The Left Hand Address Rhetorical Analysis
A Left-Handed Commencement Address Rhetorical Analysis
In 1983 men were paid up to 56% more than women, in 2014 the difference was down to 21%. This is partly because of feminist influences such as Ursula K. Le Guin. In her speech “The Left-Handed Commencement Address” Ursula K. Le Guin describes that women are as deserving as men to be paid equally, educated, smart and intelligent as a part of our modern world. She points out that women have learned all of the same things men have in college yet, the roles still go to men even if a woman had all of the right or often times better qualifications. Also that women have learned failure, they know how to pick themselves up when something does not work out. The purpose of her speech is to encourage women to be what they want to be and therefore support the feminist movement. Women are capable and willing to be a part of the so called “male world”. Women should be given a chance to prove themselves and show that they are much more than trophies and victims of male hierarchy. Suppression is the topic of the first and second paragraph and how women have to live up to male expectations.. “If you can tell Margaret Thatcher from Ronald Reagan, or Indira Gandhi from …show more content…
In paragraph seven, Le Guin compares the roles of men and women and how that plays out in their workplace, “All that the Warrior denies and refuses is left to us and the men who share it with us and therefore, like us, can’t play doctor, only nurse, can’t be warriors, only civilians, can’t be chiefs, only indians”. By repeating the words “can’t play” and “only” Le Guin emphasises what women are limited to doing and being. This shows the inequality between men and women, Also that men by choosing their own roles force women into the roles that are left. This connects to her purpose of supporting the feminist movement that women should not be forced into leftover
In 1983 men were paid up to 56% more than women, in 2014 the difference was down to 21%. This is partly because of feminist influences such as Ursula K. Le Guin. In her speech “The Left-Handed Commencement Address” Ursula K. Le Guin describes that women are as deserving as men to be paid equally, educated, smart and intelligent as a part of our modern world. She points out that women have learned all of the same things men have in college yet, the roles still go to men even if a woman had all of the right or often times better qualifications. Also that women have learned failure, they know how to pick themselves up when something does not work out. The purpose of her speech is to encourage women to be what they want to be and therefore support the feminist movement. Women are capable and willing to be a part of the so called “male world”. Women should be given a chance to prove themselves and show that they are much more than trophies and victims of male hierarchy. Suppression is the topic of the first and second paragraph and how women have to live up to male expectations.. “If you can tell Margaret Thatcher from Ronald Reagan, or Indira Gandhi from …show more content…
In paragraph seven, Le Guin compares the roles of men and women and how that plays out in their workplace, “All that the Warrior denies and refuses is left to us and the men who share it with us and therefore, like us, can’t play doctor, only nurse, can’t be warriors, only civilians, can’t be chiefs, only indians”. By repeating the words “can’t play” and “only” Le Guin emphasises what women are limited to doing and being. This shows the inequality between men and women, Also that men by choosing their own roles force women into the roles that are left. This connects to her purpose of supporting the feminist movement that women should not be forced into leftover