Marx, King of Rhetoric Appeals Groucho Marx begins his letter to the Warner Brothers with hits and jabs on their illogical point of view on their use of the word “Casablanca” in their new movie title. Both the Warner and Marx brothers address the issue with two separate tones that clearly support their arguments. As the two go back and forth, the letter written by a Marx brother reveal not only a clear picture of their point of view but as well as an extremely persuasive one through his use of rhetorical appeals. With a comical tone, Marx uses his humor and wittiness to shame the Warner Bros. In his letter he starts off saying, “I had no idea that the city of Casablanca belonged to Warner Brothers.” Here he uses tone to create humor which shows that he is …show more content…
He says, “Now Jack, how about you?.... I can think of two other Jacks-- there was Jack of “Jack and the beanstalk” and Jack the Ripper”. Marx addresses the Warner Brothers on a first name basis to show that he is directly talking to them and to also show that they can calm the word “Casablanca” like property because even their first names are names that others have used as a title before them. Marx then targets another brother, “As for you Harry, you probably sign your checks sure in the belief that you are the first Harry of all time and that all other Harrys are impostors. Offhand i can think of two Harrys that preceded you.. Lighthorse Harry of Revolutionary fame and a Harry Appelbaum”. This only emphasizes Marx's point, by using a repetition of many others who have come before them and had their names first. It gives the audience a clear picture of this situation from the Marx brothers point of view. The audience then sees the hypocrisy though the reappearance of their names being used by others, tying it back to supporting their claim on the Warner Brothers having a ridiculous and irrational
Many characters have hopes and dreams which they wish to accomplish. Of Mice and Men has two main characters that go through obstacles to get what they want. In the beginning it is George and Lennie running away trying to get a job. Once both George and Lennie have a job they try to accomplish their dreams. Unfortunately they both can't get their dreams to come true since lennie does the worst and George has to shoot Lennie. Steinbeck uses characterization, foreshadowing, and symbol as rhetorical strategies to make George's actions justified.
Casablanca was directed in an era almost entirely dedicated to propaganda, as far as the film industry is concerned. The movie promoted America and the Allies similar to most films of the time, but it did so in a much different manner. The story told in Casablanca follows the main character, Rick, through his personal affairs and love tango with another lead character, Ilsa Lund. The film begins with Rick alone running his saloon based in Casablanca, in which he seems very indifferent to other people’s affairs, and comes off as very exclusive. He is delivered letters of transit by a man named Ugarte, which are nearly priceless to any refugee desiring to flee to the United States or another unoccupied country. Rick continues to act disinterested, reluctantly agreeing to hide the documents. He holds onto them even after Ugarte is killed for having stolen the letters, although there did not seem to be an...
In 1982, the journalist Chuck Ross, in an experiment for Film Comment, mailed the script of Casablanca to 217 agencies under a different title and under a different authorship name. Although many rejected it for external reasons, eighty-one agencies read it and of those, fifty-three did not recognize it as the classic. But here’s the cherry on top: forty-one agencies criticized the iconic, Oscar-winning script with harsh words. One wrote, “Story line is thin. Too much
I chose this word because the tone of the first chapter seems rather dark. We hear stories of the hopes with which the Puritans arrived in the new world; however, these hopes quickly turned dark because the Purtains found that the first buildings they needed to create were a prison, which alludes to the sins they committed; and a cemetery, which contradicts the new life they hoped to create for themselves.
...o survive and flee the inevitable evil. With World War II raging, viewers in the United States could feel the fear and anxieties as well as compassion for the characters. Although some movies can be rewritten to obtain a better effect over the viewers, Casablanca cannot be redone. The mere fact that the evil of the day was a reality of the time prevents this movie from ever having the same effect on the audience.
