Comparing Elizabeth Stanton’s Declaration of Sentiments and The Women’s

Elizabeth Cady Stantons Declaration of Sentiments and The Womens Bible Elizabeth Cady Stanton was one of the most renowned women to lead campaigns for womens rights. Her efforts were focused on opportunities for women, for married womens property rights, the right to divorce, and the right to custody of children her most radical demand was for womens right to vote (Davidson and Wagner-Martin 845). In general Stanton wished to instill independence and confidence in all women. Stanton was an inspiring orator of speeches including the Declaration of Sentiments as well as the book The Womens Bible. Upon analysis of her speeches and other works, as well as gaining knowledge of her background, one is able to assume that personal experience strongly affected her writing, which illustrates her writing as representative in that it addressed inequality ground on the issue of gender. Another factor that influenced her writing was the way in which she interpreted the great works, the Declar ation of Independence and the Holy Bible. Noticing the obvious discrimination and guidelines rigid for women, Elizabeth Cady Stanton composed a new women friendly version of each that she called the Declaration of Sentiments and The Womens Bible. It has been noted that Elizabeth Cady Stantons father on several occasions evince that he wished Elizabeth had been a boy. Even when she excelled in life and completed tasks in attempts to please him, he uninterruptedly reminded her it was a shame she was born a girl. His constant reminder expressed to Elizabeth that her father believed that only males could be successful, which merely fueled her ambition to succeed and prove the contrary along with ensuring that other women follow... ..., she was merely seek to make her point known and knew that she must be forceful about her beliefs to order to get attention and get her point across. Stanton is a woman to enjoy for the work and success she accomplished in the fight for womens right s. Works Cited Banner, Lois W. Elizabeth Cady Stanton A Radical for Womans Rights. Boston Little, Brown and Company, 1980. Davidson, Cathy N. and Linda Wagner-Martin. The Oxford Companion to Womens Writing In The United States. radical York Oxford United Press, 1995. Lauter, Paul. The Heath Anthology of American Literature. Boston Houghton Mifflin Company, 1998. Nelson, Thomas. The Holy Bible. Nashville Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1985. Stanton, Elizabeth Cady. The Womens Bible. New York Arno Press, 1972. Ward, Geoffrey C. Not for Ourselves Alone. New York Alfred A. Knopf, 1999.