Many people think feminism and the effort of fighting for women rights belongs to women, they neglect the fact that men also take a significant part in fighting for equality. To persuade people to take move in an unpopular event, the speech requires tactical reasoning and deliberate use of rhetorical elements. Rhetorical devices include, logos, pathos, and ethos; to deliver a compelling speech the speaker needs to utilize these rhetorical devices to form deliberate and tactical reasoning. In Emma Watson’s speech at United Nation, she employs tactical reasoning and rhetorical elements to persuade men in joining the HeForShe campaign.
To give a compelling speech and persuade the audience to partake the move, speakers need to establish credibility to the audience by showing how they qualify for the speech using personal experiences. Especially for celebrity-fronted campaigns, audience tend to doubt the integrity behind the movement, however, Watson successfully confirms her credibility to the audience through sharing her personal experiences of facing female discrimination, emphasizing it using repetition. In the beginning of her speech, Watson repeatedly uses “when” for
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four times to state her own experience of how people stereotyped women and men, generating black and white rules that each gender should follow (Eidenmuller). Through using repetition, “ I think” and “when at,” at the beginning of her speech, Watson succeeds in confirming her qualification for the speech by stating her experience of facing inequality. She elucidates to the audience the cruel discrimination that women still face in society, consequently establishing ethos in her speech. While ethos does persuade the audience effectively, speakers also need to incorporate concrete evidence in the speech to verify the authenticity of their statement.
In her speech for advocating HeForShe campaign, Watson utilizes definitions and statistics to support her claim. Watson first defines the definition of feminism by Merriam Webster, the well-known dictionary, in the beginning of her speech, “For the record, feminism by definition is “the belief that men and women should have equal rights and opportunities. It is the theory of the political, economic, and social equality of the sexes” (Eidenmuller). Through showing the definition, Watson demonstrates to the audience what her arguments are based on, and clears the misconception people have against feminism, thus, strengthening her
argument. Furthermore, Watson also includes statistics to show the long period it would take for women to fight for equality if they lack the help of men, saying, “…because the reality is that if we do nothing it will take 75 years… before women can expect to be paid the same as men. … And at current rates it won’t be until 2086 before all rural African girls can have a secondary education.” (Eidenmuller). These evidences shows that people still need to fight for women’s equality and also shows the audience how desperately women needs help in order to stop theses inequalities women face. Therefore by stating various evidences to support her claim, Watson demonstrates to the audience even until today discrimination against women still exists, and women and men should work together to stop this inequality people face. Although Watson included significant evidence and established credibility, her emotional appeal to the audience is what makes this speech whole and complete. Throughout her speech, Watson purposefully included rhetoric questions, such as “If not me, who? If not now, when?” (Eidenmuller). Through using rhetoric questions, Watson makes emotional appealing to the audience, compelling them to feel obligated to take a part in fighting for female equality. Not only so, Watson addresses the audience directly and makes her statement personally appealing using her careful diction. In her speech, Watson constantly uses, “you”, “us” and “we”; through directly addressing the audience, she maintains emotional connection with them and ensures that the audience realizes they have a significant role in feminism regardless of their gender.
Clare Boothe Luce constructs the introduction of her speech to the Women’s National Press club in a very intriguing manner, to catch the attention of her audience. She writes her introduction, almost as if she is condemning her audience for their general tendencies to indulge in news stories, whether they are true or not. Luce’s unique introduction has captured many people’s attention by using an abundance of rhetorical strategies. Luce uses many persuasive rhetorical techniques to express the importance of the truth, especially in regards to present-day news corporations and organizations.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, along with many other women, packed into a convention on a hot July day to all fight for a common cause; their rights. At the first Women’s Rights convention, Stanton gave a heroic speech that motivated the fight for the cause to be even stronger. Through Stanton’s appliances of rhetorical devices such as emotional, logical, and ethical appeals, she was able to her win her point, change the opinions of many, and persuade people to follow her.
Margaret Thatcher’s eulogy of the deceased president, Ronald Regan, had a purpose which was to comfort the people of the United States, and to brag on all of his policies that he created in his term. Thatcher uses various tactics such as antithesis, anaphora, and hyperbole to make her speech as appealing and comforting as possible for the American people. Using these rhetorical devices she is appealing to the mourning nation.
Have you ever wondered how influential people write great speeches that grab people's attention? They use a literary device called, rhetorical appeals. As supported in Hillary Clinton’s November 03, 2016 speech, uniting the American Public, will lead to an advantageous country. In her speech for the Democratic National Convention it states that, as elected for president, she will get everyone saying “We” instead of “I”. To reach out to the American Citizens and grab their attention, Clinton uses many rhetorical devices as she speaks. Using Logos, Pathos, and Ethos, the people of America jump on board with Clinton's ideas.
Few people are fearless speakers. As students, we generally feel the rumble of butterflies in our stomachs, but the most we have to lose is a good grade.
