Social context of the Speech: Before her speech in 1873, Susan B Anthony was arrested and fined $100 after voting illegally in the 1872 federal election. She saw this injustice and embarked on a speaking tour in support of female voting rights. She spoke in many cities in New York. The 19th addition to the US Constitution allowed women the right to vote in 1920. She never paid the fine. “I shall never pay a dollar of your unjust penalty” - Anthony’s trial. 1 Analysis The use of repetition in Susan B Anthony’s speech is minimal but effective. When she says “…an oligarchy of wealth, where the rich govern the poor. An oligarchy of learning, where the educated govern the ignorant, or even an oligarchy of race…” she is trying to say that they are …show more content…
living in a world where there are more powers vested in men other than women. To get this message across that women aren’t as entrusted as men, she repeats the statement of oligarchy over and over again and gives many examples about how and what men have got an upper hand on. This repetition she uses creates an emphasize on everything women don’t have a say in, their “power is derived from the consent of the governed” and everything women are disadvantaged in, e.g. “but this oligarchy of sex, which makes father, brothers, husband, sons, the oligarchs over the mother and sisters, the wife and daughters, of every household - which ordains all men sovereigns, all women subjects,”. One technique Anthony uses to begin her speech is inclusive language. This means she engages her audience by addressing who they are to her, to make them feel part and included in her stance. An example is at the beginning, the first thing she says is to get them to listen and get them on her side, “Friends and fellow citizens…” This as a beginning line is a great introduction to grab the audience’s attention. Another Key technique Susan B Anthony shows in her speech is emotive language, when she draws out her anger and passion for the cause to the audience. Throughout her speech it is seen that she is very opinionated when it comes to women’s rights so when she says things like “it is a downright mockery to talk to women of their enjoyment of the blessings of liberty…” it shows her putting her foot down about something she feels passionate about. Although Anthony doesn’t have a certain rhythm nor poetic devises to follow in her speech, it doesn’t mean she didn’t have stages to follow in order to let the speech have a strong flow to it. She had to say the right things at the right time and in the right order to accomplish a strong and expressive speech. She addresses the audience in the beginning the states that she and other women have rights, then to back herself up she uses the united States of America Constitution as evidence. Then continues to question the right to vote is sexualized and then asking the question if women are even persons at all. This is a good structured order in which Anthony followed. Susan’s words “…And I hardly believe any of our opponents will have the hardihood to say they are not…” is the only time in the speech where she uses a modal verb.
Keeping in mind that this is only the beginning part of her speech, meaning she was only stating facts and asking rhetorical questions to establish with. Although if it looks at empowering words and sentences then she definitely uses them often and well, such as “It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union” List making is when someone is trying to persuade by ‘piling up’ detail. Susan B Anthony does this, but not to fill in time or just for the sake of facts and information, but to show her level of understanding and knowledge she has on women’s rights and civil right. When Anthony asks the rhetorical question “Are women persons?” it is obvious that women are persons but it is a rhetorical question because she is trying to show everyone that the constitution is basically saying that everyone is equal, men and women. This is where she gets the audience to think deeply about who are the people who get to make the decisions in the world and who are there to abide by it and tolerate it. Allusion is a tactical and really smart way to allow the audience to get on the speakers side. Susan B Anthony is really smart in the beginning when she uses the constitution to back her up. This showed her audience that had evidence from a higher authority.
Evaluation Anthony’s understanding of her speech was women’s rights and it is shown that she knows a lot about it to have an effective speech. With her knowledge and passion she was able to gauge her audience’s emotions through the correct use of techniques and language. Susan’s legacy began of March 13, 1906, when she died, it was 14 years before the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution became a law which gave women the right to vote unfortunately she never got to experience of placing her ballot paper in and knowing that she was contributing to society. In 1979 and 1980, the U.S. government minted for circulation $1 coins bearing Anthony's picture. Anthony was the first woman to be pictured on a United States coin in general circulation. Of course this shows how effective her speech was, it just took a while for women’s right to vote to become a law.
Not only does repetition play a major role in Chisholm’s speech, but her dispersement of anaphoras indeed calls attention to her main point. Anaphoras allow her to emphasize her frustration and put forth the notion of the severity of discrimination and differences men and women had to endure during that time. An example of this is right in the beginning of her speech where she states: “It provides a legal basis for attack on the most subtle, most pervasive, and most institutionalized form of prejudice that exists,” where she explains how the Constitution was based on the equality of the American people, including between men and women. This quotation fulfills her point by expressing these prejudices in the superlative form. Because she placed
In Martin Luther King Jr. “I Have a Dream” speech; he used a bunch of repetition such as a hundred years later; I have a dream; we must; and let freedom ring. When doing this it makes the reader understand that the author is trying to get his point across. He used
The road to women's rights was long and hard, but many women helped push the right to vote, the one that was at the front of that group was Susan B. Anthony. She learned how to read and write at the age of three. She was put in a home school setting at the age of six because her other teacher refused to teach her long division. Since the school was run by strong willed women, Anthony received a new image of womanhood by being taught not only long division and grammar, but also manners and self worth.”
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.
Anthony’s Speech ethos, pathos and logos are found in her speech. During the beginning of her speech it states “ I not only committed no crime, but, instead, simply exercised my citizen’s rights, guaranteed to me and all United States citizens by the National Constitution, beyond the power of any state deny”(paragraph 2). This quote is using pathos, Susan B. Anthony is talking to the audience and saying that she was deprived of her rights by trying to vote. She wants the audience to know that it was wrong for her to be arrested for trying to exercise her citizen rights and that she will prove and fight to get her rights.
