The Kings Speech by Tom Hooper is based on King George IV of Britain who struggles and failures to speak without stammering. A vocal therapist named of Dr. Lionel assists him with his burden to stop stammering. Dr. Lionel finally gives him the courage and tools to help him present a well spoken speech.
There are several communication concepts that Dr. Lionel uses for the king to help him overcome his fear. The first concepts used in the film are verbally and non verbally communication. The king comes to terms that Communication is inescapable not only verbal but nonverbal due to the use of signs and symbols, we express with our body known as body language. Communication verbally and non verbally are critical to how the characters interact with each other throughout the film.
In the beginning of the film, King George attempts to avoid Lionel so he does not have to confront him directly, but Lionel forces himself on the King until the King raises his voice and clearly states his point. The King expresses the way he feels about how important it is for him to speak on behalf of the people. This scene resulted in good communication, and allowed George King to motivate himself towards delivering his speech to the people. During this scene George King not only uses verbal and non verbal communication, but he uses the concept avoiding style, an approach to conflict which tries to manipulate circumstances so that conflict does not surface.
Communication can involve a motivational push and take relationships for a person when he or she is dealing with something passionately. During the film, Lionel used motivation augments to help King George to understand what it means to be a king. Lionel makes a point to King George tha...
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...s people not feeling forced. However, between the therapist Lionel and King Gorge there was a vary dominance roles and relationship dynamics. In the beginning of the movie, the two characters did not get alone very well, but by the end of the film they created a close bond.
Lionel not only teaches King George how to communicate, but he always teaches him a number of implied rules that a person much follow when being a King or when publicly speech, There are certain things that Lionel informs King George to know that are acceptable and things that are unacceptable.
The King Speech message behind the film is the struggles one can face when communicating clearly and how to overcome those fears. When a person is confident, that confidences will overcome the crowd, and Lionel the therapist helped King George have confidents and help him find his own voice.
I Have a Dream; a speech given by King in front of the Washington Memorial
Key terms will be pointed out and highlighted, as well as described in relation to the examples extracted from the film. To begin with the film started out with a communication climate that was both tense and without verbal communication. This was mainly due to the variance in membership constructs of the characters involved. The character's included the brain Brian, Andrew the athlete, the criminal Bender, the princess Claire, and the basket case Allison. There was a great deal of interesting nonverbal communication taking place between these people. Their reactions and responses to each other demonstrated perceptual errors, which would be shown as the story progressed.
Among his use of logic King also uses the rhetorical appeal of Ethos to show his credibility and explain his reasoning for demonstrations. ...
The physical symbiosis of George and Lennie is beneficial to Lennie but detrimental to George. Although George used to hurt Lennie, Lennie now needs George to bail him out of trouble. Lennie also profits because he needs a person to tell him what to do. “He can’t think of nothing to do himself, but he sure can take orders” (39). Lennie is “a hell of a good worker”(22) and able to “put up a four-hundred pound bale” (22) but is likely to get himself in trouble without George’s protective influence. George likes Lennie but would be better off without him because “you (Lennie) can’t keep a job and you lose me ever’ job I get” (11). Lennie hinders George while George helps Lennie.
Dr. King is an emotional, inspiring and strong speaker. His " I Have A Dream" speech tugs a deep root war of emotions in every American’s heart; therefore, this speech is the perfect display of pathos. Even though pathos overwhelm logo and ethos, they also very much present in his speech.
King utilises Aristotle’s Art of Rhetoric, a persuasion technique, one of which is pathos. It refers to the mode of utilizing human emotions. King portrays the hardship that Negroes undergo due to racism by using strong adjectives and metaphors that indeed create emotions. For example, King elaborates the state of the African Americans as being “crippled” by the “manacles of segregation” and “chains of discrimination.” Through this, King depicts that fact that the Negroes are undergoing unbearable sufferance; as if the Negroes had committed a crime and have to be restrained in cells with no freedom like caged animals ...
