Through a wide variety of rhetorical devices the orator, Wiesel, attempts to instill a form of guilt into his audience, as he makes his desperate plea to the American people, and to the president, to take a stand against the great evil he witnessed. Wiesel uses apostrophe, juxtaposition, and causal analysis to ensure he effectively drives his message home. He implements them each in their own way to ensure the necessary ethos and pathos is built so that Mr. Wiesel can sway his audience to his opinion, and ultimately encourage them cancel visit to Bitburg, achieving his final rhetorical goal. Juxtaposition plays an essential role throughout the oration in evoking pathos, more specifically guilt …show more content…
Wiesel uses it cunningly as his main tool to force an action. Using this technique to accomplish his goals is interesting, as instead of using this to build ethos for himself, he uses it to draw attention to and bolster the ethos of Reagan's position, President of the United States. Wiesel begins by expressing admiration for the great achievements of the American people , however, he quickly transitions to nearly exclusively referring to the head of state himself, throughout the address. The effect is a shift in credit for all these deeds to the president, and effectively personifies him as a representative of American values, "I know of your commitment to humanity, Mr. President". While it may seem like he is buttering Reagan up, he's not. What Wiesel is really doing is holding him accountable for his decision. Showered in praise and punted up onto the moral high ground, the president is now forced to reconcile this visit with the values of the nation, rather than political objectives. What Wiesel has done is trapped him, and now he presses his advantage, using calculated diction to ensure this is no wriggling out of this, "The issue here is not politics, but good and evil. And we must never confuse them." Now, if Reagan follows through with the visit after hearing this speech, not only does he looks insensitive, disrespectful, and opposed to the values Wiesel has
Many people have given speeches like his, but the significance of this lecture was the passion he showed and still felt for this Earth, and its people, after all the horrible events that had happened to him in his life. He tells anyone who will listen to his speech to stand up for those who cannot stand up for themselves. Wiesel vocalizes that being a bystander and allowing bad things to happen is just as bad, in his mind, as being the person who actually does those bad things. Elie Wiesel says, “In a way, to be indifferent to that suffering is what makes the human being inhuman.” Through his speech he tries to get anyone that is willing to listen to stop just accepting that the world is evil. He tells them to try and change it. The audience in the room he was speaking to never stood up and applauded. Instead, the audience gave Wiesel their undivided attention, never saying a
President Obama’s Address to the nation was presented on January 5, 2016. His speech was shown on all of the major network stations. The main goal of his speech was to get the point across to the nation about the increasing problem of gun use. His speech really focused on the issue of gun control and if it would benefit the country. Overall, the biggest idea of his Address was that gun control is a large issue in the United States. The way to prevent deaths caused by firearms can be prevented in other ways than taking peoples guns away. The examples brought up in this Address really stood out to me. The use of personal, national, and global examples really made his speech stronger on the topic of effectiveness.
'With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.' In the delivery of Lincoln's 'Second Inaugural,' many were inspired by this uplifting and keen speech. It had been a long war, and Lincoln was concerned about the destruction that had taken place. Worn-out from seeing families torn apart and friendships eradicated, he interpreted his inaugural address. It was March of 1865, and the war, he believed, must come to an end before it was too late. The annihilation that had taken place was tragic, and Lincoln brawled for a closure. The 'Second Inaugural' was very influential, formal, and emotional.
Wiesel’s loss of religion becomes the loss of identity, humanity, selfishness, and decency.... ... middle of paper ... ... This man is obviously beside himself and does not trust anyone except Hitler, his archenemy.
Four and a half months after the Union defeated the Confederacy at the Battle of Gettysburg, Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address on November 19, 1863. He gave the Union soldiers a new perspective on the war and a reason to fight in the Civil War. Before the address, the Civil War was based on states’ rights. Lincoln’s speech has the essence of America and the ideals that were instilled in the Declaration of Independence by the Founders. The sixteenth president of the United States was capable of using his speech to turn a war on states’ rights to a war on slavery and upholding the principles that America was founded upon. By turning the Civil War into a war about slavery he effortlessly ensured that no foreign country would recognize the South as an independent nation, ensuring Union success in the war. In his speech, Lincoln used the rhetorical devices of juxtaposition, repetition, and parallelism, to touch the hearts of its listeners.
