Frederick Douglass Rhetorical Analysis
Diana Martinez
Ms. Gorman
AP Lang and Comp
3/4/13
Period 3
What the American woman wants/What the black man wants The 1800’s were hard times for those who weren’t white males. Every other human being was basically considered a minority including American woman and African Americans. There came a point where the minority groups had enough of their voices being ignored which is when fearless leaders in each group appeared. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Fredrick Douglas were the brave souls of their groups. Douglas and Stanton were leaders of two different minorities but fought for similar causes, with the powerful use of metonymy, invection, and allusions their cry for equality ignited a spark that hasn’t let out to this day. As …show more content…
Douglas and Stanton both use this tone which makes their speeches for equality so much more entertaining all while making their purpose so much stronger. Douglas tells his audience, “certainly it means that, if it means anything; and when any individual or combination of individuals undertakes to decide for any man when he shall work, where he shall work, at what he shall work, and for what he shall work, he or they practically reduce him to slavery” (Douglas 18). Douglas got applauses for his very excellent point on how free blacks are suppressed from their rights. Stanton talked to her audience about the limitations that are put on honorable woman while disgraceful men had all their rights, “but to have drunkards, idiots, horse racing, rum-selling rowdies, ignorant foreigners, and silly boys fully recognized, while we ourselves are thrust out from all the rights that belong to citizens, it is too grossly insulting to the dignity of woman to be longer quietly submitted to” (Stanton 33). Both use invection to a point where it lets them firmly make their point but doesn’t completely insult or negatively impact the
Ms. Gorman
AP Lang and Comp
3/4/13
Period 3
What the American woman wants/What the black man wants The 1800’s were hard times for those who weren’t white males. Every other human being was basically considered a minority including American woman and African Americans. There came a point where the minority groups had enough of their voices being ignored which is when fearless leaders in each group appeared. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Fredrick Douglas were the brave souls of their groups. Douglas and Stanton were leaders of two different minorities but fought for similar causes, with the powerful use of metonymy, invection, and allusions their cry for equality ignited a spark that hasn’t let out to this day. As …show more content…
Douglas and Stanton both use this tone which makes their speeches for equality so much more entertaining all while making their purpose so much stronger. Douglas tells his audience, “certainly it means that, if it means anything; and when any individual or combination of individuals undertakes to decide for any man when he shall work, where he shall work, at what he shall work, and for what he shall work, he or they practically reduce him to slavery” (Douglas 18). Douglas got applauses for his very excellent point on how free blacks are suppressed from their rights. Stanton talked to her audience about the limitations that are put on honorable woman while disgraceful men had all their rights, “but to have drunkards, idiots, horse racing, rum-selling rowdies, ignorant foreigners, and silly boys fully recognized, while we ourselves are thrust out from all the rights that belong to citizens, it is too grossly insulting to the dignity of woman to be longer quietly submitted to” (Stanton 33). Both use invection to a point where it lets them firmly make their point but doesn’t completely insult or negatively impact the