Rhetorical Analysis Of Charles Chaplin's Speech By Charlie Chaplin

Rhetorical Analysis: Cesar Chavez speech to the Commonwealth Club (1984) On November 9, 1984 in San Francisco, California, Cesar Chavez gave his speech to the Commonwealth Club of California. This club is not a profit educational organization based in Northern California and it’s the oldest and largest public affairs forum that puts together events about politics, culture, society, and the economy. Cesar Chavez was a labor leader and civil rights activist who was known to help others, especially farm workers. He spoke out against the inequality these people endured to labor and living conditions.

Immediately following the death of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968, Robert Kennedy's job was to inform his African American audience of King's passing. After realizing that the crowd’s initial reaction would be the desire to revolt violently, Kennedy knew he needed to subdue their immediate emotional reactions and make them respond rationally and peacefully. The speech Kennedy gave was crucial in the maintenance of peace in tragic times. In order to prevent revolts, Kennedy established common ground with his audience, he created an empathetic tone, and references a Greek poet to instill peace in the minds of his audience.

Throughout history, individuals have fought for more justifiable working conditions. Florence Kelley, a social worker and reformer, fought to gain more adequate working conditions for the children of the United States. At this time nearly twenty percent of American workers were under the age of sixteen. Kelley delivered a speech in Philadelphia on July 22, 1905, during the convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, that strived for more fair-minded hours, rather than the long, unhealthy, and tedious shifts thats children were put through overnight. Kelley utilizes both appeals to logic and appeals to emotion, in order to rally up her audience in joining her to fight for more rational, more healthy, and more just hours.

The message that is sent across in this speech is also something that makes it so effective. Wiesel’s goal is not only to inform the people of the horrible events of the Holocaust, but also a call to action. This call to action is to end indifference throughout the world. Wiesel tries throughout the speech to inspire his audience within the White House, as well as the people of the world to act in times of human suffering, injustice, and violence. Within this call to action, Wiesel argues that indifference is an action worse than any other. Even anger, according to Wiesel, is a more positive action than indifference. “Even hatred at times may elicit a response. You fight it. You denounce it. You disarm it. Indifference elicits no response. Indifference is not a response.” When Wiesel states this simple, yet powerful statement, it forces any listener to consider how negative of an emotion hatred is, then puts indifference well below it. Wiesel also addresses how easy it is for any person to be indifferent. He states, “Of course, indifference can be tempting—more than that, seductive. It is so much easier to look away from victims.” This quote

On April 4, 1968 Robert F. Kennedy began his political campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination in Indiana. Before boarding his plane, Kennedy found out that Martin Luther King, Jr. had been shot in Memphis, Tennessee. At his arrival in Indianapolis, Kennedy was informed that Martin Luther King, Jr. had died from the incident. Kennedy was scheduled to speak to a large African-American audience, and was advised by the Indianapolis Police to not speak. The Chief of Police warned Kennedy that he would not be responsible for whatever may happen, making this speech even more dangerous. Kennedy chose to ignore the warning signs, went into the conference campaign, and spoke to the audience. Robert Kennedy, putting his political aspirations aside, advises the Indianapolis African-American audience not to retaliate to Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination with violence, but with prayer, understanding, and love as Martin Luther King, Jr. taught. This is done through the use of motivational appeals, rhetorical devices, and expressing to the audience a purpose.

In the speech your could actually see his face and see his different expressions and emotions, you could also hear the different tones of voice that he used when talking about different things. During the speech he said a lot of meaningful things, I like when he said, “Indifference, after all, is more dangerous than anger and hatred. Anger can at times be creative. One writes a great poem, a great symphony, one does something special for the sake of humanity because one is angry at the injustice that one witnesses. But indifference is never creative. Even hatred at times may elicit a response. You fight it. You denounce it. You disarm it. Indifference elicits no response. Indifference is not a response.” I think that a lot of people can take this message in very different ways, but his is his opinion and this is what he thinks, and he is trying to get his point across to everybody in that room. When he is speaking he is speaking in his own opinion he doesn’t care what other people think, this is his opinion and he wants other people to try and see in his point of view even if only for just a short time. I think that even though this is what he is thinking he still connected with a lot of other people, he made big connections, even world-wide connections. Also when speaking it is easier to get your point across to the people instead of having to write a book about it, it’s way

Florence Kelley was a United States social worker and reformer who fought successfully for child labor laws and improved conditions for working women. Throughout her speech to the Philadelphia Convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, she stresses the importance of changing the working conditions that are in place for children. By using child labor as her baseline, Kelley is able to talk about her main point, which is her suggestion for women’s rights with the help of repetition, strong word choice, and opposition.

