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…
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.
Anthony’s speech is more effective because she has evidence to show that they are withdrawing their rights as citizens for no reason. One example is that the Constitution says that citizens of the United states have the right to vote. In the Constitution, the only person discarded from this right is people that committed a criminal offense or bribery. The only part in the Constitution that says females can’t vote is when they mention men over the age of twenty-one can vote. Another reference is when Ellen Van Valkenburg stopped paying taxes because there were no feminine pronouns. She did this because of the justification of no taxation without
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 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.”
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.
The main idea of the 4th paragraph is that women should have the right to vote, and not having this right is a crime by the country on to the people. This is proven with her use of allusion and repetition. As is said by Anthony, on page 1, “It is downright mockery... while they are denied the only right of securing a place in
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.
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.
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
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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
Stanton argues many valid points with significant impact. Throughout her speech, she uses many examples of logical appeals. She states, “The question is now: how shall we get possession of what rightfully belongs to us?” In this quote, Stanton is agitating the question of when women are going to get not only the rights they deserve, but also the equality they demand. She is disgracing the rules that they live under, and questioning when things will be set right. She also argues, “All white men in this country have the same rights, however they may differ in mind, body, or estate.” All white men in America at this time had freedom no matter what they owned or what their background. They could be rich, wealthy businessmen or poor country farmers, and as much as they differed in society standards, they all shared one common thing: their rights. She is making an emotional appeal to the women of the country, and exposing the anger of the unfair situation the women are stuck in. One of the key phrases she repeats is, “The right is ours.” Stanton repeats this short, yet powerful, phrase in order to get her message through. She believes and fights that all free women should be just as equal as all free men. The use of repeating this phrase helps others understand how dearly ...
“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?