Stanton's Speech Rhetorical Analysis

The first thing Stanton does that makes this an effective speech is pathos. Stanton uses this appeal by telling different stories to evoke the women of that times emotion. She tells of how women are treated in different places. She says:
From the Arabian Kerek whose wife is obliged to steal from her Husband to supply the necessities of life,-from the Mahometan who forbids pigs dogs women and other impure animals to enter a mosque, and does not allow a fool, madman or women to proclaim the hour of prayer,- form the German who complacently smokes his meerschaum while his wife, yoked with the ox draws the plough through its furrow,-from the delectable gentleman who thinks an inferior style of conversation adapted to women-to the legislator who considers her incapable of saying what laws shall govern her, is this same feeling manifested (Stanton).
Next she talks about how these countries in the eastern part of the world women are treated just like slaves. Slavery was something that women in this time could relate to. Stanton speech was given almost twenty years before slavery ended. When she says, “she is a mere slave bought and sold at pleasure,” the women at the convention could relate to the women in these eastern countries better. I imagine these women, after the slavery allusion, understood how bad women were …show more content…
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