Rhetorical Analysis Of Hillary Clinton

Imagine growing up in a country where you have lost your basic human rights and are subjected to violence everywhere you go. Now imagine growing up in a household like that. One would think that someone growing up in that environment would be very critical of human rights, correct? Hillary Clinton, a U.S. politician, is very worried about the state of living most women are dealing with around the world. As a young woman, Clinton has spoken out about the state of women’s rights in their households; furthermore, after meeting with women all around the world, she has become even more critical about the safety of women in their own households. During the United Nations Fourth World Conference in Beijing, Clinton spoke out for women’s rights for

women all around the world and presented the audience to use their voice for those who have had theirs taken from them. Through the use of pathos, Clinton shows the audience the struggles and abuses women are dealing with around the world. Clinton’s effective rhetoric empowered men, women, and children through her critical pathos, informing logos, and logical repetition.
To appeal to her audience, Clinton uses critical pathos to provide a very emotional evoking speech.

She claims that families will flourish if “women are free from violence” and when families flourish, “communities and nations do as well” (“American Rhetoric: Women’s Rights are Human Rights”). By using pathos, this evokes a feeling of pity from the audience; furthermore, Clinton adds that women are having their human rights violated everyday just for being women. For example, “babies are suffocated” just for being girls and women are “set on fire and burned to death” because of small wedding dowries (“American Rhetoric: Women’s Rights are Human Rights”). Clinton wants women around this world to give the voices back to those who have been forced silent in fear. Her encouraging words add to her purpose and show the world the abuses that women go through on a daily basis. Her heart-wrenching pathos is ideal, but her persistent rhetoric doesn’t stop

there.
To inform her audience, Clinton uses logos to provide an informing appeal for the audience.

Clinton states that “woman and children” make up a majority of the world’s refugees, resulting in women becoming even more vulnerable from being excluded (“American Rhetoric: Women’s Rights are Human Rights”). By using logos, Clinton shows the audience the facts/statistics about women hardships; for instance, the leading cause of death worldwide among “women ages 14 to 44 is the violence” they are subjected to everyday by their very own relatives (“American Rhetoric: Women’s Rights are Human Rights”). For example, “individual women are raped in their own communities” and thousands are used as a prize of war (“American Rhetoric: Women’s Rights are Human Rights”). Clinton wants to show people, around the world, the truth about how women are having their human rights taken everyday. Her informing words add to her purpose and help give women a chance to get their freedom back. Her logos is appealing to the audience, but her effective rhetoric doesn’t stop

there.
To validate her claims, Clinton uses a logical appeal to help the audience understand. Clinton uses repetition to enforce her ideas to the audience. Clinton repeats the word “women”, such as “ women who are working all night as nurses, multiple times throughout her speech to show that women are the ones going through hardships and abuses (“American Rhetoric: Women’s Rights are Human Rights”). By using repetition, Clinton shows the audience how she is informing them while enforcing her words to them; in fact, Clinton uses repetition of “violation of human rights” to show what women go through everyday (“American Rhetoric: Women’s Rights are Human Rights”). For example, Clinton states that it is a “violation of human rights” when women are denied the ability to plan out their families, such as having abortions against their will (“American Rhetoric: Women’s Rights are Human Rights”). Clinton wants to show everyone, including governments, how women are mistreated by using repetition ("Hillary Clinton on Women's Rights and Opportunity."). Her logical repetition adds to her purpose and helps the audience understand the hardships women go through around the world. Clinton’s repetition is informing, but her rhetoric countinues throughout the speech.
In Clinton’s speech, she uses effective rhetoric, such as pathos, logos, and repetition, to appeal to her audience. Clinton shows the audience the abuses women deal with on a daily basis and help the audience understand how they have had their basic human rights stolen from them. She uses her critical pathos to show how women are abused daily, such as being raped by their own family; informing logos to show the impact these women have on the world; and logical repetition to enforce her words on the audience. Clinton uses this rhetoric to create a powerful speech and inspire her audience to make a difference in the world where women are mistreated because of their gender; in fact, she told the audience “to give voice” to those who have had theirs taken in fear. She helps the audience give those women their voices back and help them stand up for what they believe in, so they aren’t forced to keep quiet in fear of being punished for their views.