Abigail Adams wrote to her husband, John Adams, urging him to “remember the women” when making the new laws for the country. She used multiple examples of charged diction to persuade John Adams to give women rights. Also, for women to be seen as more than property to a man and to have control over their own lives.
Back in 1776 women had no rights and were seen as no more than a man's possessions. Abigail Adams saw a way to change this and fight for the freedom she deserved and pushed her husband to do the same. She wrote to her husband, “Do not put such unlimited power in the hands of the husbands. Remember, all men would be tyrants if they could.” Abigail Adams used the charged diction to highlight that all men would become “tyrants” with
