Elizabeth Cady Stanton's Speech 'The Destructive Male'

Women’s rights advocate, Elizabeth Cady Stanton exposes the flaws in society created by the lack of women’s input and representation in her speech “The Destructive Male”. Stanton wrote her speech to promote a sixteenth amendment that would allow women the right to vote. She utilizes a hopeful, determined tone in order to elicit a sense of ambition from her audience.

Stanton opens her speech by clearly stating what she hopes to achieve by speaking at the Convention. As a women’s rights leader, she participated in many movements to further justice for women in America.