Aphra Behn once said "he who knew all that knowledge ever written, knew only this: that he knew nothing yet." After the French Revolution, the Restoration period emerged and developed as a major influence in stylistic approaches and theoretical explorations of literature. During this period writers produced prose, drama, and blank verse. Eighteenth-century literature also unites a large group of different authors and poets, literary figures and orations. However, as a result, Milton and other famous male writers became known for adding value to our world by using their personal experiences to interpret through meaning a vivid understanding of life. However, women writers were stripped of their abilities and restrictions were put in place to uphold a traditional barrier between women and men. Women are characterized by various things and have been influenced by nature throughout existence just as Behn references Adam and Eve and what distinguished men from women (Longman Anthology of British Literature 2138). Silently perched in their birdcages, women are considered simply objects of beauty and are considered intellectually and physically inferior to men. This belief in the inferiority of women to men is further reinforced by organized religion that preached rigid and well-defined sexual roles. During the Romanticism period, artistic skills, literature and creative elements flourished through contemporary practices, going against the norm of society. This triggered an "era of emotions". Thereafter, women have brilliantly regained their assertiveness to challenge the historical constraints against them and rally in opposition to the unlikely odds. Aphra Behn's most enduring work, the novel Oroonoko... middle of paper. ..... This is certainly exemplified in Wordsworth's Floating Island where nature is given an overriding sense of being with the characteristics of a woman “but nature, though we mark it not, will take away – may cease to give (533). " Literature acquired much more meaning when women began to interpret the world through their eyes. The implication of literature grew and expanded universally. As for Behn and Wordsworth, literature brings with it rewards, as you acquire a sense of knowledge and experience. In other words, the writing process is condemned in our state of mind. Both Restoration and Romanticism explore women's transition from modest social individuals to obtaining authorship Damrosch, David, Susan J. Wolfson and Peter J. Manning. The Longman Anthology of British Literature.