A Comparison of King's Themes and Techniques with Woodgate's
Woodgate chose the topic of conflict between today's youths as it is a
issue about which he feels passionate and which the audience and later
readers could relate to and understand.
'We need to fight this oppression, which has now become an everyday
occurrence in our society.' Woodgate's techniques are very similar to
King's, however, I feel that King's unwavering certainty and ambition
in his dynamic and influential vocabulary is more effective in
motivating the audience and later readers, 'As we walk, we must make
the pledge that we shall march ahead. We cannot turn back!'
Both Woodgate and King have a plentiful supply of imagery in their
speeches to grasp attention and create interest. Woodgate describes
the hostility and jeering as 'vicious, rabid hyenas' and similarly,
King depicts racial injustices as "quicksands" in "the valley of
despair."
King's "Promised Land" speech contrasts dramatically with his 'I have
a dream' speech and Woodgate's "We shall overcome" speech. He appears
to be telling almost a life story - it seems to be sombre and
apprehensive, "I may not get there with you" and "But it doesn't
matter with me now." 'Did he know he was going to get killed?" These
were the enquiring words of M.E. Dyson who wrote a biography of King.
In the last paragraph of "The Promised Land", King's sentences are
short and abrupt, contrasting from the eloquent, flowing prose of the
rest of the speech, "And I've looked over. I've seen the promised
land." This provides emphasis and contrast. This is one of Woodgate's
more prominent techniques, for example, "This issu...
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...hasise a point which
the speech-maker feels strongly about, by referring to personal, local
place names.
Humour is a strong characteristic in Woodgate's speech, used to warm
the recipients, encouraging them to share an affinity with him. We can
see this when he pointedly refers to Romford as a den of iniquity and
uses the term "mummy's boys" to describe one of the youth categories.
Alliteration is also a common occurrence in all of the speeches.
Woodgate talks about, 'murky mud-flats' 'drunken dope-addicts' 'hyenas
of hostility' and King mentions 'symbolic shadow' 'dark and desolate'
'marvellous new militancy.'
Woodgate proposes possible solutions and preventions and ways of
averting conflict and violence whereas King in his 'I have a dream'
speech does not suggest answers. He merely imagines a better future.
In literature, fictional stories can teach characters important lessons needed for their future. The Once and Future King, by T.H. White, tells the story of how the main character, Arthur, reaches his full potential of protecting and supporting his country. All of the knowledge Arthur learns in his youth is key in developing his skills and intellect. In the story Arthur has several unique learning experiences presented by his magical tutor, Merlyn. Learning from Merlyn’s lessons allows Arthur to lose the innocence of childhood and evolve into a wise and powerful king.
The Report of King’s “Letter From Birmingham Jail,” a letter addressing eight Alabama Clergymen, depicts King’s response to their public. During the time King articulated his response, Birmingham Jail had imprisoned him for not following the court order to cease his protests against segregation. In his rebuttal against their public statement King masters the art of an argument. King’s mastery of argument shines through when looking at his capability of addressing every side of an argument, his ability to use analogies, and his easily understandable repetition.
As King stood before the massive crowd of Americans, he urged the citizens of the United States to turn their hatred of colored people into a hatred of the true evil: racism. King continually states that the black people are being held back by the “chains of discrimination.” King uses this to make the audience feel that the black people are in great misfortune. King describes the white people as swimming in an “ocean of material prosperity” while the black people are stranded on a “lonely island of poverty.” Here, King magnificently uses the Declaration of Independence and implores the audiences’ emotions on all levels, wielding pathos as his Rhetorical weapon. Prejudices surrounded the nation and caused fear, anger, panic, rage, and many more intense emotions. All people who lived in this time period experienced these prejudices in one form or another. King takes the idea of these prejudices and describes a world without all of the hate and fear. He imagines an ideal world that all races, not just black people, would find more pleasant and peaceful. Moreover, King references how the United States has broken their promise to the men of color by refusing them the basic human rights granted in the foundational documents of the country: the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.
The Victorian Era started when Queen Victorian inherited the throne in 1837 and lasted till 1901. Over those years, England underwent “technological, commercial, and social developments that fundamentally changed English life, replacing the world into which Victoria was born with one that looks much more familiar to the twenty-first-century eye.” (Nelson 1). According to Houghton “never before had men thought of their own time as an era of change from the past to the future.”(1). England was in the period of transition, the change from the Middle Ages to the modern period. The old doctrines and institutions were attacked and modified and a new order was proposed. The Victorians had to live between two words,
Just under 17 minutes, King influenced the generations and generations of people about his dream for America’s future and planted seeds of anti-racism and racial equality in them. King has employed three rhetorical elements of ethos, pathos and logos which are reinforced with metaphors in his ground-breaking speech.
