One is a booming voice, definite in its meaning and stance, resounding from the Lincoln Memorial to hundreds of thousands of protesters; the other, a quiet but purposeful voice, speaking to a calm audience within a town building. Each are known to be one of the most important promoters of peace in modern history; the manner in which they communicated their messages were so similar, and, at the same time, strikingly different. The most renowned of their speeches, being Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech and Malala Yousafzai’s Nobel Lecture, promoted peace and unification in two blatantly diverse manners. Audience, context, purpose and devices each play roles in altering how previously mentioned peacemakers voiced their most famed speeches.
One of the most prominent differences between these two speeches is the audience to which the speeches were presented. Dr. King’s speech was given to a crowd of around 250,000 protesters fighting for civil rights; on the other hand, Yousafzai’s lecture was given to a docile crowd of no more than a few hundred. This change in audience provokes a change in delivery and in turn, a change in meaning. Though Dr. King gave a thought provoking speech, the exuberant manner in …show more content…
In “I Have a Dream” we can see both Ethos, King mentioned the statement about equality found in the Declaration of Independence, and Pathos, he mentioned his children and all the children being able to stand together in the future with no discrimination between them. Yousafzai’s speech manages to incorporate all three rhetorical devices. Ethos, through the statement that all children deserve to go to school, Pathos, through the ongoing emotion incorporated in the speech, and Logos, through the logic that every child should go to school. Both speakers use both Ethos and Pathos showing similarity, but also difference, as Yousafzai’s speech also uses
One of the most prominent differences between these two speeches is the audience to which the speeches were presented. Dr. King’s speech was given to a crowd of around 250,000 protesters fighting for civil rights; on the other hand, Yousafzai’s lecture was given to a docile crowd of no more than a few hundred. This change in audience provokes a change in delivery and in turn, a change in meaning. Though Dr. King gave a thought provoking speech, the exuberant manner in …show more content…
In “I Have a Dream” we can see both Ethos, King mentioned the statement about equality found in the Declaration of Independence, and Pathos, he mentioned his children and all the children being able to stand together in the future with no discrimination between them. Yousafzai’s speech manages to incorporate all three rhetorical devices. Ethos, through the statement that all children deserve to go to school, Pathos, through the ongoing emotion incorporated in the speech, and Logos, through the logic that every child should go to school. Both speakers use both Ethos and Pathos showing similarity, but also difference, as Yousafzai’s speech also uses