Rhetorical Analysis Of Malala Yousafzai's Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech

Knowing education and knowledge brought humanity from a life of stone-age to our modern world, one can see why the world thrives on providing necessary tutelage for society’s children to keep the globe growing. Despite that statement and the general agreemence based from it, many countries and cities around the world prevent this right for the children. In Pakistan, the Taliban destroyed more than four hundred schools and prevented all women from seeking out education. The means of their prevention included harassment, abduction, and very commonly simple murder. Malala Yousafzai fought for change for all of the girls who were kept from seeking an education. She believes in the ability for children and young girls to be able to receive education

Ethos is the rhetorical device that is based on the reliability, trustworthiness and the ability of a speaker by who or what they are. Conversley, Yousafzai lived the impact of the Taliban first hand. She tells us that she understands exactly what needs to be done to solve the problem, for she has experienced the issue first hand. Ordinarily one knows the extent of the experiences in her own life, however she states she is not there for herself, she is there to “[tell] the story of many girls” (Yousafzai). As she goes on to tell their stories, such as being shot and abused. Yousafzai tells us the experiences of not just girls she knows of, but of all the girls she personally knows. Each girl has experienced this extreme hardship, and all of them being able to have this standing voice for them is a demonstration of ethos. The use of personal experience backed by the recorded actions and all these voices of all these girls shows the use of ethos in her

Her ability to connect to her audience and convey real struggle and inspire such numbers with pathos and ethos does not take away from her use of other rhetorical devices. The most obvious of the rhetorical devices in her speech is repetition. Repetition is used to add impact and reel the audience’s focus back in. Notably, she sums up her speech by bringing back all of the girls and all of their stories she previously told. A major theme within her words is that she is not alone, any of those girls, or anyone at all. She wanted to bring herself as a connecting voice to all the victims who need help from these higher heads to have them connect. Malala Yousafzai brings together all of the girls and herself by saying “I am Malala. But I am also Shazia. I am Kainat. I am Kainat Soomro. I am Mezon. I am Amina. I am those 66 million girls who are deprived of education” (Yousafzai). By doing this, she not only sums up all of the horrendous lives these girls have felt, and makes them all one. She makes them one and puts all of that force into inspiring the listeners. By using repetition, she is able to build up to the conclusion of her speech. By using repetition, she can convey the necessity for change for these girls. By using repetition, she made her and all of those 66 million girls more heart than they ever