Literary; associated with literary works or other formal writing; having a marked style intended to create a particular emotional effect. Term; a word or phrase used to describe a thing or to express a concept, especially in a particular kind of language or branch of study. Device; a thing made or adapted for a particular purpose. Literary terms/devices is defined as the typical structures used by writers in their works to convey his or her messages in a simple manner to the readers. When employed properly, the different literary devices help readers to appreciate, interpret and analyze a literary work. Hello, I am Miya Cole and today I will explain to you my four literary terms/devices.
Theme (in literature) - range of events, life events presented in work in organic connection with the problem that arises from them and requires reflection. The theme of the artwork is different from everyday events of reality that it describes a phenomenon perceived, seen by the artist. Subject inherently linked to specific sensual, creative thinking, tends to the story as developments involving characters. Thus, the theme, plot, character, problem is the different faces holistic vision of human reality, finding hidden essence, the meaning of life. With this firmly connected object-subject relationship is born the idea of aesthetic work, which expresses the author 's estimation shown his understanding of the issue as query-problem.
Tediously, people take appearances at face value; mistaking salt for sugar. In Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Hound of the Baskervilles, Doyle delineates on the theme of ‘appearances can be deceiving’ by pursuing the idea that people should investigate people and their relationships before coming to their final conclusions about them. This is demonstrated in The Hound of the Baskervilles when Doyle shows how people can use other people to deceive people, people can manipulate others with sheer charm, and that people can easily lie about themselves. All of these concepts apply to the great antagonist of The Hound of the Baskervilles… Stapleton.
In his speech, King uses different types of rhetorical guidelines. He uses them to show his points in a better and easier way to understand .At the beginning he successfully uses a mythos. A mythos has a deep explanatory or symbolic resonance for the audience. In mentioning the Emancipation Proclamation he shows that our ancestors signed a contract, in which all human beings are created equal, and therefore should be treated in the same way as others. He also visualizes his ideas with visual examples, which everybody can understand. “America has given the black population a bad check, which has come back marked insufficient funds”( I Have a Dream)
-The curse of the Baskervilles all started with Hugo Baskerville. At about the time of the “Great Revolution,” Hugo fancied a local yeoman's daughter. One day, Hugo kidnapped her and kept her at his house. Luckily the young girl escaped from the mansion. However, he was so outraged at her escape that he made a deal with the devil to release his hound to hunt her down.
In Martin Luther King’s I Have a Dream speech, King makes use of an innumerable amount of rhetorical devices that augment the overall understanding and flow of the speech. King makes the audience feel an immense amount of emotion due to the outstanding use of pathos in his speech. King also generates a vast use of rhetorical devices including allusion, anaphora, and antithesis. The way that King conducted his speech adds to the comprehension and gives the effect that he wants to rise above the injustices of racism and segregation that so many people are subjected to on a daily basis.
On the day of his “I Have a Dream” speech, King stood upon the steps of the Lincoln Memorial located in the heart of our nation’s capital. This location was essential to King’s success because it was a symbol of our nation’s historic efforts to abolish the enslavement of African-Americans; an act which was made possible due to the valiant efforts of Abraham Lincoln. As the preponderance of the speech began, King made reference to the former president in what Peter Paris said was a “Declaration proclaimed to America on behalf of all African people”. King stated, “Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice” (I Have a Dream 2). Through these words, he was able to mimic the tone and style of Lincoln’s famous Gettysburg Address while also evoking remembrance of the nation’s harsh past. The signing of one such bill, the Emancipation Proclamation, was the first time in history that African-Americans were able to progress in the social order. King tied this into his argument by introducing the concept that other laws could be enacted in order to allow the African-American population to continue
Lewis Carroll’s life as a writer and as a person can be described to some people as secretive or peculiar. He was born in Daresbury, Cheshire, England in 1832 under the name Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. All the books that he published was wrote with the pen name of Lewis Carroll. Being a mathematician, photographer, and novelist, he was a much respected man in England. At an early age he excelled in mathematics and went to college at Christ College. Even though he was a prestige mathematician, Lewis Carroll in known for his nonsense style of writing. Critics have tried to guess of reasons why this style was plagued with Lewis’s writing but none are guaranteed true. On the other hand, some
King begins his speech by referencing important historical documents such as the Constitution of the United States and the Emancipation Proclamation. This is emphasized when he states, ”Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation...But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free”. Which shows how even though the Emancipation Proclamation freed the African Americans from slavery, they still are not free because of segregation. He then transitions to the injustice and suffering that the African Americans face. He makes this