Karl Marx 's writing of ‘The Communist Manifesto’ in 1848 has been documented by a vast number of academics as one of the most influential pieces of political texts written in the modern era. Its ideologically driven ideas formed the solid foundation of the Communist movement throughout the 20th century, offering a greater alternative for those who were rapidly becoming disillusioned and frustrated with the growing wealth and social divisions created by capitalism. A feeling not just felt in by a couple of individuals in one society, but a feeling that was spreading throughout various societies worldwide. As Toma highlights in his work, Marx felt that ‘capitalism would produce a crisis-ridden, polarized society destined to be taken over by
When reviewing and annotating Groucho Marx’s letter to the Warner Brother. The speaker (a student) describes the type of wording and motions Marx write in the letter to the Warner Brother concerning about the title they choose to name their movie after. Clearly, the speaker chooses the side of Marx, as she gathers evidence in the letter to answer the question, why? She acknowledge Marx wording to be humorous and sarcastic, yet also including phrases like, “jabs and feint” to show that Marx is trying to defend himself with a style of boxing while facing his opponent, the Warner Bro. I can agree with her evidence because she has done some research into the situation, while mentioning, “In the two letters that follows.” This shows
in context of the period that Marx was writing in; at the end of the
There are a number of things that can be improved in the world, especially in the United States. In his revolutionary speech, Noah Braun declares his independence from homework and offers a variety of examples to support his argument. In addition to supporting evidence, Braun uses specific elements of language and individual style in his writing. By declaring independence from homework, it is evident that Braun’s intended audience is anyone in school that receives homework on a daily basis; however, the supporting evidence used shows the reader that the target audience is specifically high school students. According to Braun, “We are involved in a variety of clubs, members of various sports teams, and a number of students have nightly
Bernard Marx is an intriguing character in the book Brave New World. At the beginning of the book, he is a very main character, but as the book goes on he is put more and more into the background of the story. The reason for this can be explained by the way his character changes as the book progresses. Aldous Huxley makes an interesting point by showing how a person can be changed by obtaining something he desires. It makes the readers wonder whether success would change them in the same way or if they would be able to maintain their character.
Robert B. Ray categorizes Casablanca as "the most typical" American film. Ray uses Casablanca as a tutor text for what he calls the formal paradigm of Classical Hollywood as well as the thematic paradigm that addresses the conflict between isolationism and communitarian participation. The film is typical in its appropriation of an official hero Laszlo, who stands for the civilizing values of home and community, and an outlaw hero Rick, who stands for individu...
During 1931, a second grand war begin with national powers uniting together. Many nations instantly took arms, but the US decided to stay neutral. As a result, European countries established a new flourishing fear of being overthrown by eastern communist foes(“World”). Then the dreadful event on December 6, 1941, caused the US to reconsider its own stance on the war. Allied Powers realized their opportunity to use Pearl Harbor to gain a chance to determine their own fate in war. On December 26, 1941, the United Kingdom’s Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, presented a speech eventually known as “Masters of Our Fate” to the US Senate and the House of Representatives(“Winston”). Through the use of esoteric rhetorical questions, vivid metaphors,
Since 1989, when the Berlin Wall fell and Eastern European Communism came to an end, many of those who have lived through or bore witness to communism published their experiences to the public through media. These personal accounts tell, for the most part, of repressive and manipulative governments that constantly abused their power. Since the original goal for communism was equality, the East German government clearly corrupted the hopes that Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels had for the future of the Eastern European government and society.
Bernard Marx an Alpha plus specialist in sleep teaching is an example of a character that changes in the brave new word. He changes from a character that symbolized individuality to a character that just wanted to desperately belong to the society. At the beginning of the novel he seemed to be very different from the society, he acts like a rebel trying to battle against the order of things. He seemed to be an “individual” in the first few chapters. For example On his first date with Lenina with lenina he says ” I’d rather be myself. ‘Myself and nasty .Not somebody else, however jolly”(77). He wanted to be something else different from the rest of the society. However we see that his root concern is to be socially acceptable and not really about becoming an individual. In chapter 6 Bernard shows signs of undergoing a change in his character. When the Director summoned Bernard to his office for being unorthodox, Bernard goes on to brag to his friend Helmholtz Watson on his victory over the director when he says” I simply told him to go to the bottomless past and marched out of the room and that was that “(85). We get the sense that Bernard’s victory wasn’t so much about personal integrity as it was social acceptance. Finally, his character undergoes a c...
This theory of Marx's shared meanings relates somewhat to his theory on the division of labor in society. The ruling ideas that are brought upon in the capitalist mode are not natural, they are made up by the elite through what is being produced. The elite have plenty of time to think, they are left with doing the mental work. While the worker has no time to think because he is ...