Hillary Clinton gave a speech to announce her presidential campaign on June 13, 2015. She gave her speech in New York City at Franklin Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms Park, a location that connected directly with her speech. The audience consisted of Clinton’s followers, Democrats, and others who were interested in Clinton and the launching of her campaign. Clinton begins her speech thanking the audience and expressing how happy she is to be there, adding in some of her credentials as a politician. In the body of her speech, Clinton talks about how she plans to save the lower and middle class. She discusses America’s past and present and how learning from those two periods of time can shape America into a better future. Many times she talks about …show more content…
She addresses key issues that are near to many people’s hearts, such as LGBT discrimination, women’s pay, student loan debt, and global warming, to name just a few, to make people feel like she wants to win that fight for them. She even uses humour a few times throughout the speech, the most notable of which is when she refers to the song “Yesterday” by the Beatles, which just about every one is familiar with. She also ties the humour in with a jab at the Republicans, calling them a “choir” that is stuck in the past. Clinton also frequently uses repetitive literary devices such as anaphora and epistrophe. Though anaphora is used many times throughout the speech, one example is, “I believe that success isn’t measured by how much the wealthiest Americans have, but by how many children climb out of poverty… How many start ups and small businesses open and thrive… How many young people go to college without drowning in debt… How many people find a good job… How many families get ahead and stay ahead.” Through this tactic, certain parts of Clinton’s speech will stick in people’s heads. Clinton also uses storytelling to arouse emotion in her audience. Her most frequent storytelling topic is her mother, who “…taught [Clinton] that everybody needs a chance and a champion.” Her mother struggled as a child and a young adult, and Clinton expands upon that to evoke sympathy from the audience. Yet, Clinton …show more content…
In the introduction, she refers to the fact that they are in New York where she served as Senator, across the water from the United Nations headquarters were she served as a representative, and in a park dedicated to Franklin Roosevelt, a President who is well-liked among most Americans. She also ends her introduction with saying, “[To be here] in a place… with absolutely no ceilings,” a phrase that aroused the audience into cheering because of its limitless implication. Later in the speech, Clinton refers to the new World Trade Center, which can be seen from the park, and ties that into a statement saturated with ethos where she talks about how she helped New York recover from 9/11.
I am not involved in politics at all so I did not have much of an opinion of Hillary Clinton before watching this speech. That being said, I think that this speech was very well done. Though it was obviously put together and rehearsed beforehand, the delivery was well executed. I felt myself reacting to the pathos and ethos that Clinton added all throughout her speech and believing what she said. I think that the “poetic” lines and literary devices she used, combined with her charismatic delivery, made her speech
Bill Clinton’s main purpose was to appeal to his audience in a way that would make them think the way he thinks. Using the techniques he used the speech was successful and really caught people’s attention. His speech was mainly used to fill people in about the way our society is even after so many events that have ended tragically. What Clinton did was appeal to his audience emotionally, appeal to their character, appeal to their logic and finally he used humor and reason to give his speech an interesting vibe.
In response to his alleged affair with Ms. Monica Lewinsky, who at the time was an intern at the White House, President Clinton took to a national broadcast to clear his name. In his testimony, Clinton begins with a formal and slightly apologetic tone, and then subtly shifts the blame from his actions to the nosiness of the American public, victimizing himself. There were four different tone shifts in this particular speech, and he uses this to his advantage in turning the spotlight away from his private life, and to national issues. In his address, President Clinton uses a wide variety of rhetorical devices to convince his audience, the American people, that his stance on the matter is the most valid, and to reestablish his credibility,
To summarize this analysis, Hillary Clinton shows us how as we unite, the stronger our bond is. She uses clever ways to show this action. Though she did not win this presidential election, she is still loved by many. She helped herself because of the way she wrote and persuaded people to join her. Using rhetorical appeals
The best way to examine this speech is through a speech-act methodology. Speaker-setting and speaker-audience relationships are key in the analysis of this situation. Before answering the proposed research question we can ask another important question. Why did former President Bill Clinton choose to give this address? According to the Hart text several things must be true. 1. The speaker feels something is wrong. After several rounds of questioning the American public was growing ti...
She uses strong words to evolve her speech. “We must respect the choices that each woman makes for herself”,” Every women deserves”. When she uses these words(respect and deserves) the message is clear. Clinton is fighting for women rights, she takes this topic in a serious way. It is a commitment she has and wants everyone to listen.
