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Oedipus The King Persuasive Speech

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It was a gorgeous day as the villagers gathered in front of the king there to voice along with support the main voice who was the town speaker who was going to announce to the king who was seated on the Balcony of his magnificent castle. “WE AS VILLAGERS DESERVE TO HAVE THE RIGHT TO BE ABLE TO EXPRESS OURSELVES AND SPEAK UP” Said William the town speaker…But wait were not there yet so let me start from the beginning. For a while now the King has been stingy with everyone regarding food of all things and the village of the King was in total chaos, it wasn’t until someone known as the town speaker came to be known voicing everyone’s thoughts on the issues in the village that King Richard found it upon himself to proclaim that we do not get to voice our opinion or express ourselves unless it were to be in a positive way, those who voiced or expressed themselves or opinion would be impelled into the dungeon. So as you can imagine the villagers have been meeting secretly voicing what we felt together until it was agreed that we would have to do something about these problems as well as speak up together because what King would place all his people into a dungeon, he must come to realize that if there all saying the same thing there must be some truth in it. So were there now …show more content…

“We’ve all agreed that unless you give us these rights we will not work, and we promise this village will fall apart without all of us.” “Yes!” Screamed the villagers erupted into a cheer “He’s right!” Eventually it grew silent as we all watched and waited to see what the king had to say about this. “You dare defy your king” he says in a controlled raised voice. “I don’t need any of you, so no you still have none of the Rights you speak of and you better hurry off before I send all of you into the

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