Many of Anthony´s friends saw her as an elitist and formed the American Woman Suffrage Association. An elitist is relating to or supporting the view that a society or system should be led by an elite. It was lead by Lucy Stone (American Eras). Once the Fourteenth Amendment was passed, Anthony was mad. The Amendment said, “Anyone born in the United States they were citizens and that no legal privileges could deny any citizen.” Because of this Anthony and fifteen other women registered to vote illegally at Rochester, New York, on November 1, 1872. Four days later they went to vote. Anthony and the other women were arrested. Anthony went to court on June 17, 1873. She was the only one that had to go to court. She was fined one hundred dollars. She never paid the fine but there were no further actions taken. In 1890, the National Woman Suffrage Association grouped with American Woman Suffrage Association. They then were called National American Woman Suffrage Association. Anthony became the president from 1892 to 1900
Susan B. Anthony believed that women should have the same rights as men. She fought for this right in many different ways, but she is most famous for showing civil disobedience by voting illegally. Unfortunately, Anthony fought all her life for women’s rights, but her dreams were not fulfilled until 14 years after she died (“Susan” Bio). Anthony attended a women’s rights convention before she started campaigning for women’s rights (“Susan” Encyclopedia par. 2). The adage of the adage.
“Speech after Being Convicted of Voting in the 1872 Presidential Election”, she discusses women's suffrage and converses over the fact that she had a right to vote and did not violate the 14th Amendment of the Constitution. Anthony’s purpose in writing the speech was to persuade the audience that she did not commit a crime in order to show that women deserve equality. Expressions of fierce diction that Anthony manipulates throughout the text are “whole people”, “union”, and “posterity” (Anthony). She exercises concise and strong diction, which supports her ethos, unites her audience, and shows that she is educated just as well as any man. If she is well educated just like the men in her time, then why do women not have the right to vote and not have equality?
Anthony’s speech as a whole you get her message of overwhelming desire to claim that the entirety of The United States built the perfect union in which she so adamantly calls upon in the subject of Women’s Suffrage. Anthony insists that white male Americans weren’t the only persons to build the country she lives in, but women as well. She acknowledges the fact that the oligarchy of race in America is among the downfalls of the United States, but she argues that it is the oligarchy of men over women that truly is the greatest disgrace in American Society. This attitude toward race and sex limits the intersectionality it has between the two classifications by saying that identities are ranked. Anthony opposes the argument laid out by black feminists and Terborg-Penn’s article that claim identities are equally important and cannot be
Anthony chose to participate in civil disobedience to protest for women’s rights. In 1851, Anthony attended an anti-slavery conference, where she met Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Anthony was inspired to fight for women 's rights while she fought against the use of alcohol (“Susan” Bio). Susan B. Anthony was one of the strongest advocates of women’s rights, and is a representative figure of politically oriented types of feminist politics (Halsall). Anthony was denied a chance to speak at a temperance movement conference because of her being a women, she then decided that no one would ever take a woman seriously unless they had a right to vote. In 1852, Anthony and Stanton established the Women’s New York State Temperance Society. Anthony traveled to many places to campaign on women’s behalf (“Susan” Bio). In 1872, Anthony was arrested for casting an illegal vote in the presidential election. She was fined $100 but refused to pay (Halsall). A warrant went out for Anthony after a poll watcher filed a complaint. Anthony was charged for voting in a congressional election “without having a lawful right to vote and in violation of a section 19 of an Act of Congress.” At the hearing on November 29th, Anthony was questioned by her lawyer and was able to tell why she believed she had the right to vote, as authorized by the 14th amendment; therefore, she was not guilty of willingly and knowingly casting an illegal vote (Dismore). Susan B. Anthony became a courageous leader in the
Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906) is considered one of the most influential figure in the women’s suffragist of her generation and has become an icon of the woman’s suffrage movement. Anthony is known to travel the country to give speeches, circulate petitions, and organize local women’s rights organization. Anthony was born in Adams, Massachusetts. After the Anthony family moved to Rochester, New York in 1845, they became active in the antislavery movement gaining more supporters across the country. In 1848 Susan B. Anthony was working as a teacher in Canajoharie, New York and became involved with the teacher’s union when she discovered that male teachers were paid more than female teachers a month. Her parents and sister Marry attended the 1848 Rochester Woman’s Rights Convention held August 2Anthony’s experience with the teacher’s union, antislavery reforms, and Quaker upbringing, established ground for a career in women’s rights reform to grow.
This discrimination towards this sex was reinforced by the idea that women was made for man. Not only was this idea prevalent within society but it furthermore is resonated through the laws and documents the government put in place. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony fought to establish equality between both sexes within the nation. This is illustrated within the Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions at Seneca Falls when these women stated, “The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman, having in direct object he establishment of an absolute tyranny over her.” This quote expresses the past of women rights and how from the beginning of time women have been seen as inferior to man. This furthermore resonated to express the idea that women were not only inferior but also a material object in a man’s life. Stanton and Anthony put a large emphasis into this ideal, making it their driving force into establishing women’s rights in America.
The goal of Hillary’s speech is to persuade her audience that her ideas are valid, by using ethos, pathos, and logos. Hillary is the First Lady and Senator, she shows credibility as an influential activist for woman rights. “Over the past 25 years, I have worked persistently on issues relating to women, children, and families. Over the past two and a half years, I’ve had the opportunity to learn more about the challenges facing women in my country and around the world” (Clinton 2).
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
The central idea of, “Woman's Right to Suffrage,” By Susan B. Anthony is to persuade you to believe that women should be able vote and hold all the rights of men, and to make you go out and to do something about it. “Woman’s Right to Suffrage,” by Susan B. Anthony is the most compelling because it uses an amazing tone, detail, and good sources that persuades the reader to do something.