Rhetorical Analysis Of Samantha Tengelitsch's Sage Femme
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“Children Slept Soundly, the Dog Took Little Notice”
In her essay “Sage Femme: An Argument in Support of Home Birth”, Samantha Tengelitsch encourages her audience through various rhetorical strategies. The most outstanding feature of the strategies is comparison accompanied by symbolism. She uses emblematic images to create a metaphorical comparison between home birth and hospital birth; Woman experienced childbirth at home birth, and men as hospital birth. This comparison, she implied home birth is a natural way of childbirth and hospital birth is an artificial way of childbirth. She compares the scene; “When men entered the attendant space, the beauty and empowerment of birth was stripped away… rather than the laboring women” (440) “to a