The memoirs of Maria to her daughter disclose the “circumstances which, during her childhood, occurred to fashion her mind” (Wollstonecraft 123). Mary Wollstonecraft is an epitome of such people based on the way she represents a feminine subjectivity in her novel that is overt and radically political.
The liberalization of the woman, therefore, depends upon the active participation of the woman in the endeavor rather than reliance on other social forces to bring about change.Ī good number of playwrights have devoted their lives into addressing the subject of femininity.
This paper argues that political consciousness and positive reconstruction of social identities are essential steps towards the liberalization of the woman in the eighteenth century as portrayed in the two novels. The main heroines in the two novels seek to subvert the social order of the sublime patriarchy by claiming more liberalized identities and forging alliances, however, in different ways. The woman has to reconsider the limiting identity that the patriarchal society has accorded her and form alliances that will ensure that she overturns the social order.
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