Margaret Atwood's Feminism Speech Spotty Handed Villianesses

In basic terms, an author of an argument or a literary piece can appeal to the audience via a number of ways i.e. through appeal to pathos, ethos or logos. In this text, I analyze Emmeline Pankhurst's speech (edited version). In so doing, I consider the author's utilization of the appeals pathos, ethos and logos.

“Speaking to you today, I speak for them, just as each of us speaks for women around the world who are denied the chance to go to school, or see a doctor, or own property, or have a say about the direction of their lives, simply because they are women”(Clinton 1). These words spoken by Hillary Rodham Clinton in her speech, “Women’s Rights are Human Rights,” on September 5, 1995. Hilary pressured the Chinese government and the world to address the problems women face everyday go unresolved because they are ignored. Her speech is one that is still relevant today and has affected the world by inspiring other countries to proclaim their opinions on women's rights. Hillary uses many cases of rhetorical devices that include, parallelism, ethos, pathos,

For my ISP I have chosen to cover the topic of men and women being reduced to political objects or instruments by the misuse of power. From the first chapter of The Handmaid’s Tale, Atwood makes it clear to the reader each character introduced has a distinct role in the society the novel is set in. Gender roles seem to play a major part in the class division of the totalitarian government style of The Handmaid’s Tale and although our government style is very different, class division and gender roles still present major issues in our world today. Throughout the beginning of the novel language is used as a tool to oppress peoples rights and freedoms leading to class division and specific gender roles.

On September 5, 1995, Hilary Clinton gave a speech at the United Nations Fourth World Conference for women's equality, in Beijing, China. Present at the conference were were, 189 governments and more than 5000 representatives of non governmental organizations. The issue that Mrs. Clinton is addressing in this speech is the disrespect towards women and the violation of their rights. She uses pathos an emotional appeal, to get her audience to feel the same way that she does about the issue. She also uses exigence to bring the audience deeper into the conversation. She has been fighting for women’s rights for many years, and she wants her audience to realize how much of a problem it has become and that it needs to be stopped. Her goal is to make her audience believe that women’s rights are human rights through exigence and pathos. Mrs. Clinton also uses the rhetorical element of kairos in her speech. She picks a perfect moment in time, and location to deliver her speech. Though women’s rights is a problem all over the world, it is especially bad in China where the speech is taking place. Clinton is trying to address the issue where it is most relevant. There are many examples of emotional appeals in this speech, and that is how Mrs. Clinton convinces her audience that what she is articulating on is how this issue should be resolved. Through her speech Mrs. Clinton uses pathos to show how women are important to

Today when one thinks of feminism many sneer and roll their eyes in displeasure, perhaps remembering the bra-burning, empowered and angry feminists of the mainly 1970’s feminist movement featuring Margaret Atwood and Germaine Greer. It is easy, apparently, to forget that while things are still far from perfect for women there was a time in fact not very long ago when women were denied the most basic human rights. It comes as no surprise that women took to alternative ways of vocalising what everyone desperately tried to quash. Literature and art became vessels for the struggles and opinions of those that society tried so incredibly hard to push back into the kitchen. One of the best ways for women to express their dissatisfaction with the deeply patriarchal and oppressive society that they had been raised within was through art, which severely lacked female historical representation until this point. The USA was a centre-place for this movement but there is no denying the huge feminist presence that emanated from New Zealand. Documented as one of the first female artists in New Zealand to paint from a female perspective, Jacqueline Fahey paints narrative insights into her life, echoing that of many women at the time. She utilized her paintings to not only narrate her daily life but to make radical insights and critiques about the lives of many women, suburban or fellow artists, of the time.

Susan Douglas is a woman herself, she has gone through the experience that many women have to go through. Because she, herself, is a woman, she is able to speak upon the subject with experience. She knows what she is talking about when it comes to women stereotypes. She is also a feminist academic, columnist, and focuses her writing on gender issues, media criticism and American politics. Since she is knowledgeable on the subject, she is able to challenge other’s thinking and opinions on the subject.

I like to think of myself as a strong woman, and I admit that I’ve been accused more than once of lacking a certain feminine quality. I’ve been raised to believe that I do not need a man, nor should I shy away from tasks such as earning a degree or retiling a floor; therefore, it is difficult for me to suppress my beliefs as Koly endures oppression simply because she is female. The first fifty pages provides a glimpse into another culture, and although terrifying to most American women, this novel definitely lends itself to deep discussion as well as a comparison to feminism within our own culture. I find it important to remember that Koly is not living a “wrong” life; her life is just different, and I can’t emphasize enough the importance for students to practice acceptance and also a willingness to understand others.

Feminism Margaret Atwood is known for her literary works that characterizes her as a strong feminist. One of her books is The Penelopiad. Atwood allows the voiceless Odysseus’s wife, Penelope, to reveal her side of the story as well as the twelve maids who were hung to be weaved in through poetic injections. As Penelope speaks to the 21st century readers, she is giving readers an insight into the patriarchal society during the time period. Margaret Atwood’s creativity, imagination, and her views of feminism allow Penelope to speak in first person about her own experience.

