When I first started reading this essay, I was very interested in the topic and the passion that Wollstonecraft wrote with. Wollstonecraft transferred her emotions into the paper, and as a reader, I could feel them come off the page. There were some confusing parts; I didn't understand who some people were in the essay, and some of the words were just too Old English for me.
The flow was nice from the beginning, going from a women to a man to a child. The examples Wollstonecraft criticized were also nicely done, organized well, and explained thoroughly. However I think that how Wollstonecraft described a woman was not well done. She made me think that the women in that time were stupid and incompetent.
Wollstonecraft also added extra bits about soldiers and love that were not needed and actually distracted from her point and the focus of the essay. Also, about half way through the paper, Wollstonecraft got a little redundant. She stated that women were flimsy characters and needed to be treated equally so that they could get a chance to be something else. The last couple pages were basically that just reworded into more confusing words. I mean come on, we got the point already!
Wollstonecraft didn't have the opposing side in her paper either. She just stated her beliefs like they were the only choice and that she was 100% correct. Well i'm sure people in that time didn't exactly agree with her, so why didn't she explain their ideas, and then write why she thought they were wrong?
Some pages in the essay just got so boring I couldn't read it, and had to skim. Also the organization was off in some parts, and the flow became choppy and skewed towards the end.
By the end of the essay, I was glad to just have finished it without falling asleep.
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