George uses his native tongue and although his partner does not understand the words he uses, he understands the overall tone of the conversation, even going so far as to ask if his wife keeps him on a short leash. While the two men are different in appearance and their native languages are not the same, the audience sees them growing a lot closer than they ever thought possible.
In part one, Petersen paints a picture of how he became interested in the topic of communication. He also describes major problems that all communicators have in common. Since he grew up in an environment full of communication deficiencies, it drove him to clarify issues that were common to all communicators. One of the foundational concepts to Petersen’s book is the nature of communication. Petersen called communication the lubrication designed to keep functions of stomach, heart, and head working separately and together. The stomach is the source of feeling words, the heart is the source of perspective words, and the head is the source of our perception of facts. Without these three elements working together, communication becomes deficient. In my experience and understanding how this concept of thinking and feeling affects mine and others people relationships goes a long way towards reducing disagreement and disconnection.
Even though they both achieve their goal of captivating their audiences’ attention, they achieve it differently. Whereas X achieves it by using a conversational style, King achieves it by using a sophisticated style. King has respect to the audience to whom he is addressing; therefore, his rhetoric needs to reflect that respect; the respect that the people from God deserve. In order for him to be taken seriously by the clergymen, he must show them that he is one of them through his writing. We can see how King reflects his respect to them when he writes, “Since I feel that you are men of genuine good will and that your criticisms are sincerely set forth…” His respect is accompanied with a sophisticated tone which makes him stand out and shows his audience the type of person who he really is. As King writes: “On sweltering summer days and crisp autumn mornings I have looked at the South 's beautiful churches with their lofty spires pointing heavenward.” Over all, his rhetoric is focused, addressed, and specifically used towards his audience; to show the clergymen that they all held the same position and
An effective if not intended technique of King's is his countless source of quotes from past respectable people w...
In the film The King’s Speech, directed by Tom Hooper the character Lionel is very supportive of Bertie. Bertie has a stammer problem in which Lionel assists Bertie with overcoming. This shows how Lionel supports Bertie throughout his his journey of overcoming his stammer. We see this supportive relationship through the use of dialogue. When Bertie and Lionel were at Westminster Abbey Lionel said to Bertie “You have such perseverance Bertie,
In King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, he uses rhetorical strategies to capture his audience and to keep their attention as well. One style that Dr. King used when he delivered his speech was Ethos, which is establishing his own credibility to
The most common rhetorical device used in the speeches was an anaphora. An anaphora is a phrase that is repeated frequently. King repeated multiple phrases in all three speeches evaluated. In “I Have a Dream”, King repeats the phrase “one-hundred years later”. He uses this phrase in emphasize that much time had gone by and yet, there still hadn’t been change. Martin Luther King Jr. said, “But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free.”. King also uses allusions like “... we’ve come to our nations capital to cash a check” and “... the bank of justice is bankrupt”. This helps give the audience a better imagine of what King was referring to. In “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop”, he used an abundance of anaphors. The phrase “I would” was repeated seven times. He talks about how if God asked him what age he’d like to live in he gave many places and people he would want to see. King ended each place he’d go with “I won’t stop there”. It is thought that this was Kings’ way of saying he wasn’t going to give up on fighting for what is right. He continues with saying he is thankful to be in the 20th century so he could fight for a cause. There was also an example of antithesis, which is making a connection between two ideas or things. He used the famous words from J.F.K “We have nothing to fear but fear itself.” In “A Time to Break Silence”, an anaphora was also used. King used
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.
Overall, Martin Luther King’s purpose of this speech was to unite African Americans and Caucasians to fight together for the same cause, equal rights for all people no matter the color of their skin. To successfully convey this purpose, King employed several tools of persuasion in his speech. He did indeed present an example of what could qualify as the "greatest demonstration" of arguments for true freedom for all Americans. He employed the techniques of ethos, pathos and logos with such skill that his audience likely was only aware of a single steering man towards a national unity.