Rhetorical Analysis: The Guarantee Of Peace By Winston Churchill

In this passage, Winston Churchill attempts to persuade his audience that United States and Britain must mobilize their forces now in preparation to resist military aggression of Nazi Germany and its allies. By emphasizing the moral aggressions by the Nazis and its allies, the author claims that these mobilizations are not unleashing for war, but rather are solely “guarantee of peace”. In order to achieve his goal, the author used various persuasive techniques such as glorifications of actions against injustice, metaphor, and imagery.

The author is mindfully persuasive from the very beginning, alleviating the reader’s anxiety or concerns regards to the usage of military forces. By mentioning that there has never been any progress ever achieved by submission of “organized and calculated violence”, the author made the application of military forces seemingly inevitable. He further justifies the incorporation of militant by glorifying the “spirit of resistance to tyranny and injustice”. His extreme

Although Nazis is the extreme right-wing party, the author compared Nazis to the “communists”, which is direct opposite left wing ideology. This was very considerate manipulation of the author, considering the targeted audience of this essay. Both United States and Britain employed democracy as the ruling system, thus had repellent toward the left wing concepts. Through criticizing the common enemy, the author attempted to create rapport with the readers. The author directly linked communism to the Nazis, amplifying the antipathy of the readers toward the Nazis. This was further supported through the anaphora. The author repeated the same sentence structure of “Like the communists”. If the author wished to make the sentence concise, he could’ve combined all the sentences; however, his repeated sentence structure, continuously exposed the word “communist”, provoking the hatred of the readers toward the