In Emmeline Pankhurst's “Freedom or Death” speech, she defends the tactics of suffragist against her critics. In doing so, she delivers her message with a persuasive tone that shows her passion and urgency for action to be made toward her fight for women’s rights.Through her use of rhetorical strategies such as real-life examples, modes of persuasion, and analogy, she is able to create an explanation for the audience to understand what it is like to be treated with hostility and injustice as a woman in a male dominated society.

During World War One, woman got their first sniff of equal rights as they got jobs in factories when men went away to war. “Professional & commercial careers are opening up for you – /Is that all you want?” (“Feminist Manifesto 2078). Loy believed woman should look for more than just to men for what they want to become. To motivate half the population, Loy had to be charismatic and pushed to have the reader invested in her ideas. To create a convincing argument, Loy must first lure the reader in. Through the use of binary ideas and language, Mina Loy gets the reader invested in her argument, allowing the provocative ideas of her manifesto to come to life.

Ladies and gentlemen, Sadat lived through the absurdities of war. He grew up in a world that was full of chaos and destruction. He lost his very own brother when fighting for Egypt- and that has been a driving force, in Saddat’s holistic ambition to achieve peace in the Middle East. Everything Sadat speaks about, is truly authentic and his sincerity is a contributing factor to the textual integrity of the address. Saddat skilfully illuminates the fundamental values of unity and equality, capitalising on both the Logos and Pathos by delving into biblical beliefs of mutuality between the Arabs and Jews, “Stand together, and erect… an edifice that will shine as a beacon for generations to come.” The striking symbol of a ‘beacon’ reveals Sadat’s

‘The Penelopiad’ is a novella by Margaret Atwood, published in 2005 in the Canongate Myth Series where contemporary authors rewrite ancient myths. Atwood often portrays female characters dominated and oppressed by patriarchy in her novels. Atwood believes that the feminist label can only be applied to writers who consciously work within the framework of the feminist movement. The novella 's central themes include the effects of story-telling perspectives, double standards between the sexes and the classes, and the fairness of justice. Atwood 's novel gives a voice to her hardships and the wits she uses to get through her rough life, which is a form of the Feminist Resistance Theory. In ‘The Penelopiad’, Penelope reminisces on the events during the Odyssey, life in Hades, Odysseus, Helen and her relationships with her parents. A chorus of the twelve maids, whom Odysseus believed were disloyal and whom Telemachus hanged, interrupt Penelope 's narrative to express their view on the events. The present paper is an analysis of the characterization of Penelope as the strongest woman in Margaret Atwood’s play ‘The Penelopaid’.

Feminism is often seen as a negative word towards women, but it actually represents the gender inequality for both men and women. In 2014, Emma Watson, a twenty-four-year-old British actress, and the UN Women Goodwill Ambassador co-hosted a special event for the UN Women’s HeForShe campaign. Before Watson was a UN Women’s Ambassador, she was known as a strong activist for women’s rights. The importance of the HeForShe campaign, which is a united movement, to spread and inform the gender equality awareness for both men and women to the public. As a speaker, Watson comes across to her audience as credible also reliable because she is a UN Women Goodwill Ambassador, she also sends her message across by building a trust relationship with the

Women have displaced men as the greater share of college enrollment and graduates within last few decades rewarding success to feminism; yet gender pay gap, and lack of care of women’s issues prove that although opportunities for success have been made available to women, it’s benefits have not been fully realized. Feminism is fundamentally an ideology based on gender equality with an intent to promote women forward in education and success in professional fields without barriers faced by previous generations such as limited human rights and opportunities to express themselves fully. In the new millenia, feminism is here to rescue woman from domestication and represents a hope for happiness as afforded by men over generations in form of a career. By proclaiming the moral grounding of feminist ideology in gender equality and recognition of female-specific issues, the way is forward to achieve a harmonious effect of revealing the true nature of human affairs without gender bias, injustice, and ignorance. I, as a feminist, declare that by dedicating myself to values of perseverance and confidence targeted towards my education, I will make the greatest contributions possible to society and stand for gender equality and recognition of women 's issues in the 21st century.

Prior to the 19th century women were regarded intellectually and physically inadequate. According to that believe, society was divided into two spheres: a domestic and a public sphere. The domestic or private sphere indicates that women should stay at home; they were not allowed to work or to learn. Besides that, part of their job is to prepare the next generation or carry on the same way of life. On the other hand, the public sphere indicated that men are strong mentally and physically. They were the doers, creators, heroes and the discoverers. That formula of dividing the world into two was against human nature which led to the emergence of several feminists groups demanding solutions to the women cause. One of those was Virginia Woolf who functioned her novel To The