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History of Women's Suffrage, Preceding Causes by Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Paragraph 2:
Although woman has performed much of the labor of the world, her industry and economy have been the very means of increasing her degradation. Not being free, the results of her labor have gone to build up and sustain the very class that has perpetuated this injustice. Even in the family, where we should naturally look for the truest conditions, woman has always been robbed of the fruits of her own toil. The influence . . . that monarchies have had on political free thought, that serfdom has had upon free labor, have all been cumulative in the family upon woman. Taught that father and husband stood to her in the place of God, she has been denied liberty of conscience, and held in obedience to masculine will. Taught that the fruits of her industry belonged to others, she has seen man enter into every avocation most suitable to her, while she, the uncomplaining drudge of the household, condemned to the severest labor, has been systematically robbed of her earnings, which have gone to build up her master's power, and she has found herself in the condition of the slave, deprived of the results of her own labor. Taught that education for her was indelicate and irreligious, she has been kept in such gross ignorance as to fall a prey to superstition, and to glory in her own degradation. Taught that a low voice is an excellent thing in woman, she has been trained to a subjugation of the vocal organs, and thus lost the benefit of loud tones and their well-known invigorating the system. Forbidden to run, climb, or jump, her muscles have been weakened, and her strength deteriorated.
Confined most of the time to the house, she has neither as strong lungs nor as vigorous a digestion as her brother. Forbidden to enter the pulpit, she has been trained to an unquestioning reverence for theological authority and false belief upon the most vital interests of religion. Forbidden the medical profession, she has at the most sacred times of her life been left to the ignorant supervision of male physicians, and seen her young children die by thousands. Forbidden to enter the courts, she has seen her sex unjustly tried and condemned for crimes men were incapable of judging.

Give two examples of repetition in paragraph 2 and explain how they reinforce Stanton's purpose.

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Step-by-step explanation:

1. Stanton's repetition of the word 'taught' when refering to the lessons thay women have recived reinforces that women have been taught they are a minority, or nothing more than a home servant for america, used in sentences such as, "taught the fruits of her industry belonged to others," and "taught a low voice is an excellent thing in a woman."

2. the word 'forbidden' can be seen many times in the second half of paragraph two, used in referral of all the things women were told they could not do, such as "forbidden the medical feild," or "forbidden to enter the courts." these contribute to the first point.

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