Rhetorical Devices Homework.
Same Sex Marriage.
In today’s world, discrimination is something that happens globally and nothing seems to help stop it. Discrimination falls under the hatred of another individual according to their race, color, or gender. However, we are now seeing another type of discrimination for same sex marriage that now appears to be happening commonly in the world today. As for my personal opinions, I feel like people shouldn’t disagree with something that this that happens in a society. Same sex marriage doesn’t seem to ever bother anyone in any way, except the people who happens to be in the marriage. Same sex marriage should not be an issue, mainly because of its discrimination against have individuals coming from the same sex to perform such action. According to several people, the thought of same sex marriage is linked to the biological thoughts of natural human reproduction. Of course, we know that male-and-male or female-and-female obviously can’t reproduce through the process. Wollstonecraft and Defoe’s reaction towards this movement include the arguments that society SHOULD be okay with same sex marriage, mainly because since they find the importance and benefits of establishing women’s right, they would most likely see how same sex marriage could help people in any way possible. There really is nothing that same sex marriage can do to benefit anyone except like I mentioned, the people involved in the relationship. However, we must understand that it really doesn’t bother anyone in anyway. Probably just the people who aren’t in well working relationships.
Rhetorical Devices in Wollstonecraft and Defoe’s Writing.
In the two essays from both Wollstonecraft and Defoe, is that they use several elements and literary methods that make their message a really powerful piece of writing that actually makes an impact only through the use of literature. In Wollstonecraft’s essay “A vindication in the right for women,” she uses many different sets of explanation and rhetorical devices that makes her message get across the issues. An example that comes directly from her text is quoted:
“Women are told from their infancy, and taught by the example of their mothers that a little knowledge of human weakness, justly termed cunning, softness of temper, outward obedience, and a scrupulous attention to a puerile kind of propriety, will obtain for them the protection of man, and should they be beautiful, every thing else is needed, for at least twenty years of their live.”
…this powerful statement highlights how women are always looked down on and how they are described as to only want to look beautiful and in that case attract men only to gain what the man is capable of doing in the world. This little quoted piece is just one way that she works to put her eagerness for the rights of women to work.
In Defoe’s message, mostly under the concern of women’s education, is a well written piece of work that also uses a set of writing techniques that only gets his message to change the world. In his passage, most of what he says is the importance and meaning that women have in the world and how they actually would gain equal amount of rights to men if they actually stand up for themselves. One of the quotes from this message includes, “the soul is placed in the body “like rough diamond” and that, like the diamond, it needs to be polished. The soul, he says, needs to be polished by education.” This simile not only talks about how special women really is especially in ways that people don’t really see, and at the same time, gives us the impression that they actually matter in the world of education.
