Rhetorical Analysis On Susan B Anthony

To think back in the old days, when women were struggling get right to vote and when Susan B. Anthony was active giving speeches, she made a great speech to hear us all. At that time, men were controlled. Startlingly, she says “Friends and fellow-citizens.” This is because she was trying to introduce an important topic of her main argument. Then she says, “I stand before you tonight under indictment for the alleged crime of having voted at the last Presidential election, without having lawful right to vote.” This defines to me that she has voted in last Presidential election. After this she explains, “I not only committed no crime, but instead, simply exercised my citizen’s rights.” She is saying that she have not done a crime but suffered and worked hard to make different rules. Basically, in this paragraph, Anthony thinks that her action of voting was illegal, but morally justified meaning it is not legal to vote; however, she believes she have done a right thing. In the second paragraph Anthony explains furthermore to strengthen her thesis. She says, “it was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union.” a way to describe this into easier words is that she supposes that female are also the people but not male and white male citizens who formed the large Union. In this excerpt, It has clearly shown that at that time there are still racism happen between the blacks and the whites. Anthony is saying two distinct skin color of people and also created this whole union. In the rest of this paragraph, she says

Her arguments are clear with her specific reasons and evidences to support her argument. Fortunately, women’s right to vote was created; however, when we think back, we can imagine that Anthony and the women had tough time living in their