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Pathos

"This Declaration is based upon the spiritual fact that man must have freedom in which to develop his full stature and common effort to raise the level of human dignity."

Background Information

  • Eleanor Roosevelt was born in New York City on October 11th, 1884 (Died on November 7th, 1962)
  • Married Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1905
  • After Mr. Roosevelt's polio attack (an infectious disease), Eleanor Roosevelt stepped forward to help with his career
  • She is known to be one of the most outspoken women in history - after Mr. Roosevelt died, she became a women's rights activist and wrote the UDHR

Ethos

The Adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

  • The audience that Roosevelt's speech was directed towards is well aware of her understanding and awareness of how our society needs the basic human rights in order to achieve equality, equity, and justice
  • She was the wife of former US president Franklin D. Roosevelt and was the chair of the United Nations commission on Human Rights

  • Eleanor Roosevelt presented this speech on December 9th, 1948 in Palais De Chaillot, Paris, France
  • The purpose of her speech was to announce to our society the adoption of the Declaration and explaining the complexities and politics involved in the drafting of the document
  • The purpose of the Declaration was to bring peace to our society after the Second World War took place

Rhetorical Devices

Three rhetorical devices found within Roosevelt's speech are: repetition, allusion, and parenthesis.

  • Repetition: Roosevelt repeats declaration, human rights, and amendments within her speech.
  • Allusion: Roosevelt refers to Gladstone Murray and Secretary Marshall when addressing human rights and morals.
  • Parenthesis: "Taken as a whole the delegation of the United States believes that this is a good - even a great document - and we propose to give it our full support."

Logos

Adjectives

Dissecting The Speech

"The Soviet amendment to Article 20 is obviously a very restrictive statement of the right to freedom of opinion and expression."

  • Roosevelt's speech was a persuasive speech. It informs the audience and persuades people into wanting to adopt basic human rights.
  • Roosevelt also persuades the audience into believing in basic human rights by expressing her emotional beliefs, showing logical content towards her audience, and establishing credibility within her speech.
  • "The new article proposed by the Soviet delegation is but a restatement of state obligation, which the soviet delegation attempted to introduce into practically every article in the Declaration."
  • "...Soviet delegation and committee and rejected after exhaustive discussion."
  • "This in no way affects our wholehearted support for the basic principles of economic, social. and cultural rights set forth in these articles.

Adverbs

  • "I should like to comment briefly on the amendments proposed by the Soviet delegation."
  • "The long and meticulous debate of which this Universal Declaration of Human Rights is the product means that it reflects the composite views of the many men and governments who have contributed to its formulation."
  • "The Soviet amendment to article 20 is obviously a very restrictive statement of the right to freedom of opinion and expression."

Effectiveness of Roosevelt's Concluding Statement

  • Roosevelt uses quotes from significant men in Canadian and American history
  • The concluding statement within Eleanor Roosevelt's speech allows her to restate her argument while reminding her audience of what needs to be done in order to give society basic human rights.

Imaginative Comparisons or Analogies

These metaphors, found within the speech, are used to emphasize what Roosevelt is trying to describe to her audience.

  • "The realization that the flagrant violation of human rights by Nazi fascists countries sowed the seeds of the last World War."
  • "But in the older democracies we have learned that sometimes we bow to the will of the majority."

The Adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Julia Wilson and Kayla Collins

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