Women’s rights is a topic that has formed the society that we live in today, over the past few centuries many generations of women has fought for what they believed was right.
Emmeline Pankhurst was a British political activist who held a speech in 1913 about women’s right to vote. She saw a world that in her opinion was unfair, and took the opportunities to take a step in a new direction.
In Pankhurst speech, she manages to enlighten a problem that many other women did not have the courage to speak openly about. The speech is still being admired today, and looked upon as a motivation for many upcoming generation.
Analysis
The topic of the speech is the fight for women’s rights to vote, and how this can relate to other struggles as gender discrimination. Meanwhile the speaker is Emmeline Pankhurst. The audience that Pankhurst is trying to persuade is the Americans, this is specifically clear as she travelled to America to deliver this specific speech. Pankhurst makes use of a variety of complex words such as: obstinately, ordeal and aroused, which makes her speech very professional. This has an effect on the audience and how Pankhurst chooses to present her speech. At the time of the speech, women around the world was unable to vote. But 7 years after her speech, the 19th amendment were introduced in America, and most women were allowed to vote although some states allowed women to vote before this. Pankhurst’s intention is to gain support from mainly the American, both financially and politically.
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