Elizabeth Cady Stanton's Argument Analysis
In today’s society, women could be seen working at hospitals or schools or maybe some decide to be a housewife. In the early 1800s and before, women were seen as mere objects with immunity, freedom or priority. Women had no claim in literacy, in government, in owning land, saving earnings have a profession or ballot. Elizabeth Cady Stanton fought for what she believed was honorable in the female gender. Stanton placed confidence for women to have the ability to vote and have women suffrage. Also she place logical reasoning into why women should have the same equal right as men. Lastly Stanton used a more emotional appeal to attract more supporter. At Seneca Falls Women’s Convention in 1848, Stanton wrote the Declaration of Sentiment, Stanton
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In the Declaration of Sentiment, this can be seen in the following statement as follows, “He has made her, if married, in the eye of the law, civilly dead.” Namely meaning, when a woman is married she is seen as nothing more as an object, with no voice or authority. The woman loses her rights as a female. “He has assured the prerogative of Jehovah himself, claiming it as his right for her a sphere of action, when that belongs to her conscience and and to her God.”. In other words, he meaning men is telling what a women has to do, what she has to follow and is of no business but to himself and God. Logos is applied as it displays the way of life back in the days. It allows the audience to see how women were treated and how women had no right to claim for anything. It also allows the audience to understand why women are fighting for women's suffrage. Stanton also connected to the Declaration Of Independence according to the following, “that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” As the founding fathers stated, Stanton also states the living of women and how her rights are denied from
In the Declaration of Sentiment, this can be seen in the following statement as follows, “He has made her, if married, in the eye of the law, civilly dead.” Namely meaning, when a woman is married she is seen as nothing more as an object, with no voice or authority. The woman loses her rights as a female. “He has assured the prerogative of Jehovah himself, claiming it as his right for her a sphere of action, when that belongs to her conscience and and to her God.”. In other words, he meaning men is telling what a women has to do, what she has to follow and is of no business but to himself and God. Logos is applied as it displays the way of life back in the days. It allows the audience to see how women were treated and how women had no right to claim for anything. It also allows the audience to understand why women are fighting for women's suffrage. Stanton also connected to the Declaration Of Independence according to the following, “that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” As the founding fathers stated, Stanton also states the living of women and how her rights are denied from