Susan B Anthony Women's Right To Vote Analysis

The purpose and claim in Susan B. Anthony’s speech on women’s right to vote is clear and precise. The speaker is trying to convey the importance of recognizing the political right (as well as a democratic right) of women in order to keep up the true spirit of the U.S. Constitution and the nation’s democratic nature of governance. The speaker here claims that voting right is one of the most important natural rights and women being an equally important milieu in the society must have the right to vote. To support her claim the speaker has appropriately infused the three major elements of persuasion – ethos, logs, and pathos. Implementing the element of ethos Anthony, in the very first line of the speech reveals that she has the credibility to