Dorothea Lynde Dix (1802-1887), credited for encouraging more humane treatment for mentally ill patients, made a speech to the higher up about how the ill patients were treated and that we must stop the inhumane treatment for more humane treatments. She starts with a narrative describing what she has seen throughout visiting the insane jails. Throughout the speech, she uses pathos and imagery to show how the mentally ill patients were treated. Lynde said, “A woman in a cage. Medford. One idiotic subject chained, and one in a close stall for 17 years.” This also shows imagery because it goes into detail about what she saw and use imagery words like “chained” or “close stall” as dark words. She used comparison and contrast in her speech