AS I read Sor Juana’s poem and Mary Wollstonecraft’ “Vindication of the rights of Women”, I found that the essence of Enlightenment is the “knowledge is power” and “Human is a rational being” In addition to that essence, there is a belief that “ Education can change human”. Education can change ignorant people to knowledgeable people.During that time of periods when Sor Juana lived in colonized Mexico, There was the trend and social pressure that women can be elite. The definition of elite that time is that having an ability to think rationally since many of people didn’t have chance to get education. Sor Juana had the expectation that all ordinary people can also be able to have the ability to think rationally through proper education without any social pressure and religious pressure.
The author of “A Vindication of the Rights of Women” Mary Wollstonecraft claims that same as men, women has rational thinking mind. But during that time when Mary lived, Women are thought to be created to serve men. Because men had more power and social status in society so that women had to live under men for economic reason. She claims that women can be free from men by getting the ability to think rationally.