The connection between these three elements are very strong, they are used right after each one gave out such as ethos go after logos. Not only used logos, ethos, parallelism but Hillary Clinton also used cause and effect and pathos tools to make the speech more influence. She made her points clear that women also are important as men do, sometimes they are even greater. If women are treated well, they could change the whole world. This is the message that I found in this speech. From “Woman’s right are Human’s Right” speech, I learned that in order to give a good speech, I need to combine many literary techniques to make it more fluent. Importantly, where to apply the right tool to amplify the effect of the
Before stepping into the critical analysis of the speech, it is important to understand the historical setting from which the speech arose. The context can be briefly summarized as the following. In 1995 Clinton had a sexual relationship with one of his White House interns by the name of Monica Lewinsky. On January 17, 1998, a sexual misconduct lawsuit against him was filed. Clinton then quickly delivered a forceful public statement that he did not have a sexual relationship with the woman. However, unknown to President Clinton, Linda Tripp, one of Lewinsky’s associates, had recorded several conversations of Lewinsky describing her affair with the President. In the seven months afterwards, Kenneth W. Starr, the StarWhitewater independent counsel, had began collecting evidence of the affair and carrying out investigation about Clinton’s obstruction of justice. Evidence of Clinton lying under oath would be grounds for impeachment. On August 17, 1998, Clinton decided to a...
Clinton repeats the words “If women” followed by “will” (Clinton), this gives the audience a reason to accept her propositions. Good outcomes come with good actions. When she concluded her speech, Hillary kept using the repetition of the words dignity, respect, family and children. Clinton’s credibility is not questioned when she says she has been working in the case, “Over the past 25 years, I have worked persistently on issues relating to women, children, and families” (Clinton) this is the way she knows about women and their necessities, “I’ve had the opportunity to learn more about the challenges facing women in my country and around the world” (Clinton).Her goal is definite, “To strengthen families and societies by empowering women to take greater control over their own destinies”( Clinton). This change will not only affect women, but everyone who surrounds them.
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).
During her early life, Hillary Clinton learned that a huge problem across the globe was gender inequality. Women and men were not equal. Men were making more money than women for the same jobs. She believed she could change this. On September 5, 1995 Hillary Clinton gave a speech at the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women. Clinton uses powerful rhetoric in order to create an air of sympathy for women among her audience. She is hoping to make the world become more aware of the inequalities women face daily while also making them feel ashamed for their previous actions of discriminating women, which would cause them to change their ways. She uses her speech “Women’s Rights Are Human Rights” to create awareness of the discrimination
On June 11, 2004, the former prime minister of Great Britain, Margaret Thatcher delivered an eulogy in honor of former president Ronald Reagan, declaring Reagan a great man and president. Thatcher develops her ideas by analyzing all he has done using parallelism, repetition, and ethos. Using Reagan’s accomplishments and personal experiences, she amplifies how great of a man he was in order to make the nation comprehend what Reagan did. Thatcher opens her eulogy with “We have lost a great president,” indicating that the speech she gives in an apologetic and heartfelt tone is not only to the American people, but to everyone else. The first rhetorical device she uses is parallelism when noting Reagan’s accomplishments.
She makes sure they understand why and for what reason she is there, speaking in front of them. In the fourth paragraph, she starts talking about journalism and what it's about. She explains what it is and how it touches public interest. This is important in her speech because the audience needed a little reminder what what it should be. She goes on to say how they have put lies in their writings. As commonly known, lies in the public eye is one of the worst things to do. Take Hillary Clinton for example. Many people believe she was not elected president because she lied and hid things from others; she is known for her act of deleting emails. People value the honesty Trump has more than the lies Clinton
She was able to deliver such an exceptional speech because of her knowledge and credibility on the topic. Clinton is a woman and frequently has to deal with her own right to be treated as equal to men. Politics is viewed as a man 's job, viewing women as though they cannot do as good of a job as men. Clinton has also traveled the women talking to many women about the struggles they encounter, “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 own country and around the world” (Clinton). The Women’s rights battle is an important topic for Clinton. She was able to see, first hand, mothers fighting for healthcare, education, food, and safer housing and town for themselves and their children. By adding her own experience and knowledge on top of the heartbreaking facts and struggles of women makes this speech even more
He begins the speech using pathos, expecting the audience will associate with him through their emotions. He says, “It is important to me that everybody who has been hurt know the sorrow I feel is genuine” trying to not only apologize to the people he has upset, but to prove to the nation that he was still capable of being a better president and a good religious man. In other words he was trying to gain sympathy from his audience, President Clinton wanted his followers to believe that every human does make mistake, but they should be given another chance. His attempt was not successful because he was criticized even after that speech.Clinton then appeals to the audience’s ears when stating, “I am very grateful for the many, many people- clergy and ordinary citizens alike- who have written me with wise counsel” here he develops the idea of pathos and allows the audience to distinguish themselves and feel a connection with him through his words. He then touches his audience’s hearts by saying, “If my repentance is genuine and sustain and if I can maintain both a broken spirit and a strong heart, then good can come out of this...” trying to find good in the decisions he has made and hurt his family as well as his own
Bill Clinton’s main audience he intended the speech to be was for his family and friends. This included Hillary Clinton, his daughter, friends and Monica Lewinsky. Clinton said in his speech, “And if my