Rhetorical Analysis Of Mlk Speech

A key part of King’s vision

“I have a dream”: Who doesn’t have Martin Luther King speech resonating in his head when he hears these worlds. Those words heard during the “March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom “on August 28th, 1963. The brio of “The King”, King capacity to deliver an explicit, powerful, persuasive speech to the crowd. Through his use of context, appeals and symbols, he encourages his nation to embrace the word of “the Declaration of Independence”. The message is clear and commanding: “I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal." Dr. King’s purpose is to end all problems between the different races

“King”, King was the most efficient figure to deliver this majestic public speech as a renowned Baptist preacher and the president of the new Southern Christian Leadership Conference, which was the main organization to conduct civil rights activities. His speech refers to young and old people from all around united states, (Mississippi, New York) and each people filled concerns because he made his speech about his audience. The purpose was to inspire change in both side black and white during the civil rights era. The genre is narrative and argumentative, this way his audience can identify them self in the text. He discusses the Afro-American situation: “But there is something that I must say to my people who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice. In the process of gaining our rightful place we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from m the cup of bitterness and hatred”. The White people who support equality and civil right for all, “for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny.” Then the White people who contribute to this violation of humans right:” We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their selfhood and robbed of their dignity by

To make feel his audience the injustice of the situation “The King” King appeal constantly to pathos; he evoked how emotionally the prejudice affected Americans. “This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity”. He use emotional image to describe and make everybody aware, “...one day right here in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.” He used for ethos that liberty and freedom now is the logic continuity of what the ancestor American builder want “When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of