Rhetorical Analysis Of Women's Rights By Hillary Clinton

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.

The first element that Hillary Clinton used in this speech

Ethos is an appeal to incredibility or character. Hillary Clinton used ethos after she used logos in order to gain the audience’s trust with her 25 years of experience on issues relates to women, children, family. In order to prove it, she said “I have met new mother in Indonesia,... I have met women in South Africa who helped lead the struggle to end apartheid and are now helping to build a new democracy.” By mentioning the women who she has helped, she intentionally proved that she have a lot of experience to make the audience as well as women who are living China to believe that she can help them. Importantly, she has the ability to guide them in this fight. She was also building up their courage when she said: “As an American I want to speak up for those women in my own country.” This quote indicated that American also involved in this war. Therefore, American will help them. In my opinion, Hillary Clinton has successfully used this element in an effective and influence way to convince the audience. Moreover, she helped them to overcome their

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