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Rhetorical Analysis Of The Great Dictator

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Has greed taken over the world so much? To the point where other humans take over someone else’s life, because it makes people feel better about themselves? Have humans taken away the basic human rights of other people to gain control over the world. In Charlie Chaplin’s film, The Great Dictator, he gives a speech when they call him dictator of the world, and although he may have just been acting, his words rang true. Everyone has to fight for freedom, untie to free the world, to progress together, to free all men. This is a very effective speech, because it capture the audience attention, and in a way plays with their emotions, almost tricking them into believing every word that Charlie Chaplin says is the truth.He makes great points about why the world should work …show more content…

Even though this speech was given in the 1930’s, it highlights the main problems that are wrong with the world. In his speech, Charlie Chaplin knew how to reach the audience’s emotions by connecting himself to the words he was saying. Charlie Chaplin showed the emotion he had through his facial features, and the way his voice varied throughout his speech. He also reached his audience by telling them they have the power to change and free the world, and he actually believed it. He uses many rhetorical devices, such as, addressing the soldiers directly after they had already been to war telling them not to give into brutes (figure of speech), “I should like to help everyone, jew, gentile, black, and white” (repetition), and “as long as men die, liberty will never perish” (parallelism). He uses repetition of words to get his point across, and parallelism to show how our liberty is not really free, gaining his audience's attention. “As long as men die, liberty will never perish.” this quote is saying as long as there are men fighting for our freedom, their will be freedom and

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