a part taken from a longer work a woman seeking the right to vote
through organized protest
Anna Howard Shaw motivated and inspired women into fighting for their rights. Women began to be more involved and independent, striding towards their suffrage. The speech was given in 1915. In 1920, 5 years later, the 19th amendment was passed and women succeeded in getting their right to vote.
Anna is famous for her speech, The Fundamental Principle of a Republic. This speech was made during the New York State equal suffrage campaign at the City Opera House in Ogdenburg, New York on June 21, 1915. Around this time women became greatly involved in the fight for their suffrage, or right to vote. 1
November 2, 1915 New York State
voters made their feeling known
about the passage of an amendment
to the State‛s Constitution granting
women the right to vote.
Repetition Republic and the
definition of
Republic is repeated
many times
"They have never had so serious a problem to solve
throughout the
speech
before, they will never have a more serious problem
Tone -
to solve in any future of our nation's life....It is not
sarcastic
merely a trifling matter; it is not a little thing that
persuasive
does not concern the state, it is the most vital
critical
problem we could have . . . " Shaw is adressing the
men in the audience.
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Irony "The difficulty with the men of this country is that they are so
consistent in their inconsistency that they are not aware of having been
inconsistent; because their consistency has been so continuos and their
inconsistency so consecutive..."
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