This week there were five articles for the assignments and they were all talking in a similar way, about declaring for independence and liberty, claiming for equal rights and fair treatment. However, the language the authors used in the writing were really hard for me. The language styles were hard for me to understand the truth meaning of the articles. In this way, I took the article “Declaration of Sentiments” for discussing. Basically, the article was written by women for claiming about the equal rights and opportunities as men. They believed all humans were created equally and should be treated equally. They should get the equal rights and opportunities as men.
The article was written in a very special ways. In the beginning of the article, it started with all capital letter word “WHEN”, and then use a comma to separate the next part of the sentence. Usually, “when” refers a particular time or moment. As “WHEN” was capital in all letter, the author regarded it as a very important and serious time and moment. There should be some important events happened or some serious things to tell next in the article. Also, most of its paragraphs were written very short with only one to two sentences. For those paragraphs, they all started with “He”. All those paragraphs were listing about how men treated women in a very unequal and unfair way. Men prevented women from doing anything included in politics and in life. Men took everything from women and limited their activities. Women believed that if men did not do such things to women, if they could get the equal opportunities as men, women might be done as well as men or even better than men. Women believed men and women should be treated equally and nobody should take away the rights from them. Writing about these, women hoped all people included men could be enlightened.
After reading the article, I was someway loved the author’s writing style even though I might not understand the author wholly.
From Declaration of Sentiments, I realize that women were in a very low position at that time. From “He” in this article appears all the time. He means males in the world, so we can recognize that even in the Declaration of Sentiments; people would focus on the rights of men. It was unfair that women were out of these rights cannot state in a equal position as men. I cannot understand that men and women all belong to human, why women cannot get equal situation as men. Why most leaders in the beginning were men, not women. Women can also do anything as men, but they did not have these opportunities to do it. Therefore, there is a Enlightenment that help women to get their equal rights as men.