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Susan B. Anthony And Emmeline Pankhurst's Freedom Or Death Of

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In the address of Susan B. Anthony and the “Freedom or Death” of Emmeline Pankhurst both people are speaking about the right for women to be able to vote. In the speech from Susan B. Anthony uses allusion to evaluate reasons why women should be allowed to vote, while Emmeline Pankhurst uses both allusion and metaphors to imply the right for women to be able to vote. In Susan B. Anthony’s address, she uses allusion to give effective reasoning on why women should be allowed to vote. She does this by using allusion to reference the founding fathers and the three unalienable rights given to all people upon birth. As said in paragraph 2, “... no one denies that each individual possessed the right to protect his own life. Liberty and property.”. Through the …show more content…

Further expressed in paragraph 3, “Nor can you find a word in any of the grand documents left us by the fathers that assumes for government the power to create or to confer rights.”. This is used to imply that through time the government has changed the basic rights given to everyone by the founding fathers despite not being meant to be altered. In Emmenline Pankhurst’s speech “Freedom or Death”, allusion is used to provide reasoning upon why women should have the right to vote. This is done through the use of allusion to the civil war as a soldier, as well as through the use of metaphors. As exclaimed in paragraph 3, “ I am here as a soldier who has temporarily left the battlefield in order to explain - it seems strange it should have to be explained - what civil war is like when civil war is waged by women.”. She uses this bit of allusion to imply that the fight for the equality of the right to vote is similar to that of the fight for equality during the civil war. She also uses metaphors such as, “... it has been decided, is of no value to the community at all: and I am adjudged because of my life to be a dangerous person, under sentence of penal servitude in a convict prison.”.

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