In 1995, at the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women, Hillary Rodham Clinton presented a presently well recognized speech targeting every person on the planet, impartial to gender, age, or ethnicity. In her speech, Clinton encourages people all around the world to build a common ground between males and females in the hope of moving past the gender bias present all around the world. Over the course of her speech, Clinton effectively creates emotional buildup, emphasizes her main ideas, as well as generates favorable emotions within her audience by using rhetoric. Through the use of various rhetorical devices such as asyndeton or polysyndeton, repetition or anaphora, as well as the use of the Aristotelian appeal pathos, Hillary Rodham …show more content…
Clinton highlights women’s potential, a potential that is slowly becoming more prevalent in our society when women are granted basic necessities by repeating “if women are...their families will flourish” (1). Additionally, Hillary uses anaphora when she identifies all the injustice women face by repeating “it is a violation of human rights when women and girls...” (4). By using repetition and anaphora, her audience has a familiarity with the phrase being repeated and as a result anticipates her next words. Ultimately, her audience is able to retain the information more effectively after listening so closely. This persuasive strategy distinguishes important messages that Clinton is trying to convey to her audience from the rest of her speech, while at the same time clears up any confusion the audience may …show more content…
By provoking these feelings in her audience, Clinton is able to persuade her audience that egalitarianism between genders must be established since both genders are equal. When Clinton states that women around the world are “watching their children succumb to malnutrition caused by poverty and economic deprivation” (2) or are “being denied the right to go to school by their own brothers and fathers” (2) she demonstrates the inequality between the two genders caused by an unconscious gender bias created by “patterns of categorization” (Huffington) that present women in a more fragile and incompetent manner. By pointing out that “women and [their] children make up a large majority of the world’s refugees” (3), the audience is compelled to ask “women are different then men, but why are they treated differently?” The pathos in her speech, encourages each member of the audience to reflect upon his or her daily treatment of women. Is it biased or not? Clinton’s use of pathos evokes an emotional connection between the opinions and thoughts of the speaker and the audience. Ideally, it is this connection that motivates the audience to make an effort to act on Hillary’s words and treat women as equals when compared to
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
As reported by the White House, women, on average, earn 77 cents for every dollar earned by a man. Writer and activist, Rebecca Solnit addresses such issues of gender inequality, as well as violence against women, in her 2014 essay, “The Longest War.” Solnit’s purpose is to shed a light onto the inequitable and detrimental treatment of women and to emphasize the need for change. She utilizes a compelling, matter-of-fact tone to optimize the effect her words will have on her readers, both male and female. “The Longest War” by Rebecca Solnit employs the rhetorical strategies of substance and delivery to highlight gender issues worldwide, evoke the audience’s rational and emotional sides, and inspire people to act toward equality.
Have you ever wondered how influential people write great speeches that grab people's attention? They use a literary device called, rhetorical appeals. As supported in Hillary Clinton’s November 03, 2016 speech, uniting the American Public, will lead to an advantageous country. In her speech for the Democratic National Convention it states that, as elected for president, she will get everyone saying “We” instead of “I”. To reach out to the American Citizens and grab their attention, Clinton uses many rhetorical devices as she speaks. Using Logos, Pathos, and Ethos, the people of America jump on board with Clinton's ideas.
Hillary Rodham Clinton is a well-recognized woman in the United States. Her great contribution as secretary of State impact people’s lives. One of many remarkable speeches Hillary gave was the “The women rights speech”, in the 4th World Conference on Women Plenary Session where she uses strong words and emotions to appeal the audience. Even though the speech talks about women rights, she wants everyone, including men and children to listen and take action. Her use of ethos, logos and pathos throughout the speech made the audience believe in her words.
Gender dictates various components of American life: political quarrels, typical company employee hierarchies, social norms, the list continues. This year’s presidential election proves this statement to be true; as Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump bump heads against notions of foreign policy and tax reform, American voters have divided themselves into a category of either for or against women’s equality. Trump’s recent rape allegations has portrayed him as sexist, allowing Clinton to make arguments against him and advocate for women’s rights. Besides politics, gender guides child development, teaching children what “roles” both men and women must play in order to be deemed acceptable. This is why the term “CEO”
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.
Jarratt, Susan C. “Rhetoric and Feminism: Together Again.” College English. Vol. 62. 3rd ed. National Council of Teachers of English, 2000. 390-393. Jstor. Web.
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.
Rhetoric may refer to the practice of argumentation that aims to influence or modify the perspectives of the target audience (Herrick, 2005, p. 3). Critically analysing the rhetoric context of an article could help us better apprehend the writer’s rhetoric moves as analytical readers, and attain useful techniques to improve as proficient writers. This essay will be evaluating and comparing the following sentences, which both successfully delivered powerful messages within the gender equality arena yet vary in terms of their rhetorical situation, rhetorical appeals, tone, structure and style.
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
Other voters will appreciate her tactic, and find her appealing because they may interpret that she truly was motivated intrinsically due to the fact that she had empathy to the cause of women, since she herself is a woman, and that she could expand that empathy for other minorities. In addition, Clinton took a stand by stating that federal agents and legislation shouldn’t decide for pregnant women in choosing to carry or not to carry their unborn children to term. Clinton made this point because she stated that the impact of the decision to abort a child or to have him or her is a major choice that can have long-lasting consequences after the decision. Her stance seemed entirely intrinsically motivated since she held the same stance in foreign countries, in which her voice had no far-reaching impact, and yet she formed her decision based on a moral compass and on her observations. Voters will find her protective stance towards women appealing due to the fact that approximately half of the voters are women who do not want to see their rights abridged. Clinton’s supporters may, therefore, say that she is solely motivated due to her values since she is a woman who could
People started to open their ears and their hearts. Her overall purpose is to show that there is a gap between men and women that cannot be overlooked and sidestepped for any longer. Women don't only deserve the right to vote, but they deserve the same rights as men. Applying logos, juxtaposition, and strong use of diction to her speech, she connects to her audience and reveals to them the reasons why what she is saying is crucial to the country.
...action with others… especially men. This supplies final substantiation of the authors' argument, that women continue to be oppressed by their male-dominated societies. It is a bold undertaking for women to ally and promote a world movement to abandon sexist traditions. Although I have never lived in a third world or non-Westernized country, I have studied the conditions women suffer as "inferior" to men. In National Geographic and various courses I have taken, these terrible conditions are depicted in full color. Gender inequality is a terrible trait of our global society, and unfortunately, a trait that might not be ready to change. In America we see gender bias towards women in voters' unwillingness to elect more females into high office, and while this is not nearly as severe as the rest of the world, it indicates the lingering practice of gender inequality.
Renowned British actress and activist for the feminist movement, Emma Watson, in her speech to the United Nations, “HeForShe,” argues that gender discrimination is a plague to human civilization. Watson’s purpose is to sway the audience that gender inequality has to come to an end, with the support of men and women as advocates for egalitarianism. Additionally, she enlightens the audience that the problem originated from political affairs, the economy, and social disparity. Watson creates a compassionate tone in order to convey men, specifically those who negatively perceived feminism or did not think that feminist issues affected them. Nevertheless, Watson’s speech is ineffectively persuasive due to the poor description she formulated