Use both Olympe de Gouge’s “Declaration of the Rights of Women” and Condorcet’s “Future Progress of the Human Mind” (the texts for Class Discussion 5) to answer the following questions: How did the Enlightenment and French Revolution together make it possible for people to imagine a future world very different from their own? What changes do De Gouge and Condorcet want to see in a future society that is different from their present French society in the 1780s-1790s? Why do they believe that the changes they propose are possible and even realistic? Who else (use your textbook and lecture notes!!) in the eighteenth century was publishing proposals for a better future, and how might De Gouge and Condorcet have been inspired by those other texts?
Essay Instructions: Essay length: 1,000 words. Points may be earned:
- for ability to construct a defensible historical argument;
- for analyzing the topic within the relevant historical context;
- for supporting your argument with meaningful quotations taken from the textbook’s main text and/or relevant primary documents embedded in the textbook chapters;
- for the writing quality.
Points will be deducted for sloppy writing (spelling errors, poor grammar, etc.).
Points will be deducted for plagiarism (plagiarism = unattributed copying of information from textbook, Internet, or other written source including another student’s work).
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