Mary Wollstonecraft was a participant in and observer of a significant range of social changes; The first was Enlightenment thinking that viewed institutions as obsolete and in need of revision, along with changes in religious beliefs, educational theory, and domestic structure. A claim for women's rights is closely associated with Enlightenment thought that aimed to give reason to identity and rights, giving reason to these essential human rights that society begins to think differently about their existence. Women during the 18th and 19th centuries found themselves separated from the ideology that provided the lifeblood of society, meaning that women were more like observers than participants, which fueled Wollstonecraft's battle against women being governed and contained by a society that he had never been allowed to be. part of. Jane Austen's Mansfield Park was written in a time when men and women had very different existences within society, it was empirical that both males and females met the expectations of their specific sex. Men were privileged as the dominant gender, free to shape and control their surrounding society, leaving women to accept a life with very little freedom; a private, domestic existence. This brings us back to one of Wollstonecraft's arguments that women had very few options when it came to bettering themselves, marriage was the only acceptable route to wealth and protection. Austen offers her readers a broad vision that represents multiple levels of groups within society, along with the components that make up the culture around her, one of the ways Austen achieved this was by creating the character of Fanny Price at Mansfield Park. Yet this novel has not... middle of paper... I have, regarding the women rather as women than as human creatures, been more anxious to make them seductive lovers than affectionate wives and rational mothers." (Wollstonecraft, 5) Wollstonecraft and Austen are similar in the belief that the seduction of puerile achievements is transitory with the aim of transforming the 19th century curriculum, laid out for women by men, without any attempt to improve the scope of their reason and understanding the social sphere anymore; broad Both writers aim to allow women to draw every realistic experience from marriage, however for women to advance mentally and emotionally these marriages must be partnerships, Austen raises Wollstonecraft's argument to reach women during her time. , discounting blind obedience as nothing more than another male pleasure; advising that reason will be far more beneficial instead.