Describe the metaphor that winfrey uses toward the end of her speech. why, do you suppose, she chose this image to represent the #metoo movement? is it effective

Winfrey Oprah is the first black woman to receive the award since it was first given out, to DeMille himself, in 1952. During the Golden Globes she gives an important example based on the hidden influence of speaking the truth infact through examples, allusions, and metaphors, she makes an implicit argument that we should speak out.

Even though we might not see a direct impact.  In the final paragraph, Winfrey leans heavy on a sunrise metaphor, asking that women maintain hope in a “brighter morning.” This “new day is on the horizon” and when it “finally dawns” then “nobody ever has to say ‘Me too’ again.”

Winfrey never asks listeners directly to have a “Me too” moment. Nevertheless, the argument is quite clear and stronger than any other because in this way it reaches many people that are in front of the television that special night .

Using induction through examples and metaphors, Winfrey invites listeners to risk speaking their truth, even if they can’t see the impact of doing so.

I think that this is a useful and important moment because when we use a method like this, I suppose that context helps a lot and the words will remain impressed in audience’s memory and history.

Winfrey makes a reference to the characters she has portrayed throughout her career and how when faced with adversity, they all seemed to share one trait: "the ability maintain hope for a brighter morning even during our darkest nights". She makes a metaphoric use of night and day to signify bad and good times respectively.

She chose to use this metaphor in order to signify the dawn of a new era in which abuse and harassment towards women will no longer be tolerated or excused. In this case, Winfrey implies that the current state of affairs regarding sexual abuse and harassment, especially in the entertainment industry, is like the night, dark and grim. The #metoo movement is represented by the sun in the horizon, as it is meant to signify the social and cultural change that is envisioned.

The metaphor used is very effective because she manages to both acknowledge the current state of the situation and convey a sense of hope for the future.

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explanation:

"character is what you are in the dark." dwight lyman moody, in this very witty quotation of his, states we act and think differently when we are "in the dark", that is, when the spotlight is not on us and everyone can see us and consequently judge us. when reading, we tend to be sympathetic to some characters and their dilemmas. by being so, we are saying to ourselves that we agree with those characters' acts and choices, even if they are morally questionable if we have common sense in mind. dwight lyman moody's quotation applies very well to "crime and punishment", by   19th century russian writer fiodor dostoyevsky. raskolnikov, the main character, a former law student who spends his days reflecting upon life and its misery, draws a fatal conclusion: mankind is divided in two main categories: ordinary and extraordinary people. the first are the ones who lead a run-of-the-mill existence and are full of imperfections; the latter are the ones who are spiritually superior, the ones who always know better, and have the right to judge the ordinary ones, as well as eliminate them if for common good. raskolnikov considers himself as belonging to the extraordinary category and decides to kill an old lady who is a money lender and in whose house he rents a small room. raskolnikov compares himself to napoleon, who had the undeniable right to execute tons of people during the war in order to save his nation. of course what the main character decides to do is a horrendous crime, but as readers we feel it is the right thing for him to do, since the victim is a mean old woman who only thinks about money and keeps humiliating her younger sister. what one experiences is a mixture of sympathy and empathy for the character, even though he decides to commit homicide, which is not at all accepted or tolerated by civilized citizens. however, since readers are "in the dark", they allow themselves to feel in ways they would probably never dare to confess to anyone, no matter how nasty or vicious a character can be. after all, they are just reading and doing no harm. in other words, readers are in the dark and can be who they are without being judged.