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A Comparison Of Susan B. Anthony And Emmeline Pankhurst

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Imagine being a woman during the times when you could not vote. This was the reality for both Susan B. Anthony and Emmeline Pankhurst. Anthony gave a speech entitled “Is it a Crime for a Citizen of the United States to Vote?” In this speech she attempts to make a claim that women should have the right to vote, through her use of logic and analogy to laws. Additionally, Pankhurst gave a speech in 1913 called “Freedom of Death” where she expressed her feelings and opinions about women’s right to vote with her use of repetition and metaphors. Both authors use their own rhetorical analysis to make their claims about women’s voting effective. Logic is used in Anthony’s attempt to persuade listeners to give women the right to vote. It is shown that …show more content…

Firstly, a metaphor was used when she implies “I dare say, you will perhaps forgive me this personal touch - that I do not look either very like a soldier or very like a convict, and yet I am both.” She compares the physical looks of a soldier and a convict, stating that she is both. In the attempt to inform listeners that looks can be deceiving, it is highlighted that Pankhurst felt obligated to share her thoughts on women’s rights, so much so that she “left the battlefield.” This reveals her extreme dedication and striving to have the ability to vote. Repetition is continually used later on in the speech when she explains “If I were a man, I come from a country which professes to have representative institutions and yet denies me, an inhabitant of the country, rights, you would understand that that, being a man, was justified in revolutionary methods to get representative institutions.” The repetition in this paragraph of “man” intensifies the fact that at the time the men had all the power and could get away with almost anything. Pankhurst’s attempt to give women the rights to vote proved to be effective when appealing to metaphor and

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