#Flower symbol for female strength full
In the Introduction to the work, she compares women to “flowers which are planted in too rich a soil, strength and usefulness…sacrificed to beauty…the flaunting leaves, after having pleased a fastidious eye, fade, disregarded on the stalk, long before the season when they ought to have arrived at maturity.” She uses this image to argue that when women’s minds are not properly nourished in the “soil” of education, with attention lavished on external beauty instead, they will begin to fade and languish long before their prime, never having reached their full intellectual and moral potential.
In A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Mary Wollstonecraft sometimes uses flowers, or plants, to symbolize the planting, nourishing, and blooming of human virtue-or the failure to achieve this.
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