In the Middle Ages during the 100 years war, plays were written about noble people during the war, both from France and England. The plays were called Henry V by Shakespeare and Saint Joan by George Bernard Shaw. Scenes from Henry V and scenes from Saint Joan use very different styles of rhetorical strategies for speeches, this is because of the very different classes that the characters come from.
First off, when King Henry gives his speeches to his men, he uses ethos to show his higher title than his men have. Using ethos in the Middle Ages shows your class title, Henry is showing his men that he is King and the men must listen him. Henry says, “The mercy that was quick in us but late By your own counsel is suppressed and killed. You must …show more content…
A squire talking to Joan degrades her by showing her place in the class system. The squire says, “She’s not a farm wench, she’s a bourgeois… I know her class exactly… A farmer. Not a gentlemen farmer”(Shaw 11). This shows how important the class system was in the Middle Ages, because it was used in both Saint Joan and in Henry V.
In comparison to Henry’s speeches, Joan’s speeches are very different rhetorical strategies. Like already stated, Henry uses ethos, but Joan uses pathos. Pathos is used when the speech shows emotion. Joan cannot use pathos in her speech because she has a very low class ranking, so it must be different from Henry’s speeches. Joan uses pathos when she says, “I should have taken it myself before this if they had been sound about it. Some of them would rather Paris took you, I think. So take care!”(Shaw). This quote clearly shows the rhetoric comparison between the two figures. Therefore, Henry’s speeches are very different from Joan’s speeches.
In conclusion, the heroic war plays show how different, but yet similar Henry and Joan are. Therefore, Henry V and Saint Joan are very different in rhetoric styles of writing, but use similar lenses such as the class
First off, when King Henry gives his speeches to his men, he uses ethos to show his higher title than his men have. Using ethos in the Middle Ages shows your class title, Henry is showing his men that he is King and the men must listen him. Henry says, “The mercy that was quick in us but late By your own counsel is suppressed and killed. You must …show more content…
A squire talking to Joan degrades her by showing her place in the class system. The squire says, “She’s not a farm wench, she’s a bourgeois… I know her class exactly… A farmer. Not a gentlemen farmer”(Shaw 11). This shows how important the class system was in the Middle Ages, because it was used in both Saint Joan and in Henry V.
In comparison to Henry’s speeches, Joan’s speeches are very different rhetorical strategies. Like already stated, Henry uses ethos, but Joan uses pathos. Pathos is used when the speech shows emotion. Joan cannot use pathos in her speech because she has a very low class ranking, so it must be different from Henry’s speeches. Joan uses pathos when she says, “I should have taken it myself before this if they had been sound about it. Some of them would rather Paris took you, I think. So take care!”(Shaw). This quote clearly shows the rhetoric comparison between the two figures. Therefore, Henry’s speeches are very different from Joan’s speeches.
In conclusion, the heroic war plays show how different, but yet similar Henry and Joan are. Therefore, Henry V and Saint Joan are very different in rhetoric styles of writing, but use similar lenses such as the class