Emma Watson Un Speech Analysis

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Zoe Ting Rhetoric Mrs. Downey 16th November 2014 Speech Analysis British Actress, Emma Watson was appointed as Goodwill Ambassador for UN Women earlier in the summer. She gave a speech about gender inequality and how to fight it in September, She launched a campaign HeForShe, which aimed to get men and boys to commit to join the feminist fight for gender equality. This speech makes a very important point that in order to achieve gender equality, harmful and destructive stereotypes and expectations about masculinity have got to change. This UN speech that Emma presented, contains ethos, pathos, and logos to support her arguments. In this speech, Emma used ethos to establish her credibility, character and worth. She does not portrait herself as a “Harry Potter Girl”, that she delivered a flawless and powerful speech to end the perception that she is just the “Harry Potter Girl”. She was appointed 6 months before she delivered the speech, and she did much research on the issue – gender inequality. In the beginning of her speech to get the audiences’ attention, she declared that her audiences are from all over the world, from elders to youngers, and from males to females. She spends an adequate part of her speech to show her personal experience of gender inequality and information from researching, for example, “I’ve seen my father’s role as a parent being valued less by society.” Also, “When at 15, my girlfriends started dropping out of sports teams because they did not want to appear masculine. At 18, my male friends were unable to express their feelings. I decided that I was a feminist.” This personal story illustrates that feminism is not just for women. Emma considered herself as a feminist because women feel the pressure to be “feminine” and men feel the pressure to be “masculine”, and these are stereotypes. Later

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