For the speech go to http://www.winstonchurchill.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=878
Many of us know the great Winston Churchill. He gave amazing speeches that motivated the people of Britain to not give up even if Germany was on the brink of defeating them. For example in the speech in the link above he is adressing the people of Britain. He is adressing them at the start of World War. Winston rallies them to not give up, he inspires them with the thought of their children, the future generations. He doesn't say all of this directly but he infers to them with his choice of words. The syntax he uses gives the message that they need to fight to give freedom to the people who will love it the most. As I interpret that it means the people who will come after them.
The people are also under the control of Pathos. The people have made the choice to go to war and Churchill tells them of a time when they will not have have to deal with the German Nazis.
As you may have noticed most speeches, if not all of them, appeal to the peoples Pathos, their feelings. WIth Pathos you can capture the moment and make people feel so "good" that they will cheer for you and follow your words and even fight for their country. Because people have pride and the pride that they have can always be swelled up with the right words. Churchill definitely knew how to do this.
8 comments:
Quote the speech so that we can follow your argument.
Hi Stranger.
I strongly agree with Sherre. Winston Churchill was a huge speech maker and i am sure he made more than one speech. Quote him, be specific and have the speech to back up you beliefs.
Good choice of speaker but I believe that you may need to going in a bit deeper you topic to be able to thoughroughly. The use of quotes will make your statemenets a lot more usefull to us because you told us what he did but we were not able to learn how he did it.
Dear Edwin,
Your topic is really interesting and I like how you talked about Churchill and how he motivated people to not be afraid and fight to grow. He does use a lot of appeals to convine the people which shows the good speech maker that he is. Churchill was very dedicated into what he did. Churchill was a very good speaker.
Yep I couldn't say it better. Winston Churchill was in a way a great speaker. He used great analogies, and above it all pathos. It is true that people are most likely to be moved or touched by one's speech through feelings. You really don't see or hear speaker presenting a speech without the use of pathos. In away this makes it easier for the speaker and for the audience. The speaker and the audience can hence have a better communication. Nevertheless, I agree that Winston Churchill was a great man and i do have to agree that because Churchill was a great man he also needs a great analysis and not the type that you just did. Be sure to include better examples next time and be sure to take out excerpts from his speech and talk about. Overall great work and keep doing it up.
I agree with you about speeches having to appeal into people's pathos. Well speeches had a big a big impact in world war 2 like the germany hating on the jews and it all started because of hitler's speeches against other races and many people actually believed him. His speeches had a large impact in world war 2.
Well your blog was good but i think it would've been better if u put the quote your talking about like ms.vernon said.
You should start a better introduction. I think you could make a better title. Well i am not trying to tell you is bad. Me myslef needs to work about titles and i was just looking at the packet that Ms.Vernon gave us and it could really help you like is helping me.
Dear Edwin,
Yes, I do remember him, history from 11th grade. I would of like that you added a part of the Speech, which inspired you most. I do like that you analyzed your understanding from Winston Churchill’s Speech. I really liked that you compared the speech on what we’ve recently studied (pathos).
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