Overall, its aim was to break down the dominant ideology that women were far inferior to men and to enlighten women that it is their right human experience life to its fullest. Wollstonecraft explains that women's role in life, or society, was prescribed by men. Throughout history, man has condemned woman to a role in society equivalent to that of the animal. Women were nothing more than docile, innocent, weak objects for their husbands to control. Wollstonecraft, however, aims to shatter that ideology in which she explains that women, even if physically weaker than men, have the same natural rights as men. She points out that women were put here on Earth to explore their full potential, and Wollstonecraft hopes to encourage women to become more educated to allow their own free will. It is also significant to consider the period in which Wollstonecraft wrote “The Vindication of the Rights of Woman”. It was written during the time of the American and French revolutions, both of which were founded on the ideology of freedom. Specifically, the American Revolution strongly professed the ideals of liberalism, republicanism, and that all men are created equal. The “claiming of women's rights” coincides with the notion that all men are created equal; however, Wollstonecraft argues that "men" were the only ones to benefit from equality. He believed that women were excluded from this revolutionary idea of ​​freedom and hoped to secure their right