Analysis Of The Great Lawsuit By Margaret Fuller

Margaret Fuller’s Firm Stance Margaret Fuller was one of the most influential woman of her time. She was a very intelligent woman that had concurred three languages by the age of thirteen. She used her knowledge to open the eyes of many people. She was a true Transcendentalist. She was very vocal about her views on gender roles of the nineteenth century even though they were not considered traditional. She challenged the conventional gender roles of the men and women. She was not afraid to tell women to fight for their natural rights. Her audience was composed of both men and women. She makes sure to point out that when she speaks of men, she is referring to both men and women. One of her greatest literature written was The Great Lawsuit. It was

In The Great Lawsuit she focused on several themes; the abolition of slavery and women’s rights, gender, Androgyny, intellectual companionship and religion (Moreland). There are several points in her literature that highlight her work in reference to gender roles. Fuller highly stresses the equality of gender roles throughout her literature. Women in this era are expected to stay home and tend to their family. They are not to assume any role that the man has. They are considered to be less than a man. One man speaks out and makes a comment about his wife; “She is to amiable to wish what would make me unhappy, and to judicious to wish to stop beyond the sphere of her sex” (Fuller 750). The gentleman was referring to the spheres as the socially constructed division of gender. According to Fuller,