The two biggest wars in the world were the Great War and The World War 2 that have ended a long time ago. However, there is still another war ongoing in the world, it is a “Women’s war.” In this war, women are fighting for their own rights in every country include American. In order to encourage women in this long fight, on September 5, 1995, Hillary Clinton gave the “Women’s right are Human’s right” speech at the United Nation’s Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing. She argued for the equal rights of the women and against the abuse of women around the world. Logos, ethos, parallelism are three elements make “Women’s right are Human’s right” an effective speech.
As a very left wing politician, Julia Gillard does not hold back when addressing major and controversial topics. Her speeches have highlighted movements and injustices, shedding light to problems occurring in her home continent, worldwide. One of Gillard’s most renowned speeches, the Misogyny Speech is a great example of her aggressive manner in fighting for justice. She uses words to fight for change, allowing diction to be her catalyst for a movement in society. Julia Gillard effectively illustrates her message to her audience through successful use of available means while responding to the proposed problem in a fitting manner. As a result of her appropriate rhetorical advance,
...women has escalated to an all-time high. Hillary Clinton’s speech “Women’s Rights are Human Rights” targets this growing problem and by portraying a purpose, style and language, and different appeals to the audience effectively.
Overall, Hillary Rodham Clinton gave a convincing speech on women’s rights at the U.N. World Conference by using the key rhetorical techniques ethos, pathos, logos, and anaphora’s. The use of these techniques helped the audience believe in the cause of which Clinton was speaking about, sympathize for situations females were being put through, and working to strive towards equal rights for everyone. Clinton used the same stance throughout her speech and raised her voice at points in her speech that needed
Hillary Clinton speech “Women Rights” transmitted a crucial message to the world and that was to do something about gender inequality. Pathos helped transmit an emotional appeal to the audience and make them see the soft side of Clinton. Pathos and Logos supported the facts stated to the public with evidence and compassionate words. The rhetorical device of repetition made it possible for the audience to realize the level of importance the topic had. Altogether made the speech have the great impact on people’s perspectives about women
Nelson Mandela once said “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world”. It is the very same “legacy of change” that Nelson Mandela used that inspires what Malala Yousafzai does today. At the age of 15, Malala Yousafzai was shot in the head by the Taliban for advocating for girls’ education. Since this appalling incident, Malala has gone on to be the youngest person to win the Nobel Peace Prize, start the “Malala Fund”, that funds education in developing countries, and is currently the figure of women’s rights. Malala has been constantly speaking, advocating and helping women and children acquire the rights they deserve. In her powerful speech to the U.N, she opened the world’s eyes to the truth about education
At first, Cooper explains the advantages of equality, because “the acquirement of [women’s] ‘rights’ will mean the final triumph of all right over might, the supremacy of the moral forces of reason, and justice and love in the government of the nations of earth” (Cooper). This shows that if she can advocate for women’s rights, the rights of all people will be able to be guaranteed. Her use of reasoning appeals to the audience because they realize that she makes a good point by addressing the positive outcomes of equality. Like Sojourner Truth, Cooper’s logic is used to sway the audience into advocating for equal rights. Furthermore, Cooper racks up more attention by speaking on behalf of all people because if women achieve their rightful justice, universal equality will be ensured for “not the white woman's, nor the black woman's, nor the red woman's, but the cause of every man and woman who has writhed silently under a mighty wrong” (Cooper). This arouses the emotions in the audience because they are swayed by Cooper’s statement. If she is willing to fight for the rights of all factions, it would be fair that she earns respect and honor for her efforts. This is different from Truth’s appeal to pathos because Truth made her audience feel empathetic while Cooper encourage her audience to become supportive and unbiased. Cooper’s last effort is aimed towards confronting the flaws of inequality to prove her reliability. By using a real life example, Cooper’s argument becomes more reliable. To argue against injustice, she compares it to a chain and “If one link of the chain is broken, the chain is broken” (Cooper). This means that if all humans are not granted equality, society is disconnected and
Watson begins her speech by describing the HeForShe campaign. She states, “...We want to try and galvanize as many men and boys as possible to be advocates for gender
During the launch of the movement, Emma Watson gave the speech to announce the intentions of HeForShe to the world. “This is the first campaign of its kind at the UN: we want to try to galvanize as many men and boys as possible to be advocates for gender equality. And we don’t just want to talk about it, but make sure it is tangible” (Retrieved from: http://www.unwomen.org/en/news/stories/2014/9/emma-watson-gender-equality-is-your-issue-too). This quote will come into play further in the review in connection with primary
Renowned British actress and activist for the feminist movement, Emma Watson, in her speech to the United Nations, “HeForShe,” argues that gender discrimination is a plague to human civilization. Watson’s purpose is to sway the audience that gender inequality has to come to an end, with the support of men and women as advocates for egalitarianism. Additionally, she enlightens the audience that the problem originated from political affairs, the economy, and social disparity. Watson creates a compassionate tone in order to convey men, specifically those who negatively perceived feminism or did not think that feminist issues affected them. Nevertheless, Watson’s speech is ineffectively persuasive due to the poor description she formulated