If Shakespeare Had A Sister By Virginia Woolf

Writer and women’s rights activist, Virginia Woolf, argues in, “if Shakespeare Had a Sister “(1929) that women are just as capable as men, had they been given the same circumstances. She conveys this message by her use of pathos, logos, and syntax.
Woolf’s message that women could’ve been just as successful as men if they were treated the same is reinforced by her appealing to pathos.”She found herself with child by that gentleman and so-- who shall measure the heat and violence of the poet’s heart when caught and tangled in a woman’s body?--killed herself one winter’s night and lies buried at some cross-roads where the omnibuses now stop outside the Elephant and Castle.” By appealing to pathos woolf makes the audience have an emotional connection to the message she is trying to convey. The evolution of her appeals to pathos reflects a similar evolution of the message. “Reviewing the story of Shakespeare’s sister as I
By appealing to logos and using history to her advantage she further conveys the message that women weren’t as successful as men because they weren’t given the same circumstances. Woolf combines both pathos and logos by using factual history that also plays on the emotions of her audience. I went, therefore, to the shelf where the histories stand and took down one of the latest, Professor Trevelyan's History of England. Once more I looked up Women, found "position of," and turned to the pages indicated. Wife-beating," I read, "was a recognised right of man, and was practised without shame by high as well as low. . . . Similarly," the historian goes on, "the daughter who refused to marry the gentleman of her parents' choice was liable to be locked up, beaten and flung about the room, without any shock being inflicted on public opinion. “ By using a combination of pathos and logos she causes the audience to become empathetic, but not just based on her opinion- instead based on real