Rhetorical Analysis Of If We Share A Brotherhood Of Man King

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Prompt Warrant 1 Horror films act as an emotional release that feeds the dark, aggressive elements infested whinin Mankind. In his essay, King creates a hypothetical situation when stating, “When we pay our four or five bucks and seat ourselves at tenth-row center in a theater showing a horror movie, we are daring the nightmare. Why? Some of the reasons are simple and obvious. To show that we can, that we are not afraid, that we can ride this rollercoaster.” In his hypothetical situation, King not only compares Roller coasters to horror films, but explain the true reason as to why we choose to perform these bone-shaking actions. To prove that we have courage. To show that “we are not afraid.” But throughout the essay, King inferred that after …show more content…

King controls the black and white picture he created and now only looks at one side of the story as he examines the basic reason as to why we crave horror films. In his first observation, King believes that “If we share a Brotherhood of Man, then we also share an insanity with man.” Instead of presenting his ideas in a simple unrealistic tone, King depicts a picture of violence that is fostered deep within all of us. King suggests that violence, anger and aggression are all emotions we have experienced. The only things that set us apart from animals is the way we act upon these emotions. King conveys the impression that all men and women stand in the same insanity infested in our spirit and mind. King admits that even he experiences these powerful emotions when he states, “For myself, I'd like to see the most aggressive of them... As lifting a truck door and a civilized forebrain and throwing a basket of raw meat to the hungry alligators... It was like Lennon and McCartney who said that all you need is love... As long as you keep the Gators fed.” King observes both the good and evil sides of the human Spirit when stating that ‘all You Need Is love... As long as you keep the Gators fed.’ It's almost as if King places the human spirit in the same category as a wild animal. Animals are contained in a zoo. Their violent behavior is suppressed because they have no reason to feed on prey. Like our spirit, we have no reason to act violently when good behavior is rewarded. King believes that as long as we keep good behavior, it suppresses our inhumane instinct to do wrong or show aggression. We classify anger and aggression as being far from the definition of normalcy. Society will find whatever it can to rule against these

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