Natasha Mehta
Week 11 Response
ENG 364
Quote 1: “That wretched little Carcass you retain; The
Reason is, not that the World wants Eyes; But thou’rt so mean, they see, and
they despise. When fretful Porcupine, with rancorous Will, From mounted Back
shoots forth a harmless Quill, Cool the Spectators stand; and all the while,
Upon the angry little Monster smile” (Montagu, line 75).
Quote 2: “It is acknowledged that they spend many of the
first years of their lives in acquiring a smattering of accomplishments;
meanwhile strength of body and mind are sacrificed to libertine notions of
beauty, to the desire of establishing themselves,- the only way women can rise
in the world,- by marriage. And this desire making mere animals of them, when
they marry they act as such children may be expected to act:- they dress; they
paint, and nickname God’s creatures” (Wollstonecraft, 261).
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