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oppression of the female gender. She states incidents in her life; everything from having ploughed and planted better than men, to being lashed, and bearing thirteen children, and then asks ?ain?t I a woman.? This was here way of saying arn?t my accomplishments in life justified enough to be held in the same esteem with males. This is a speech that is ment to provoke radical change and is one that is a cry for action. She even draws a parallel between women?s rights advocates and eve stating ?If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again!? Rhetorical Devices: Repetition: In the second and third paragraphs in this speech Sojourner Truth uses the phrase ?ain?t I a woman? after every hardship she lists in order to emphasize her points. The phrase ?ain?t I a woman? was used to remind her audience that even though she is a woman, she has endured much hardship and pain in life; just as much as any male has. Diction: Truth?s use of a common and plain diction was a device used to establish her credibility with the audience. She spoke in common language in order to put herself on the same level as her audience so that they identify with her and her torment in life. Through her use of diction she was expressing that she was just as adamant about gaining women?s as any other person in the audience. Ethos: Her use of diction as well as her description of personal experiences helped to establish her as a credible author. When she states that ?I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me,?? this is her way of stating that she is a credible person, by the evidence of her long endurance of oppression from men. Pathos: A sense of compassion and pity was invoked upon the audience through Truth?s examples of how she has suffered many first hand accounts of oppression. The line ?I have borne thirteen children, and seen them most all sold off to slavery, and cried out with my mother?s grief? is a statement which really lets the audience know of the great suffering she has endured. Logos: She uses many personal experiences as well as many broad statements in general about the oppression of women and why there should be action taken against it. She states that if women can do most if not all the things that men can do why do they deserve to be treated as second class citizens? She uses the statement ?If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women togeather ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again? to form her thesis statement. Quote: ?If my cup won?t hold but a pint, and yours hold a quart, wouldn?t you be mean not to let me have my little half-measure full?? Address to the Legislature of New York on Women?s Rights This was a speech given by Elizabeth Cady Stanton in front of the New York legislature in Albany New York. This is a pled to the law makers in the state of New York to take a legal stand and do what is morally right, by passing laws granting women civil rights equal to those of men. This speech takes on the legal stand point of women?s rights. Stanton challenges the logistics of marriage contracts being issued in the states of New York. She states that since it is a civil contract bound by constitutional law both parties entering into the agreement have the full right to back out of the agreement as well. This was not the case she stated for marriage contracts since women did not possess the right to dissolve a marriage as a man did. She states that women are slaves of their husbands as long as they are forced by the law, against their will to continue to be married to someone even if they do not wish to be. She says that it is illegal to have a contract in which one party possesses the privilege to dissolve a contract, and the other party doesn?t. Staton also points out that women possess every Constitutional qualification as a native born citizen, property holder, and tax payer required to vote, except the qualification of gender. She states that even lunatics and crazy men are allowed to vote, but women who are scholars and mathematicians are restricted not to. Her third point is to give women more civil rights as widows. She points out that if a woman is to die then her husband, by law has every right to ownership of any property or assets she left behind, but this is not the case for women. Women are allowed only one third of the land and one half of all the possessions left behind if she were widowed.
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