Emma Watson's Heforshe Campaign

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“HeForShe” On September 20, 2014 Emma Watson gave a speech about gender equality. Watson is known for being an activist, someone who tries to help get a change in society. But she is better known as being Hermione Granger in Harry Potter, starring in various plays on broadway, or even modeling. She gave this speech in New York at the United Nations Headquarters trying to get people to join the “HeForShe” campaign by giving information about how the effects of gender inequality. Watson uses many different rhetorical strategies like logos, pathos, ethos, repetition, an allusion, and some diction. Watson has many different ideas on gender inequality. She starts out stating the definition of feminism and describing some of ways she was treated different because she is a women. Next she discusses how …show more content…

She gives an explanation of what people see feminist as. She then goes onto explaining what it is like for men to grow up in this society. She shows that they are just as much affected by gender based assumptions as women are. She talks about how people have to act a certain way to be accepted and how this is not okay. She shows the importance of men and women working together. Lastly she talks about joining the “HeForShe” campaign and how joining it will help end gender inequality. Watson uses many different techniques trying to persuade society to join “HeForShe” and to help make a difference. She uses various examples of pathos, ethos, and logos. Pathos is an emotional strategy. So it is used to try and get an emotional response from the people listening or reading. Watson uses, “I want men to take up this mantle. So their daughters, sisters and mothers can be free from prejudice but also so that

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