In Winston Churchill’s speech “blood, toil, tears, and sweat”, and in Franklin D. Roosevelt's "The Great Arsenal of Democracy", there are many different rhetorical devices and they use them to build an effective argument. Both speeches were written and spoken at different times and different events were going on when the speeches were made, but both speeches are similar in the way that they are constructed and by the devices used in both. In their speeches both Churchill and Roosevelt tried to bring hope to the people during the hard times that the country was going through. Winston Churchill delivered his speech on May 13, 1940, three days after he became prime minister. In Churchill’s speech he wanted to connect with the audience on an emotional level, so he uses many different examples of the rhetorical device pathos. For example, Churchill’s famous quote “I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat”. By saying this, he wants the people to know that, he will give all that he has and he will give as much effort as he can and that’s all that he can offer them. Another example of pathos in the speech is when Churchill said, “We have before us many, many long months of struggle and of suffering”. By saying this, Churchill uses terms such as “us”, “struggle”, and “suffering” to get to the people and to show that the war cabinet crisis wouldn’t be an easy thing to get though out of the rhetorical devices ethos, pathos, and logos, Churchill uses pathos more
Pathos is using emotional appeal to convince your audience. In the opening sentence of the speech we see Pathos being used "Comrades, men of the Red Army and Red Navy" the sentence uses the word "Comrades" to refer to the people in order to invoke a sense of unity and familiarity amongst the people. Another use of Pathos can be found in the sentence "In the fire of war we forged the Red Army" The sentence is recalling a time during Soviet Russia's beginings when the Red Army was being formed, the sentence
Pathos is another word for sympathy. In the speech “People and Peace, not Profits and War,” Chisholm states in lines 5-8, “As a teacher, and as a woman, I do not think I will ever understand what kind of values can be involved in spending $9 billion -- and more, I am sure -- on elaborate, unnecessary, and impractical weapons when several thousand disadvantaged children in the nation’s capital get nothing” (39). Chisholm uses pathos to show her feelings about the children. In his Vietnam speech, Martin Luther King Jr. states, “We have destroyed their two most cherished institutions: the family and the village. We have destroyed their land and their crops. We have cooperated in the crushing of the nation’s only non communist revolutionary political force, the unified Buddhist Church. We have supported the enemies of the peasants of Saigon. We have corrupted their women and children and killed their men” (156). King uses pathos so that the readers agree with his opinions on the Vietnam War. In “Let America be America Again” by Langston Hughes, he calls himself the farmer, the worker, the negro, and the people (1). Hughes wants people to realize how unfortunate he is and he wants people to sympathize with his feelings. Pathos triggers the reader’s emotions. They begin to sympathize with whoever is displaying their feelings. Authors may use this device to help the readers see the situation in their point of
In any powerful speech, the speaker communicates and relates directly to his or her audience. Elie Wiesel does a superb job of doing this in his Perils of Indifference speech, given in April 1999. His use of pathos
The Use of Pathos in this speech is used in a way that affects everyone’s emotions do to the attack on Oahu, Hawaii. Here’s an example of pathos in the speech given, “The attack yesterday on the Hawaiian Islands has caused severe damage to American naval and military forces. I regret to tell you that very many American lives have been lost.” This quote appealed to everyone’s emotion in the U.S. by telling us the damage caused by the Japanese. Everyone in the U.S. are most likely feeling depressed and full of anger towards the Japanese Empire because the military forces and the innocent citizens were attacked and/or killed. With Roosevelt’s statements, the people in the U.S. are feeling more insecure, whereas the president wants to go to war to show other nations that we will defend ourselves.
He also includes a lot of emotional parts throughout the speech this is effective as it may get an emotional response from the audience this happens when he says “Your loved ones were daring and brave” and “It is hard to understand, but sometimes painful things like this happen” this is a good use of pathos as it does connect to the emotional feelings of the viewer.
“Yesterday, December 7th, 1941’” began President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the day following Japan’s fateful attack on Pearl Harbor, resulting in the in the tragic loss of nearly two and a half thousand American lives. A date so famously proclaimed to ‘forever live in infamy,’ and so it has. This inspiring speech to Congress and the American people employed appeals and other techniques in it’s mission to touch America’s heart, both with sympathy and indignation. President Roosevelt’s use of rhetoric is extremely effective in rallying the American people to the cause of entering a war so many were reluctant to support.