President Obama’s Inaugural Speech: Rhetorical Analysis. Barrack Obama’s inauguration speech successfully accomplished his goal by using rhetoric to ensure our nation that we will be in safe hands. The speech is similar to ideas obtained from the founding documents and Martin Luther King’s speech to establish ‘our’ goal to get together and take some action on the problems our country is now facing. As President Barack Obama starts his speech, he keeps himself from using ‘me’, ‘myself’, and ‘I’ and replacing it with ‘we’, ‘us’, and ‘together’ to achieve his ethos.
One rhetorical feature that Elie Wiesel uses effectively is pathos. By including the story of the young boy and his journey, the audience gets a sense of somberness about the events that took place and the situations the Jews were put into. When the young boy says, “Tell me, what have you done with my future? What have you done with your life?” he is questioning Wiesel about the impact he has made in the world. Those questions make the audience wonder what they have done to help the oppressed and all those who have perished. This part of the speech makes the audience feel a sense of grief so strong, that they are moved to help him in his fight against the people who have forgotten and the people who have stayed silent.
Some say a picture is worth a thousand words, others say that language has power. When Elie Wiesel wrote his memoirs regarding his experience with his Holocaust, he had to “conjure up other verbs, other images, other silent cries” (Wiesel, pg. ix). Throughout this book, the imagery used leaves no question in the reader’s mind about the horrors that this man experienced. He did not have to create a new language, but he did combine aspects of our current language that are not often combined. His word choice and use of subtle description made his message in this book clearer than any picture ever could.
It takes a certain kind of voice to connect an audience to a story, and Wiesel was able to gain that voice from the relationship he carried
Would it be wrong if someone were to watch a bank robbery and not call any type of authority to stop the crime from going any further? Yes, as the people around that are taking no action to stop it would be endangering other people's lives. Elie Wiesel, tells his story of the atrocities that have happened throughout his life that have taken place in concentration camps in World War II. The “Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech” describes what Wiesel thinks of as a violation of human rights in the concentration camp. Taking no action to something that is a crime or to something morally wrong is not what should be approved by this society.
As the speech, more forwards with the issue of Indifference, Wiesel states more personal experience of how indifference split his community to represent addition proof of the negative side of indifference to gain credibility. Nevertheless, he hypothesized that if the nation knew what was having the would have intervene as soon as possible therefore we reach a state when he had proclaimed that if only Americans had bomb those railways just once, they all could have been saved. Here Wiesel body movements turned to a throw down fist as the sense of a tone change appears as disappointed. This Historical fact that lead to the body movement was use to symbolize that all the Americans look over anything that affects them and not others. Wiesel suddenly mentions Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his actions towards this
Wiesel appeals to logos, ethos, and pathos in Night. The reader’s logic is not so much directly appealed to, but indirectly the description of the events causes the reader to...
We Shall Overcome Rhetorical Analyses Throughout the history of the United States, racial discrimination has always been around our society. Many civil rights movements and laws have helped to minimize the amount of discrimination towards every single citizen, but discrimination is something that will not ever disappear. On March 15, 1965, Lyndon Baines Johnson gave a speech that pointed out the racial injustice and human rights problems of America in Washington D.C. He wanted every citizen of the United States to support his ideas to overcome and solve the racial injustice problems as a nation. Throughout the speech, Lyndon Johnson used several rhetorical concepts to persuade the audience.
In 1729, Jonathan Swift published a pamphlet called “A Modest Proposal”. It is a satirical piece that described a radical and humorous proposal to a very serious problem. The problem Swift was attacking was the poverty and state of destitution that Ireland was in at the time. Swift wanted to bring attention to the seriousness of the problem and does so by satirically proposing to eat the babies of poor families in order to rid Ireland of poverty. Clearly, this proposal is not to be taken seriously, but merely to prompt others to work to better the state of the nation. Swift hoped to reach not only the people of Ireland who he was calling to action, but the British, who were oppressing the poor. He writes with contempt for those who are oppressing the Irish and also dissatisfaction with the people in Ireland themselves to be oppressed.
Mr. Wiesel’s speech had a singular quote that stands out to many and it is: “Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.” This statement relates to many parts of the speech with the help of his word choice and use of rhetorical devices. His speech was based on people not staying silent in situations where they should speak out and help people who can’t do it for themselves. Elie Wiesel’s speech has helped many people be able to help the victims and tormented people by helping them not stay quiet, and instead take