Opgavebeskrivelse
Write an analytical essay (900-1200 words) in which you analyse and comment on Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's "Commencement Address" at Wellesley College.
Part of your essay must focus on how the speaker engages her audience and on the themes of the speech.
Indledning
The concept of difference between genders has always been hard to fathom. There is, of course, an obvious biological difference between men and women, and therefore we usually tend to categorise the genders in other aspects as well.
People distinguish less between the gender roles today and the “rights” and “wrongs” e.g. for a woman, due to human, religious, and cultural development.
However, gender inequality can still be seen everywhere you look in this world and not just in the poorly developed regions. A prominent woman who advocates gender equality is the Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie who gave a speech at Wellesley College, which is a women’s liberal arts college in America.
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Uddrag
This passage has a good example of metaphorical language in it, which she uses to indulge the graduates and to make them do what they really want: “Wellesley will open doors for you.
Walk through those doors and make your strides long and firm and sure” (line 204-206, page 3) Doors represent something which is closed and therefore, in this instance, the closed doors keep you away from your goals. With the circumstances of the speech being these women’s graduation, Adichie means that they should “open the doors” and see what is on the other side (maybe a job or a life that they want).
This could also, more specifically, represent the spirit of women “breaking free”. Adichie also touches on the subject of feminism by telling another anecdote about a prize she was nominated for recently.
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