A Vindication of Woman's Rights is a novel written by Mary Wollstonecraft about how women are deprived of their rights due to the ideals of European society. Women are so blinded by society's ideals that they are unaware of the condition they find themselves in. Women in civilization only care about reading elegance and attractiveness instead of education. This civilization is under an arbitrary political power that desires women as slaves, confined to the home and concerned only with their “natural” tendencies to be modest, chaste and beautiful. These women are treated as inferior beings, too vulnerable to justify their basic rights. Mary Wollstonecraft believes that education in European society needs to change and should be what the national government is most concerned about because it will change the way women will be viewed. . Women are seen as weak, vain and indolent, which is why society deems them not good enough to be educated. Girls did not receive the same education as boys and both sexes were not allowed to do so ...