Here is a prompt with five documents. Can you write me a full score dbq essay ?
Prompt: Evaluate Whether the Enlightenment was a radical change or gradual reform.
Document 1:
Source: Emilie du Chatelete, French author, essay, published between 1743 and 1739
Let us reflect briefly on why for so many centuries, not one good tragedy, one good poem, one esteemed history,, one beautiful painting, one good book of physics, has come from the hands of women. Let someone give me an explanation, if there is one. I leave it to naturalists to find a physical explanation, but until that happens, women will be entitled to protest against their lack of education. As for me, I confess that if I were kind I would wish to make this scientific experiment. I would reform an abuse that cuts out, so to speak, half of humanity. I would allow women to share the rights of humanity, and most of all to those of the mind.
Document 2:
Source: Jean- Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract, 1763
Government is wrongly confused with the sovereign, whose agent it is. What then is government? It is an intermediary body established between the subjects and the sovereign to keep them in touch with each other. It is charged with executing the laws and maintaining both civil and political liberty.... The only will dominating government should be the general will or the law. The government's power is only the public power vested in it. As soon as [government] attempts to let any act come from itself completely independently, it starts to lose its intermediary role. If the time should ever come when the [government] has a particular will of its own stronger than that of the sovereign and makes use of the public power which is in its hands to carry out its own particular will-when there are thus two sovereigns, one in law and one in fact-at that moment the social union will disappear and the body politic will be dissolved.
Document 3:
Source: Queen Catherine II (the Great) of Russia, Instruction to the legislative Commission of 1767
13. What is the true end of monarchy? Not to deprive people of their natural liberty; but to correct
their actions in order to attain the supreme good.
14. The form of government, therefore, which best attains this end, and at the same time sets less bounds than others to natural liberty, is that which coincides with the views and purposes of rational creatures, and answers the end, upon which we ought to fix a steadfast eye in the regulations of civil polity.
15. A sense of liberty arises in a people governed by a monarch;which may produce in these states as much energy in transacting the most important affairs, and may contribute as much to the happiness of subjects, as even liberty itself.
Document 4:
Source: Louis-Sebastien Mercier, French playwright, A Scene of Paris, 1781
Religious freedom is entirely possible in Paris; never will you be held accountable for your beliefs. A bishop was once asked: ‘What are you complaining about? Have you ever seen a single act of sacrilege? Has a single philosopher ever disrupted even one catechism class? Have those who preach from the pulpit ever encountered a single heckler? They have always enjoyed the most gratifying right of all – that of never being interrupted or contradicted whatever they say’. And the bishop replied: ‘If only God would permit the occasional sacrilege! At least then people would still be thinking about us, but now they can’t even be bothered to show any disrespect’. The Enlightenment has brought us this desirable calm, and fanaticism has been left to consume itself.
Document 5:
Source: Pierre Charles Baquoy, French engraver, King Fredrick II (the Great) of Prussia visiting Voltaire, image originally created in 1795
