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Toulmin Analysis And An Addition To The Symposium

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Katie Valentine Professor Seth Martin English 102 5 March 2024 Toulmin Analysis and an Addition to the Symposium The Symposium written by Plato is a collection of numerous speeches given on love. The speech given by Aristophanes was the one I was most interested in and curious about. His speech was distinctly different from the others, and it created a comedic yet still serious claim while looking at the history of love, creating a comedic yet still serious masterpiece. The Toulmin method helped in analyzing Aristophanes' speech and when writing a speech of my own on the same topic. We will discuss how love is the foundation of faith and the core of mankind. As I read through Aristophanes’ speech, I easily picked out numerous elements of the Toulmin method. The first of these …show more content…

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