Compare and contrast the works of Margret Fuller's "The Great Lawsuit" and Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Self-Reliance". Explain how they relate and differ in their writing and personal lifestyle, and compare and contrast context, themes, word choice, tone, and/or other elements of style.

Margret Fuller's "The Great Lawsuit. Man versus Men. Woman versus Women," which was expanded and published in book form as Woman in the Nineteenth Century, was transcendentalist in philosophy, just like Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay "Self-Reliance." The difference is that Fuller's essay and subsequent book narrowed the philosophical rhetoric into the context of women's rights and what could be considered by modern scholars as feminism.
"Self-Reliance," on the other hand, had a more universal approach, but it could be argued that Emerson's viewpoints in "Self-Reliance" is that from the male perspective. In other words, Emerson had good intentions in writing the essay and he might have viewed his transcendentalist philosophy as universal, but he subconsciously and inherently articulated the perspective of a man.
While "The Great Lawsuit" also touched on universal concepts such as the human and nature dynamics and the deeper meaning to our relations with the earth, Fuller then presents her thesis that it will be women who will usher in the great awakening, or the enlightenment of the human civilization. She posits that the path to enlightenment must first go through equality for men and women.
Fuller states that even men have tried to dominate other men in a fight to the top of a hierarchy. For example, non-white men in America were not equal to white men despite the supposed enlightened ideas of the forefathers about liberty and justice. Emerson himself could be an example of this criticism indirectly, as he was a white male who wrote a philosophical essay about enlightenment—or liberating one's self from the enslavement of the material world—without actually experiencing true slavery like African Americans did. Fuller argues that these inequalities prevented the human race from reaching true enlightenment.
Another difference between Fuller and Emerson's respective works is that "The Great Lawsuit" has a political undertone that is similar to feminist manifestos and call-to-arms published during the 1970s. Whilst Emerson's "Self-Reliance" has been interpreted in the political science and political philosophy fields, Emerson's work doesn't have the same militant tone as Fuller's.
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