Rhetorical Analysis Of Emma Watson's Speech

Emma Watson is a well-known actress that she gained her popularity as Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter film collections. She gave a thirteen minutes’ speech on gender inequality for the UN Women, or The United Nations Entity for gender equality and the Empowerment of Women, on September 2014. This speech uses emotions to connect with audiences, establishes her credibility, and lists out different facts and statistic that reignite the feminist movement successfully.
In this speech, Emma uses emotions to connect with audiences. She pointed out that she has spoken with the feminism and she realized that women’s right is important. Then, she recalled her own experiences, such as “being called bossy”, “being sexualized”, “my girlfriends started dropping out of their sports teams because they didn’t want to appear muscly” (Watson). For example, “Apparently I am among the ranks of women whose expressions are seen as too strong, too aggressive, isolating, anti-man and, unattractive.” (Watson). Furthermore, she implied that “both men and women should feel free to be sensitive. Both men and women should feel free to be strong.” (Watson), which she
Throughout the speech, Emma used the strategy of ethos, pathos, and logos to not only attract listeners’ attention, but also asked them to join the HeForShe campaign to support women around the world. She shared her own experiences, chose simple words but powerful enough to grab listeners’ awareness, and gave impactful statistics at the end. She broke the traditional opinion, meaning instead of saying gender inequality only applies to women, she acknowledged that men are also suffering the same condition. To conclude, at the end of the speech, Emma escaped of her image is Hermione Granger in Harry potter but provided the public as the speaker of UN and a supporter of both gender equality and HeForShe