Compare And Contrast Speech To The Virginia Convention

Pathos is a Greek word that means suffering or experience. Pathos is a word that brings pity or sadness that represents an appeal to the audience's emotions.

There are some similarites in both Obama and Washington’s speeches. One way their speeches were similar was because of the audience. Both these presidents had a big crowd. In the speeches, they both talked about the problems in the United States. In the speech Obama said, “Our nation’s economy is badly weakened, as a result of greed and irresponsibility on the part of some, but also the failure of all of us to make hard choices and prepare the nation for a new age.”

The speeches of Franklin D. Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy are both meant to deliver a powerful message. Despite how similar these messages are, there are contrasting ideas that set the speeches apart. The speeches of Franklin D. Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy share similarities in their statements on freedom and the main purposes of the speeches themselves, while differing in historical context.

There have been many great speeches delivered in the past. Some of the best ones demonstrated why our our freedoms, our liberty, and to be united as a country, is so important. John F. Kennedy’s “Inaugural Address” and Martin Luther King Junior’s “I Have a Dream” are both great examples of such historical speeches. Both these speeches have many similarities such as, referencing the past, wanting change to happen, and both desired peace. Yet with all these similarities, each one had a different style, was given to different audiences, and about different topics. In Kennedy’s “Inaugural Address”, he is expressing how the country needs to be united and “…anew the quest for peace” (11), with our enemies. King’s

Martin Luther King Jr. stated, “We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.” This quote illustrates that people need to accept failure and learn from it and never lose pride in what you are doing. Patrick Henry relates to what Martin Luther says because he believes in the same kind of dedication. Henry is trying to convince the people and their president that they need to go to war with Great Britain, but he’s also trying to say that it's not going to be a peaceful war. He needs to get the people to follow what he says, so in his speech he uses a few different techniques to convince them. In Patrick Henry’s famous speech, “The Speech in the Virginia Convention,” he uses repetition, questioning, and allusions to enhance his idea to start war efforts with Great Britain.

I found in the play “Leaving Home” that I could find the use of pathos in various spots. I noticed the definition “an expression or utterance that evokes sadness or sympathy, esp. in a work of literature; a description, passage, or scene of this nature” more than the others. In this text, I could really see the use of pathos being used by the emotionally-loaded language, the emotional examples, the figurative language, and the emotional tone. The actors had a lot going on in just the short time of the play.

Both President George W. Bush and Patrick Henry wrote very similar pieces. Henry delivered a speech known as “Speech to Virginia Convention” to Virginia delegates as to why America should separate from Great Britain. President Bush bush presented a speech “President Bush Outlines Iraqi Threat”, that was broadcasted internationally regarding the decision to use military force against Iraq. As we now know today, both speeches effectively persuaded others. The two are similar through the use of multiple rhetorical devices such as pathos, loaded language and ethos.

The use of rhetorical analysis is very useful to make works appealing and contribute effectively to the author’s purpose. They are used in Patrick Henry’s extemporaneous speech “Give Me Liberty, or Give me Death.” Henry, a revolutionary leader, made this speech at the meeting of the Virginia convention on March 23, 1775. The purpose of this speech was to persuade the delegates of the convention and colonists to form a militia and start war against the British to declare independence. This speech Patrick Henry uses parallelism, pathos, and allusion to persuade the Virginia delegates to go to war against Britain.

In the speech, “Give me Liberty or Give me Death!”, by Patrick Henry and in the excerpt, “Common Sense”, by Thomas Paine, rhetoric is used thoroughly. During the era of these excerpts, war was a significant matter, so Henry and Paine made these excerpts to enlighten and “boost-up” the people and make them ready for war. Both of the excerpts had the qualities to do so, but “Common Sense” uses more rhetorical devices and is more persuasive due to the language he uses, his ability to relate to the people, and showing the faults in other countries to help us realize that we are a strong country and we need to be ready to fight for it.

Historically, Jfk and Patrick Henry were persuasive speakers, and they inspired Americans with their beliefs and values. John F Kennedy with his “Inaugural Address” was speaking to the proud citizens of America, and Patrick Henry’s “speech to the Virginia convention” was focused toward the colonist and leaders of America. They talked about the beliefs, freedom, equality, and achievement and success. While there were similarities in the speeches, there are also differences.

Pathos: It is the use of emotion and affect to persuade the audience. In this appeal, the author creates an emotional statement: “ an overworked single mother may find herself over stressed and fatigued at the end of the day, making

The similarities between their speeches were that they both wanted to be free from the english and for the english to stop with random taxes. Patrick Henry was all about standing firm in what he wanted and he said, “Give me liberty, or give me death.” Which means that he will die trying to get freedom.

President George Bush and Patrick Henry stood before multiple people in hopes of persuading individuals to be on the same side as them. Patrick Henry spoke in front of the Virginia Delegates on March 23, 1775, to tell them why he knows that they should go to war with Great Britain. President George Bush spoke to America one year after 9/11 to persuade congress and all of America to support the war on terror. The Bush and Henry speeches are alike rhetorically because they both use ethos and pathos to persuade their audience, the speeches use powerful language to persuade, and both speeches use allusion to explain their side.

Our perceptions create our reality, and the "Speech in the Virginia Convention" demonstrates Patrick Henry's mastery of understanding this. The more we live life through our experiences the more we are guided to the conclusion that our perception can never gives us an objective reality. Reality is coupled to perception, and perception can be mediated. Certain word can change the way we perceive an idea. A moment can seem powerful or weak depending on the formulation of a sentence, and on the appeal to our ethical thinking, our logical reasoning, our emotion feelings. So again, reality is mediated by perception and perception can be manipulated. Brilliant people--people who change the world--leaders--are said to have a reality distortion

Both Roosevelt’s “Four Freedoms” speech and Kennedy’s inaugural address have the same motive.Both Roosevelt and Kennedy want to fight for peace.However,the most significant difference between them is the different method of attaining peace.The devices they used to deliver their speech is different in various ways.One uses repetition whereas another uses different words to express emotions.