Martin Luther King And Hitler Comparison Analysis

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Martin Luther King and Adolph Hitler were alluring speakers but with different desires. Both had the extreme ability to attract to the masses through the spoken word, this being obvious in some of their famous speeches. Putting aside Hitler 's ghastly desires and outcomes and just examining the interesting and well- liked delivery of his speeches I feel that today he would have been worthy of the trainers trainer certification. The persuasion that he learned and developed in handling crowds, even large crowds of thousands, involved pacing the objections he knew that they would have against his argument and using them in the service of persuasion. He did that by pacing and leading. He also seemed to have a natural instinct about how to 'read …show more content…

Martin Luther King had an alike speech format to Hitler and points 2,3,4,5,7, and 8 of his speeches supported Hitler 's 'model formula. ' Points 1 and 6 juxtapositions between the two speakers. Hitler kept things simple and made only a few points. Martin Luther’s speeches were full of lyrical metaphors that took the listener on a timeline trip, from the past, to the present, then into the future. Where Hitler gave no belief to beauty, thinking and balance, (point 6), these values were central to Luther’s speeches. In his famous 'I have a dream ' speech, he moves the listener from summer into autumn and the element of time is reinforced by saying, “1963 is not an end but a beginning.” MLK uses a metaphor for his subject matter and through his metaphoric trip, he leads the receiver by doing a series of modality reframes such as, “Dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice,” “From the quicksand’s of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood,” “The sweltering summer of the Negro’s legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality,” “Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred,” and, “Every hill and mountain shall be made low, and rough places will be made plains, and the crooked places will be made straight and