The Solitude Of Self By Elizabeth Cady Stanton

arguing that women had the right to equality in all aspects of their lives, including the

Furthermore, She provides a strong tone that evaluates the potential of a woman. She presents her speech with facts and with confidence and passion. Her tone is trying to motivate young women to act up and take action. Along the way in her speech she makes up a sarcastic tone by claiming that “[women]do not have executive ability, orderly minds, stability, leadership skills, and they are too emotional”(Chisholm, 149). The use of this tone provides affirmation that conveys young women to feel capable of doing anything that men can do. These words don’t define the potential of women nor their abilities. Women are strong, women can take anything, women are smart, women have leadership. Just like Chisholm, women have a voice to speak up and advocate for a change. Throughout her positives tones, she also presents an emotional appeal to the youth who are going to college and are struggling. In reality, some women don’t get the same opportunity as others.“...when a young woman graduates from college…she is likely to have a frustrating and demanding experience ahead of her”(Chisholm, 149). Women face challenges with their eligibility when applying to jobs. Looking for a job is not as easy for women, it takes time and persistence. Unlike men, who are seen as

Encouragement can only get one so far, and without the ability to attend the same colleges men do, Fuller was still left at a disadvantage. It is for these reasons that Fuller pursued the equal rights of women. She experienced firsthand the benefits of education, as well as her inability to further her education in the same way as men.

Do not "voices" come to us daily from the haunts of poverty, sorrow, degradation, and despair, already too long unheeded? Now is the time for the women of this country, if they would save our free institutions, to defend the right, to buckle on the armor that can best resist the keenest weapons of the enemy—contempt and ridicule.�? This insert from the speech is very persuasive because it utilizes pathos. Elizabeth does this by adding allusion to the text, she brings in a well-known woman from the bible and by using a well knows character, it provides evidence to the audience that women can be strong, and courageous and just like men, therefore they deserve equal rights. The message is clear and the readers now feel proud of women and what they are capable of, and agree even more with Elizabeth’s ideas on

In the Elizabethan period, women were subordinate to men. They were considered to be ‘inferior' beings who were controlled by their husbands, fathers or any other men in the family. Women were not allowed to hold their own opinions, views or lifestyles. Men had control of everything, some of these included money, politics, work, children, women and home.

These rights are stated as “Life, Liberty, and Pursuit of happiness”. Elizabeth tries to show that these natural rights cannot be achieved by women if they do not have the equal opportunities that men have. One of her most famous quotes is; “He has taken from her all right in property, even to the wages she earns…” (Stanton). As stated before property is a natural right, and Stanton shows that this was taken away from women by not granting them the right to their own property or labor wages, again highlighting the fact the rights were only given to men. The pursuit of happiness was an immensely emphasized right that was not given to women through-out her speech. How can women be happy when not being able to do the things they wish to do? That’s a question Stanton often asked herself when analyzing the right she was being deprived of. Elizabeth said “He has denied her the facilities for obtaining a thorough education - all colleges being closed against her.” (Stanton). Her statement about women being denied the rights to a fair and thorough education stressed the point of women’s desire to gain access to the same facilities as men, but being denied from doing so. This was yet another example to show her audience the absence of natural rights for

Elizabeth’s strength, independence, and her intense willpower to assure that her marriage is coordinated only by love demonstrate the feminist portrayal of Elizabeth. Elizabeth’s desire for

The Declaration of Rights of Women was a speech in which the National Woman Suffrage Association declared their freedom on July 4th, 1876 because they have no voice or representation in government. Anthony, like Stanton spoke about the “many forms of flagrant discrimination” women faced politically tries to their argument around 1776. Anthony talks about “the broad principles of human rights proclaimed in 1776, not only as abstract truths but as the corner stones of the republic” that these rights aren’t only for half of the population, but these natural rights are given to everyone, regardless of gender. Lastly, Anthony believes that disregarding these rights will only set a bad precedent for the future of the republic, setting its own demise.

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Elizabeth’s first major fight within the world of feminism was after the Civil War had ended, and slavery had been abolished. She joined with Fredrick Douglas, Susan B. Antony, and many other influential women of the time, to create the American Equal Suffrage Association. This group was created to not only secure the voting rights of American women but also the voting right for any freed slave. However, once the bill that had been created to ratify the fifteenth amendment came to the senate floor, it was discovered that although the bill included rights for colored men to vote, it excluded the word ‘sex’, therefore it did not give women the right to vote. The women’s movement of the American Equal Suffrage Association was outraged by the injustice done and they went on to continue the fight for equality without Fredrick Douglas.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton delivered her speech “The Solitude of Self” in 1892, which presented a definition of being a human being as well as being a woman in the time when males were dominating the society. By analyzing the historical and rhetorical context that the speech was delivered at, I argue that Stanton managed to address her purpose to the targeted audiences.

She mentioned that educating women is effective due to the fact the benefits are felt throughout the entire community. She stated that an educated woman's household is likely to prosper resulting in a higher income. All it takes is an extra year of secondary education which increases a woman's income as high as twenty five percent a year. Participating in the labor market, helps educated women boost their productivity in the economy also paving the way for great wealth in their community as well. It is proven that women with higher education receive more benefits which are a huge factor in their households. For example, women who are educated are less likely to contract s such as HIV or AIDS. Ms. Gillards stated that if you educate a woman, she will have the empowerment and the economic freedom that comes with having the ability to make wiser decision such as when to have children. Instead of having many children she will have less, and have them later in life. With a good education it helps women to overcome things such as child miscarriages, the children that she does have are more likely to survive longer, they are more likely to be vaccinated and are more likely to literate themselves and go to

“The subject of the Education of Women of the higher classes is one which has undergone singular fluctuations in public opinions” (Cobbe 79). Women have overcome tremendous obstacles throughout their lifetime, why should higher education stand in their way? In Frances Power Cobbe’s essay “The Education of Women,” she describes how poor women, single women, and childless wives, deserve to share a part of the human happiness. Women are in grave need of further improvements in their given condition. Cobbe suggests that a way to progress these improvements manifests in higher education, and that this will help further steps in advance. Cobbe goes on to say that the happiest home, most grateful husband, and the most devoted children came from a woman, Mary Sommerville, who surpassed men in science, and is still studying the wonders of God’s creations. Cobbe has many examples within her paper that shows the progression of women as a good thing, and how women still fulfill their duties despite the fact that they are educated. The acceptance of women will be allowed at the University of New England because women should be able to embrace their abilities and further their education for the benefit of their household, their lives, and their country.

Women, their rights and nothing less.” This is her point of view on the way women were

Text 1 tells a lot about how Elizabeth and a few others didn't like not having rights.It also tells us that they made convention/meeting that was held for a while saying that women should have rights!It also states that men wouldn't allow this and was outrages…this story is kinda sexist, but this was the time before women's rights.Very strong text and really supports her so far.