Part one of term paper
Contrasting the modern day women to the women in Voltaire’s period, we can look into the past and the present and see how women’s roles have changed. Women tried to overcome the notion that they are more than just sex objects, alive just to satisfy a mans needs and desires. There were unjust attitudes, such as the subordinate role of w ...

Part two of term paper
... objects. The way the men treated the women in Voltaire’s period was so deplorable that women could not do anything that they wanted to do. Their level of education was poor. Despite the fact that the Baron had tutors, in the sciences and philosophies, the women in the household were not entitled to any sort of training or education by the philosopher Pangloss. They were not formally taught and if they wanted to learn things, they would have to go to private tutoring without the knowledge o ...