John Lewis incites his audience to partake in the revolution that has begun; to be active members and not just join for the sake of joining. At this part of his speech Lewis arrives at a call to action by stating, “I appeal to all of you to get into this great revolution” (para 8). Basically, he is encouraging his audience to join the revolution that is already ¨sweeping¨ the nation. Figuratively speaking, he uses “sweeping this nation” (para 8), as a phrase of unity, to persuade his audience to engage in this revolution. The author reminds the audience that this revolution will go to every nation, including the smallest neighborhoods by stating, “stay in the streets of every city, every village and hamlet of this nation until true freedom

In Florence Kelley’s speech she states ”Tonight while we sleep, several thousand little girls will be working in textile mills, all the night through, in the deafening noise of the spindles and the looms spinning and weaving cotton and wool, silks and ribbons for us to buy”(Kelley 18). She delivered this speech in front of the National American Woman Suffrage Association to bring attention to the two million children who are working in order to help support their family. Kelley continues to point out the flaws within the government as their are not many regulations that protect these children. She also talks about women suffrage during the time. For example she expands on how women can not vote and then points out of mother would vote for

Congressman, Robert H. Clancy, in his speech, An “Un-American Bill”: A Congressman Denounces Immigration Quotas, discusses the discrimination of immigrants in America. He stands up for many immigrants and people of immigrant descent in his speech, trying to explain why the congressmen shouldn’t be against them. He uses a passionate, heartfelt tone to appeal to the congressmen’s thoughts. Clancy of An “Un-American Bill”: A Congressman Denounces Immigration Quotas addresses the situation of racial discrimination in America by using personal anecdotes, background research, and concrete facts to back up his argument.

Throughout King’s speech, he uses the rhetorical mode, pathos, to give the audience an ambience of strong emotions such as sympathy. For example, whites had

A president has to have character, right? I mean, if the leader of the free world has no substance, nothing special about him, then how do we as citizens know that he is capable as far as foreign policies go. How do we know that we can trust him to make wise decisions? How do we know that he will tell us the truth? This concept is exactly what fictional president Andrew Shepherd successfully conveys in his “Address to the Press on Bob Rumson and the Crime Bill.” In the movie, The American President, Andrew Shepherd becomes romantically involved with crime bill lobbyist Sydney Ellen Wade. Many characters, including Bob Rumson, believe that the relationship between Shepherd and Wade is hindering the advancement of the country. They

When he turned fourteen, he got a break when he was asked to act in a legitimate stage show as “Billy” in “Sherlock Holmes”. Following that gig, at the age of eighteen, he started a career as a comedian in vaudeville (“Charles Chaplin” 100). In 1912 the troupe traveled to New York, where he was a featured player with the Fred Karno Repertoire Company. Mack Sennet, founder of Keystone Studios, saw him perform one night and decided to take him on at the Keystone Studio and offered Charlie a motion picture contract. Chaplin agreed to appear before the cameras at the termination of his vaudeville commitments in November of 1913 (“Biography of Charlie Chaplin”). He did not know it, but this would be the beginning of his legendary career.

Donald Trump’s speech addressed to the United Nations General Assembly on September 19, 2017 was not effective. Despite the speech having a universal message that is hard to disagree with, you can tell exactly which parts of the speech were written by a speech writer, and which parts of the speech were written by Trump himself. This wouldn’t be an issue if Donald Trump’s inflections weren’t full of fallacies and unnecessary statistics. For example, in the third paragraph, President Trump tries to establish his Ethos by listing improvements in the United States since he took office. But many of these cherry-picked improvements have absolutely nothing to do with him being elected. They also have nothing to do with the general theme of the speech. This speech did have examples of effective rhetorical strategies. However, the bad far outweighs the good in this speech and takes away from the good message it originally had.

The biggest factor about Charlie Chaplin 's speech that really draws people in is its emotional factor. As the great dictator in the film is based off of Adolf Hitler, the format in which Chaplin gives the speech mirrors Hitler 's style. Like most of Hitler 's speeches, The Jewish Barber starts off subtle with a soft and gentle voice saying “We want to help one another, human beings are like that…” The first three paragraphs are given very softly with a touch of sorrow and remorse. Chaplin pitties humanity with words such as “More than