Poor Singing Dame

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Throughout time women were considered much less when compared to men. Being considered more like objects, women for several years were not able to voice their opinions in any matter. They constantly dealt with inequality and had to bear with the fact that men were granted advantages than the typical women. Since women relied on man for the most part of their lives, they were commonly considered as second class citizens. While reading “The Poor Singing Dame” by Mary Darby Robinson and “A Vindication of the Rights of Women” by Mary Wollstonecraft, the reader can get a glimpse of the mistreatment that women constantly faced for several centuries. Women, in general, came across and suffered from multiple obstacles to be where they are today. It …show more content…
Since women could not sustain themselves financially and economically they typically had to rely on a man for all of their basic needs. In this short story the author extremely emphasized that the dame was poor and joyful without the need of a man. Without acquiring the aspects that come with an education she could not sustain herself, like one would today with the proper schooling, and had to live in a noble low-status home. Since she did not necessarily rely on a man she had to make the best of what she had. Without having someone to obey and take care for the dame lived happily in her noble home, “For the old dame that lived in the little hut cheerly, Would sit at her wheel, and would merrily sing: “ (Robinson …show more content…
One of the expectations was to introduce the meaning of values and morals that were passed down from past generations to the new generations. The men mostly likely relied on the women to teach the children the significance of their values. In “A Vindication of the Rights of Women” women felt that it was selfish of men to leave them with all the responsibilities of taking care of a child plus having other duties, “....till men become attentive to the duty of a father, it is vein to expect women to spend that time in their nursery which they’ wise in their generation’ choose to spend at their glass; (Wollstonecraft 213). The raising of a child takes time and devotion from both parents in order to properly educate them. Rather than devoting their time and dedication to their offsprings men preferred to waste their time doing something else. Without having an example of independent women at a young age both boys and girls will keep repeating history’s mistakes of inequality, “ for this exertion of cunning is only an instinct of nature to enable them to obtain indirectly a little of that power of which they are unjustly denied a share.” (Wollstonecraft 213). Doing this so will allow men to pass down the injustice of inequality for generations to
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