Another technique he employed is the development of ethos, pathos, and logos. He built logos through definition and description. Pathos is found throughout the speech in his use of past events to positively disturb the audience. Wiesel’s ability to upset the audience with his experiences provokes an emotion of pity from the audience. For example, he states that the prisoners “…no longer felt pain, hunger, thirst.They feared nothing. They felt nothing. They were dead and did not know it”; in the camps the prisoners existed, but with nothing to live for, which is a horrifying image (The Perils of Indifference 2). Infusion of these types of quotes, Wiesel can elicit uncomfortable emotions from the audience with these incredibly gruesome descriptions. …show more content…
In the matter of one paragraph, Hitler repeated the term “proposal” numerous times in his argument about his ideas and peace offerings with Poland. He also used specific phrasing to show that he was making more of the effort to create peace than other countries. Throughout the piece he used very simple language and built up false accusations and lies in order to make his efforts sound superior to the others. Along with the simple language, he also infused clear support for his points so they were totally flushed out. All of these rhetorical tactics were effective because he considered his audience and effectively targeted the methods to get the best response. He was effective and he was successful (Hitler). The tone of his piece was authoritative and knowledgeable which gained him credibility and audiences respond better to those who display knowledge on a subject and are confident. Confidence is intimidating and individuals tend to admire and respect those with confidence. The most powerful ability is to take this characteristic and convey it through a speech to
Using such harsh imagery and descriptive detail when giving Wiesel's speech elicits strong emotional responses from the audience, making the audience empathetic to Wiesel’s purpose for his
Wiesel pinpoints the indifference of humans as the real enemy, causing further suffering and lost to those already in peril. Wiesel commenced the speech with an interesting attention getter: a story about a young Jewish from a small town that was at the end of war liberated from Nazi rule by American soldiers. This young boy was in fact himself. The first-hand experience of cruelty gave him credibility in discussing the dangers of indifference; he was a victim himself.
On the other hand, Wiesel, in “Night”. Described the life in the enemy camps during war. In “All Quiet Men of the Western Front”, the writer talked about the fear of death and how the lives of the men there were hanging by a third. Wiesel wrote more about watching death and seeing people getting executed in front of him and described their state after they died. Readers also can notice Wiesel writing about a man wondering where is God “For God’s sake, where is God?”
These camps show many circumstances of inhumanity. The prisoners were so malnourished that Wiesel even writes, “I was nothing but a body, perhaps even less: a
Being the last sentence of the book, and out of all the passages I highlighted this one stood out to me and described Wiesel’s experience in just a few simple sentence. He looked at himself for the first time in many years, and did not recognize himself he saw a different person. This showed me that the concentration camps changed him he was a different person inside and out. The events that occurred to him had scared him so much that the man he saw in the mirror wasn’t him, but one who had been drained of life that looked lifeless from the events occurred in the concentration camps. He was weak and this whole passage embodies his weakness and the whole point of the concentration camps.
Wiesel and his father were sent to several different camps and suffered a great deal before their nightmare was ended. In the novel, many people living in the concentration camps suffered from emotional death because they had to watch innocent people die, were forced to use every ounce of their energy to endure horrific conditions, and had begun to question whether it was better to live or die. First,
Hitler placed the blame onto the Jews, in which people were happy to do. The fear began to turn into hope, a hope that one day, Germany would be great again. Even when Hans had lectured Liesel, he did it with the hope that Liesel would not be punished and taken away. Another example of something which has powerful words is a book. Mein Kampf, a book written by Hitler to convey his thoughts and feelings to the people, did exactly that.
Small children that have only been in the world for so little thought most of their future was going to be in a concentration camp. Which leads to Wiesel to keep remembering the children. Another statement by Wiesel is, “You, who never lived under a sky of blood, will never know what it is like” (Wiesel 18). Here Wiesel shows how tormented he is. Wiesel witnessed the damage caused by the Nazis.
Wiesel’s use of ethos, pathos, logos, diction, and allusion certainly gives the audience information and emotions he was hoping
Hitler’s use of pathos and ethos made him seem very emotional towards the topic. His use of pathos by using hand gestures to express more emotion while he talked as well as letting tension rise by making people wait made his speech more effective. He used ethos when he talked he would start in a lower voice and get higher while he made it sound like was really looking out for the German people. He wanted to gain their trust. When he would say sentences such as “The delusion that some are the conquerors and others the conquered destroys the trust between nations and thereby also destroys the world economy.
Wiesel’s speech shows how he worked to keep the memory of those people alive because he knows that people will continue to be guilty, to be accomplices if they forget. Furthermore, Wiesel knows that keeping the memory of those poor, innocent will avoid the repetition of the atrocity done in the future. The stories and experiences of Wiesel allowed for people to see the true horrors of what occurs when people who keep silence become “accomplices” of those who inflict pain towards humans. To conclude, Wiesel chose to use parallelism in his speech to emphasize the fault people had for keeping silence and allowing the torture of innocent
When Wiesel makes it clear that he has suffered personal loss, he is evoking an emotional response from his audience. By stating that he senses their presence “The presence of my parents, that of my little sister.” the audience empathizes with him and the horror of the Holocaust is made more clear for them. They cannot only understand his feelings; they can connect to them which strengthens their understanding of the need to act whenever they witness inhumanity.
Wiesel continually brought up gratitude, joy, compassion and the children. The use of Pathos in this speech was evident throughout, the audience was in his shoes and felt his
One significant strategy used in Wiesel’s speech is pathos. Wiesel uses pathos liberally throughout his speech
His message resonated with the masses and therefore I am reminded of Marx and Religion and the Opium of the people Hitler became just that, so as the German economy crashed, his popularity rose, the business community wanted Hitler to succeed, they financed his party and supported his movement. The business community wanted a strong man to fix the anarchy so that they could continue in an orderly fashion with the business of making money. Another reason was that they saw Hitler as a very simple, even a stupid man who could be directed and dangled like a puppet from above with an only limited understanding of politics