Comparison Of I Have A Dream Speech

In my opinion, the speech ‘I Have A Dream’ by Martin Luther King Jr. was a better speech in many ways than ‘Glory And Hope’ by Nelson Mandela. The similarities between both the speeches were many too. Both the speeches have many metaphors in them like ‘A promissory note, a bad check’ in MLK’s speech and ‘As intimately attached to the soil of this beautiful country as are the famous jacaranda trees of Pretoria and the mimosa trees of the bushveld.’ in Mandela’s speech. The metaphors that are used in this speech help the audience connect to the speech as metaphors show similarities between the situation and another object too. Another common thing between both the speeches are the adequate amount of imagery used too. This is again used to connect …show more content…
This allowed the audience to understand and get motivated better. Sometimes in a speech, not being able to connect, motivate or persuade the audience becomes an inextricable discord among the audience which makes them lose interest which in the end leads to a speeches failure. His voice has a lot of strength in it. MLK uses more of rhetoric and emotional appeal. Furthermore, his speech has all the three mediums of persuasion, which are Ethos, Pathos and Logos whereas Madiba isn’t trying to persuade people as much as MLK. While MLK is showing what to do to bring a change, he is also showing what not to do as he says that retribution and aggression is not the right path and it can be pernicious for them to bring a change. Madiba just said that they have redressed the problem that occurred and that there will be no more immolation but still he wasn’t trying to persuade people as much as MLK. Thus, the speech given by MLK, ‘I Have A Dream’ brought a change in this world as it was during the civil rights movement, which is why I like it more than Madiba’s