At the Women’s Suffrage Convention in Washington D.C., Elizabeth Cady Stanton, one of the most influential women’s activists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, delivers a completely stunning and powerful clamor for change. During the late nineteenth century, all men gain complete egalitarianism, and the government grants equal opportunity for the males only. In her speech, “The Destructive Male,” Stanton details the long list of women’s forgotten rights. In Washington D.C., Elizabeth Cady Stanton forces the entire world to listen and respond as she delivers the cries of oppressed women, proving the reality of their injustice and the need for demolition of the rigged patriarchy. She uses strong, persuasive figurative language