reread
lines 43-45.
Summarize
Wollstonecrafts
counterargument
s in one-two
sentences.
Reread lines 179 When Wollstone states, In fact, the conduct of an accountable
202 and identify being must be regulated by the operations of its own reason; or
the places where on what foundation rests the throne of God? (Wollstonecraft
Wollstonecraft 170) she appeals to logic and reason. She places emphasis on
appeals to logic reason and appeals to rational people in her argument about
and reason. education for women because she wants women to know that
Discuss why she reason is not limited to only man. She states it extends to
placed such everyone and not just the gender that controlled how women
emphasis on were to be educated.
reason and
an appeal to
rational people in
her argument
about
education for
women.