Malala Yousafzai Rhetorical Analysis

Malala Yousafzai once said, “When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful." The strength of a persistent voice has been present in the education and women's rights advocate, Malala Yousafzai. The outspoken voice of her writing and advocacy has put a target on her back by the military suppression of the Taliban regime in her home in Pakistan. Escalated to the point of physical harm through an assassin’s bullets, she had gotten struck down and rose again from physical pain to face the challenges put on by the suppressive and traditional nature of the terrorist organization, Taliban. Similarly to the obstacles faced by Malala Yousafzai, the challenges also encountered by Transcendentalist, Ralph Waldo Emerson, in his essay,

In Emerson’s essay, “Nature,” he argues that the individual thought versus the recreation of others’ work is extremely immoral. Leading to the point of time, “in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance” prompting this man to break free from the confines of others (Emerson 1). Reaching the apex of the realization that “imitation is suicide,” Emerson (DEVELOP WITH INFO) (Emerson 1). In other words, Emerson expresses the idea that the lack of movement within the intellectual self will only lead to a lack of psychological movement within the governed body. He presents a metaphor between the act of suicide and imitation. Ending one’s own life and the imitation of others’ ideals puts forth an attitude of giving up on new thought and further exploration of thoughts for not only a single person, but the entire community. Here, Emerson exemplifies the destructive nature of imitation to show that the suppression of original thought will be the driving factor in an unhappy, unproductive, and unsatisfied governed body. To further develop his argument, Emerson introduces uplifting guidance to the avoidance of imitation. Aiming to target the egotistical appeal of his audience, Emerson carries forward his campaign on the abolition of imitation with remarks towards the campaign of individualism. Being ignorant makes it “easy...to live

Displayed front and center was the call for government disobedience called for than in Henry David Thoreau’s “Civil Disobedience.” Living in full by the motto, “government is best” when “governs least,” Thoreau takes this idea very seriously as he develops new concepts (Thoreau 382). In other words, the government is best when it is least involved with the people. An example of this, which Thoreau derived his opinion from, is the taxation to support and fuel the slave trade society of the southern antebellum. These independent citizens are at a disadvantage because they were forced to adhere to ideals they did not fully support. Through such a situation, the unjust tax money is failed to be discussed between the governed people, rather in the hands of the corrupt limited government lies the fate of the economic fuel. Additionally, Thoreau sheds more light on the specific encroachments that the seemingly perfect government has committed with no limitations. Taking into account that the “mass men serve the state… not as men mainly, but as machines” the work force is driven by supply rather than demand (Thoreau 383). This magnification at the central body of the governed people, in conjunction with the government, exemplifies the physical action of the statement, ignorance is bliss. Thus proving that the avoidance and coherence with the state will lead to a brain wash effect within the mass