Rhetorical Analysis Of Emma Watson's Speech

In the year 2014, at the United Nations headquarters in New York City, United Nations Women’s Goodwill Ambassador Emma Watson delivered an ardent speech addressing the dispute about gender inequality in the world. Her intention was to raise awareness of the struggles that women and men face throughout their life regarding this issue. During this speech, Watson uses numerous strategies to engage her audience’s absorption of the subject along with the three major elements of the speech; her introduction was striking, the body was sympathetic, and the conclusion reached the main goal of the speech. Watson opened her speech with a statement about what the objective of the address was while using a humble, clear, and soft tone, maintaining the emphasis required to portray the emotion necessary as she discussed the way she felt about how neglected gender inequality has been for ages. She engages the audience by telling them that the HeForShe campaign is the first of its kind at the United Nations, stressing again the ignorance that gender inequality goes through. Once again, Watson stresses the main goal of the
Shortly after, we encounter Logos, Watson mentions “No country in the world can yet say they have achieved Gender Equality”, using a soft tone yet loud enough for the crowd to hear her and to makes it by mentioning this fact, awareness is raised, making it easier for the crowd to understand how big the problem is. Eventually, we encounter Ethos when Watson confirms that she is firstly known as an actress but still relies on her own experiences to portray real life moments to make the whole issue