Madeleine Albright Rhetorical Analysis

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United States Secretary of State Madeleine Albright gave a speech to the graduating class of 1997 at Mount Holyoke College, a women's college in Massachusetts. Albright effectively conveys the female audience to recognize their potential and advances by mentioning recent events, swaying recent to current events, using an anaphora while appealing to emotion. To start, she accordingly utilizes recent events such as referring to the Berlin wall and the creation of the North Atlantic Treaty of April 4, 1949 to show the enormous advances in status of women. She quickly begins by saying that the Berlin wall, a wall set to separate west and east Berlin, is a memory. In doing so, she cleverly hints and compares the advancement of history to current struggles of women …show more content…

This represents and shows the power of those going against harsh norms and how they are the ones choosing what is right or wrong; thus empowering those in the crowd and raising up a correct and moral choice they can make at any time. Albright further spans her audience by mentioning countries such as Burundi and Guatemala, bravely using an anaphora to show the wide scale of the problem. She sadly brings up women s personal griefs, that weighs them down, as a problem around the world; additionally, once she mentioned a country she followed with a short description of how the women are fighting back. Something captivating that was profoundly notable was Guatemala s problems which can be linked to the rapid culture loss at Lago Atitlan which also directly forces harder gender social norms on the indigenous people. This enlarges the view of the problem, making it worldwide wide; therefore, making them more against those who actively are against those gender norms. Finally, emotions such as pride and hope are expressed near the end of Albright's speech where she encourages the audience to

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