Restoration Period Skills Focus – Analyzing tone and rhetorical devices contribution to themes

1. Restoration Period Skills Focus – Analyzing tone and rhetorical devices contribution to themes Mary Wollstonecraft’s “from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman” Daniel Defoe’s “from The Education of Women” Lady Chudleigh’s “To The Ladies”

2. Background Educating women – 18th Century Controversy Essayists calling for this revolutionary change select tone purposely when considering their audience.

3. Will arguments be dismissed? Female writers – Irrational? Emotional? Wollstonecraft strikes an earnest, sincere, formal and detached tone. Disarm critical reaction by limiting discourse. • Main points – links women’s education with improving society overall and notes current female character flaws resulting from limited education practices. • Logos and ethos targeted.

4. Poetic Rancor Lady Chudleigh attacks Bitter tone Notes “wife” equates in most homes to “servant” Pathos targeted

5. Male Advocate for Female Rights Daniel Defoe balancing act Relaxed and conversational tone Main points – desires education for women arguing that praising femininity while denying opportunity denigrates males rather than makes them gallant or superior. Logos and ethos targeted

6. Close ReadingMetacognitive Strategy: connotation Tone depicted through author’s word choice. Review all three writings and select specific words that reveal the tone. Wollstonecraft – earnest, sincere, formal and detached tone • Look for rational, scientific language Examples: “treatise” describes the argument, “natural pre-eminence” describes men’s physical strength

7. Defoe – relaxed, conversational tone Example: “Not that I am for exalting the female government in the least: but, in short, I would have men take women for companions, and educate them to be fit for it.”

8. Lady Chudleigh– bitter tone Examples: compares a husband to “an Eastern Prince,” describes marriage as the “Nuptial Contract.”

9. Close-Reading Practice:Rhetorical Devices Review each writer’s use of logos, pathos, ethos. Wollstonecraft – logos argument centered on “strength” and the superiority of one sex over the other. Defoe – logos argument centers on compatibility through dialogue Chudleigh – pathos due to word choice