Defending Nonviolent Resistance Gandhi Rhetorical Devices

A speech written and spoken by a cultural leader beloved by many Indians who brought independence to India. “Defending Nonviolent Resistance”, by Mohandas Gandhi, delivered a speech to the appointed judge, and the audience at his trial on March 10th, 1922, which was heavily directed towards the British government’s discrimination toward Indians. Gandhi wrote this speech to incite non-violent change in the government which would also influence change in India. He attempted this for years throughout his life when he realized how corrupt the British government was toward Indians and he wanted his audience to see the wrongdoings of the government. He uses ethos, pathos, and logos to show what the British government has done to India and its people

Gandhi helped the government in a variety of different ways to gain status for Indians and have promises the prime minister promised to India to be granted, but nothing was fulfilled, and promises were not made. To speak this, lie the minister and government have delivered to India, he stated, “I fought for cooperation and working with the Montag Chelmsford reforms, hoping the prime minister would redeem his promise…the Khilafat promise was not redeemed” (Gandhi 30-31). Out of his good nature, he helped the prime minister so he could fulfill the promise that he made to India, but it was deemed useless because the promise was never redeemed which shows the major discrimination against Indians. Exposing this problem would fuel people in India to initiate change. Gandhi has always wanted to have change within the government. In the speech, he declared, “I gave the government my voluntary and hearty cooperation criticizing it freely where I felt it was a fault but never wishing its destruction” (Gandhi 30). Gandhi consistently helped the government by volunteering and giving his hearty cooperation while showing his disaffection towards the government to get that change, he longed for in India. Gandhi uses ethos to show that he did something about the government when it comes to cooperating with the government to give good status to Indians, whilst

With the use of logos in his speech, Gandhi gives accurate evidence to help his purpose of initiating change by s exposing corruption within the government and fueling the Indian people to assist in his protest. Therefore, in his speech, Gandhi mentions an event to show corruption involving India, he mentions. “Punjabi crime was whitewashed, and most culprits went not only unpunished but remained in service, and in some cases continued to draw pensions from the Indian revue, and in some cases were even rewarded. I saw too, that not only did the reforms not mark a change of heart, but they were only a method of further draining India of her wealth and of prolonging her servitude” (Gandhi pg. 31). Not only did a crime that happened in India become untouched by the government they still depleted India out of its wealth and influence. This shows the corrupted British government does not care what happens to India but only uses India for money and power. Gandhi was a lawyer and saw how Indians were truly treated in person which started his dissatisfaction with the government. Thus, said it started in, “1893 in South Africa…My first contact with the British authorities in that country was not happy. I discovered that as a man and as an Indian I had no rights. More correctly, I discovered that I had no