After carefully evaluating the speech spoken by Adrienne Rich, it was apparent that she argued for women to stand up and take control of their education instead of just tolerating it. She presents this speech to an audience of women at a women’s only institution in 1977, resulting in her speech mainly focusing on women who were academically discriminated to their belief. During her speech she desires her audience to be assertive and to strive for self-respect to help women universally, which could benefit the many generations to come. While presenting her argument, she persuades the audiences with different methods such as making them feel sympathy towards the hardships these women are going through, using consistent definitions of words in which can grab the crowds attention and to change their position on the argument, and using personal experiences to help the audience relate to her with means of honesty.
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Even though this might have seen as if she wandered off of her main argument because this speech was delivered at a women’s only institution, she chose to include this section to relate to everyone. She says, Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own brains and instincts; hence, grappling with hard work. It means that you do not treat your body as a commodity with which to purchase superficial intimacy or economic security; for our bodies to be treated as objects, our minds are in mortal danger.” (3). Appeal to Flattery was present during this statement which grasped the audiences attention to make them feel superior and to feel as if they can control their choices in life. But shortly after this portion of her speech, she begins to inform women again and smoothly relates this to what women can do to overcome that
Typically, a speech …show more content…
Even though this might have seen as if she wandered off of her main argument because this speech was delivered at a women’s only institution, she chose to include this section to relate to everyone. She says, Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own brains and instincts; hence, grappling with hard work. It means that you do not treat your body as a commodity with which to purchase superficial intimacy or economic security; for our bodies to be treated as objects, our minds are in mortal danger.” (3). Appeal to Flattery was present during this statement which grasped the audiences attention to make them feel superior and to feel as if they can control their choices in life. But shortly after this portion of her speech, she begins to inform women again and smoothly relates this to what women can do to overcome that