Edgar Vitola
Professor Yvonne HO
ENGL102
21 October 2016
Critical Evaluation Essay on The Women’s Rights Related Article, Now We Can Begin Written by Crystal Eastman
In the early 20th century a writer named Crystal Eastman wrote an essay. She wrote about one of the biggest moments in our centuries for society, the Woman Suffrage Movement she was consider the pioneer of this movement. Her ideas and moral was used to appeal and helped the movement to win votes, but this was just the beginning form Crystal Eastman. The essay “Now We Can Begin” was an idea on how to improve sexual equality between man and women.
The ethos that she used was to show her knowledge about the issue at the current time. She made the reader believe in the idea
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The writer points out that women are born into a life of restriction solely based on their gender, something that they don’t have control of. This having the situation no form of economic reward makes the woman dependent on man at all cost. Eastman gets into the sympathy of the reader by stating that, every woman is a human being with a soul, to uphold that the structure of the world needs to be rearranged to allow women to exercise their vast talents in an infinite ways as they so choose. If they indeed choose to stay at home and perform house chores and child raising. Eastman then uses this point to talk of child-bearing and how can women can be likely to be truly free if their required by society to have children.
Ethos can be argued by the fact that Eastman is a socialist feminist, who fights for industrial freedom as well as freedom for the liberation of women. These steps that she believes need to be presented in a reasonable order and they make sense in the way that they are offered. A person cannot do the second one without making sure the foundation for the first is in place. This type of argument comes across as an easy read, but at the same time the author makes sure to get her point across. In this situation it is necessary to educate those future leaders to win the liberation