In Sojourner Truth's speech, "Ain't I A Woman?" ethos is established both extrinsically and intrinsically to share that there should not be a double standard for women who are fully capable of doing everyday activities. This moving speech was presented at the women's convention in Ohio in 1851. As an activist for women's rights and an abolitionist in the mid-1800s, Truth used her voice to speak out against injustices that many people were too afraid to voice. Before reading her speech, her extrinsic ethos was already established with her reputation. Escaping slavery, Truth is a great example and someone who is revered as an "evangelist, feminist, and abolitionist" (History). Using her extrinsic ethos, the audience will be more prone to understand the movements she is advocating because she has first-hand experiences of not being able to exercise her rights as a black woman. Intrinsically, Truth recalls examples of the double standard set by men against women. She alludes to how men expect women to be weaker and need assistance from men when "lifted into carriages and over ditches." Her ethos refutes those claims by stating that she did not need a man for those simple task by declaring "Ain't [she] a woman?" The intrinsic and extrinsic ethos established by Sojourner Truth in "Ain't I A Woman?" expresses her disagreement towards the double standard set by men towards women. (My additional source that I used for background on Sojourner Truth: of http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/sojourner-truth)
If there's anyone who has well established ethos on the basis of civil rights, it's Sojourner Truth. I remember reading her "Ain't I a Woman" speech a year or two ago. It is truly a powerful work. Although a lot of it appeals to other elements of rhetoric, it is made all the more powerful by who she is as a person and what she has accomplished.
ReplyDeleteIf there's anyone who has well established ethos on the basis of civil rights, it's Sojourner Truth. I remember reading her "Ain't I a Woman" speech a year or two ago. It is truly a powerful work. Although a lot of it appeals to other elements of rhetoric, it is made all the more powerful by who she is as a person and what she has accomplished.
ReplyDeleteSojourner Truth is an iconic woman who was the epitome of the fight for civil rights. She was a slave for her rights and other slaves. She established extrinsic ethos through her own person struggles and experience. She truly deserved all the authority she had because of what she had done for black people.
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