Read the excerpt from the Declaration of Sentiments by Elizabeth Cady Stanton. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations,
pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their duty to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. Such has been the patient sufferance of the women under this government, and such is now the necessity which constrains them to demand the equal station to which they are entitled. How does Stanton use pathos as a rhetorical appeal? by describing one young woman's unfulfilled potential by emphasizing the injustices endured by women by explaining laws that govern marriages by establishing her authority to question the status quo
This movement started because authors wanted to dig deeper than Realism and determine the causes for why characters acted the way they did. Naturalism centered around the theme that people are fated based on the conditions of their lives, especially social and environmental factors.