With the analysis of rhetorical strategies underway, I would like to discuss the presence of pathos in the speech. Sanger was a very passionate writer, and this allowed her to be absorbed into the paper. I noticed that, in Sanger’s speech, there were many emotionally loaded words. For example:
Lastly, the third rhetorical persuasive appeal of pathos will be explored. Pathos appeals to the audience's emotions and how might they positively agree with the speaker's arguments. In order to understand Winston’s nature the party watched him for many years. They even went as far as to allow him to commit thoughtcrimes- an Orwellian term for holding beliefs that contradict or doubt the party. Examples of this being Winston’s visits to the antique shop, writing in his diary, and any other act of rebellion against Big Brother. To summarize, if logos and ethos are to deal with the mind- then pathos could be said to be more a matter of the heart. Winston realizes this, months after his torture and imprisonment: “He obeyed the Party, but he still hated the Party. In the old days he had hidden a heretical mind beneath an appearance of conformity. Now he had retreated a step further: in the mind he had surrendered, but he had hoped to keep the inner heart inviolate.” (Orwell 280) Despite that externally he obeyed the party-Winston did not resign his inner spirit and rebellion. Which, is not enough, for O’Brien or the party. For this reason, pathos becomes the last step to complete Winston's brainwashing. Henceforth, O’Brien targets the prior relationships he cultivated before his imprisonment. The party’s main aim is to foster hate and mistrust among individuals, especially families- so the only figure or thing they can turn to for love or comfort is Big Brother. Such notions in
The first appeal shown in this speech is pathos when he said "I consider it as nothing less than a question of freedom or slavery". This is an example of Pathos because it has them becoming fearful of being a slave. Another example as when he said "Is it that insidious smile with which our petition has been lately received?" this was the British basically taunting us into war. This is pathos because it was set out by the British to make us look like fools. Based on what I read the pathos in this speech is basically Britain trying to make us feel weak and they are assuming that we are scared of them.
Pathos is simplified as emotion. Emotion is something everyone has, though sometimes, it may get in the way of things that could be more important, but also help make the memories count. In “The Perils of Indifference Speech”, Wiesel states, “Franklin Delano Roosevelt died on April the 12th, 1945, so he is very much present to me and to us.” What Wiesel did by bringing up the president who died 54 years ago, and was one of the reasons that so many Jews died, it is a very powerful thing. He states that he was a great leader, but he is also flawed.
In his second part of his speech he used pathos to try to win the audience.You can tell he uses it because he tries to get the audience emotion tied to what he is talking about. “Indifference,after all is more dangerous than anger and hatred.” With this quote he tries to scare the audience to explain to them how indifference is very dangerous. Him using this type of approach is very effective when trying to convince them. He also uses example of hitler and World War Two and how we overcame nazism and communism in the same century to show how indifference made an impact on the world during that
Churchill uses strong ethos by speaking honestly and telling the truth to the audience. By stating “I now invite the House…to record its approval of the steps taken and to declare its confidence in the new Government." (Churchill, 5). Churchill doesn't make actions until they're approved which he has no dictatorship. Churchill uses logos by making sure his argument was clear, concise, and coordinated. "Let that be realized; no survival for the British Empire, no survival for all that the British Empire has stood for… that mankind will move forward towards its goals." (Churchill, 12) he is stating what will happen to Britain and he is being inspirational and hopeful. Churchill uses pathos by making sure the audience felt the passion in his words and using power phrases and words, "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat." he is grabbing the audience's emotions and show his dedication to the country as a
This excerpt functions with the speech as a whole by giving insight on events mentioned in the speech. The speech always begins with something has affected them badly and then it goes on to explain how things will become better and why. In the excerpt Churchill begins by reminding people that they have a navy and that in the past they have acted in ways that is not beneficial. He says "That was a very serious step to take, because our Territorials had only just been called up and were quite untrained."
Winston Churchill was one of those influential and strong leaders in the last century known for his speeches during war times, he was the prime minister of Great Britain from 1940 up until 1945. Winston was one of those leaders mentioned in history for having a role during the cold war. The cold war occurred after the Second World War, it was between the eastern and the western sides of Europe. A period of political and military tension that took place among the powers of the communist USSR and the democratic USA, where by each tried to reduce the power of the other and therefore this conflict was known as the cold war. Winston Churchill believed in neither communism nor capitalism thus he was one of the very first leaders to raise the idea
Winston Churchill was known as the Prime Minister of Britain during World War Two. He gave many arousing speeches during his time as Prime Minister to boost morale. He was also known for his one-liners and quotes. For example, his response to Nancy Astor’s comment of, “If I was your wife, I would poison your coffee”, was “Madam, if I was your husband, I would drink it”. Another example is,“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty”. This shows that Churchill was able to say very inspirational things. Also, Churchill said some amusing things while he was alive. He once said,“An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last”. This shows that Churchill was very