Lin Manuel Miranda Speech Essay

Improved Essays
During Lin-Manuel Miranda’s acceptance speech at the Tonys focuses directly on his audience as well as the world around him. The Orland Pulse shooting recent to this event reveals many emotions throughout the country. As Miranda presents his acceptance as a sonne using the shooting content and life’s messy organization to drag in everyone watching, along with speed and tone while delivering this speech. The use of verbal commands, PVLEGS, and ACOVA develops the speech for all.
This speech starts out with describing his loved wife and son, and how blessed he is to have them. Taking time to appreciate their existence, and the life he has made with them. Following his beautiful life, he starts to establish the shooting. He states, “When senseless acts of tragedy remind us, that nothing here is promised, not one day.” While leading the audience with an overflow of emotions. The use of explicit content he converses, connected not only the celebrities in the pews in front of him, but the viewers watching, and all affected Americans.
…show more content…
Near the start of his speech, he slows down and drags on the importance of his wife and son in his own life. Then violently changes his tone to match the senseless acts of tragedy described. Spitting out each like weapons. Listening to his speech you can hear the hatred behind his voice and what his thinks of this shooting. Letting the audience know how personal and disrupted this event is to Lin-Manuel and America. Moving past the agitated tone, he speeds up one line. “Love is love is love is love is love is love is love is love.” Almost yelling these words with repetition you can hear the emotions boiling over. On the verge of tears, Miranda repeats “love is love” validating the importance to all. The value beneath this line is matured with his tone and speed during his presentation. All bridging back to the content and sensation he

Related Documents

  • Superior Essays

    Zekiah Jupiter Mrs. Young AP Language and Composition 15 October, 2017 Hamilton and The American Dream In the award winning Broadway Musical, Hamilton, written by Lin-Manuel Miranda, there are an array of rhetorical strategies used in order to convey Miranda’s personal beliefs of the American Dream. He uses strategies such as repetition, metaphors, similes, and allusion, all of which to exemplify and explain Miranda’s interpretation of the American Dream; everyone should, not only be granted opportunity, but not waste their opportunity in life to make a difference as well. Miranda uses repetition throughout the musical to emphasize key aspects of the American Dream. One example being, in the song “My Shot”, the repetition of the phrase “I…

    • 1096 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Raegan had to emanate a sense of emotional intelligence and confidence. At the start of his speech he took on a melancholy tone. Raegan grabs the audience attention and captures their emotions by empathizing with his fellow Americans from a “person to person” perspective. Presenting a sorrowful mood onto the audience. Instead of staying in his Presidential position Raegan steps away from that describing the tragedy as a “day for mourning and remembering”, so that he can clearly express his pain and true emotions towards the situation.…

    • 1354 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Decent Essays

    John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Address and Eleanor Clift's article, “Inside Kennedy's Inauguration, 50 years on”, both attempt to elicit differing emotions from their audience. In his Inaugural Address, Kennedy constructs a formal tone and uses abstract words, metaphors and other rhetorical devices to build emotion, however, contrary to Kennedy's Inaugural Address, Clift's article creates an informal tone and displays her own personal experiences to the reader let Kennedy feel as if he is giving off a relaxed and relatable…

    • 80 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Jeremiads have been around for thousands of years. This rhetorical strategy is named after the prophet Jeremiah, who prophesied the destruction of Jerusalem because Israelites turned their backs on the Lord and were worshipping false idols. A jeremiad is a sermon, speech, visual text, or essay that unifies people by creating tension between an ideal social life and its manifestation (Aufses). A traditional jeremiad presents a spiritual or biblical ideal for specific behaviors. It then describes the way an individual or community has fallen from the standards and provides a vision for an ideal public life that will result from a return to the high standards that have been presented (Aufses).…

    • 1260 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    “(We have) more to do for the young woman in East St. Louis, and thousands more like her, who has the grades, has the drive, has the will, but doesn’t have the money to go to college (Obama, para 6).” Interestingly, he follows this statement with an attempt to dissatisfy one of the commonplace arguments against liberal policies. Mr. Obama says that these people do not ‘expect that government will solve all of their problems,’ but that they are willing to work hard in order to achieve their dreams. This seems to solidify Obama’s ethos with the audience, especially when combined with the specific scenarios that he uses to exemplify the need for his policies. The middle section of the speech is dedicated to the 2004 Presidential Election.…

    • 838 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The greeks struggled with the same issue when you reflect back upon the execution of Julius. Robert Kennedy’s speech was more impactful and remembered from his use of rhetorical devices and diction. After hearing the speech, certain themes and words remain in your head which leave you thinking. Throughout his speech he referred to his own life , family and the use of prayer. Kennedy was portraying empathy with everyone who was affected.…

    • 771 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    One of the most important parts of the civil rights movement was to be able to give a compelling speech that encourages the people to act and fight for what is right. One of the key speeches of the civil rights movement was John Lewis’s speech during the march in Washington on August 28th 1968 because of his way of persuading the audience. Although he was asked to make adjustments to his already powerful speech at the March on Washington, John Lewis uses rhetorical appeals to make his argument strong and persuasive. He uses emotion to show the horrors of what is occurring, logic to convey the reasons why there needs to be a change, and his credibility to show his involvement in the civil rights movement. First of all, Lewis was able to make his argument compelling by his use of emotion, or pathos.…

    • 734 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    In the play “Richard the Third”, Richard, the Duke of Gloucester is clearly identified as malicious as he rises to power to king through corruption. One of the members of the Lancaster royal family, Richmond, on the other hand fights for justice in England. Richard and Richmond’s speeches addressed to their respective troops before the battle illustrates distinctive qualities of their personality. Through their diction, the characters true colors as well as their motives are revealed as. Considering the dreams that each of the characters had earlier, Richard’s speech is influenced from fear while Richmond’s is hopeful.…

    • 1271 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    In the eulogy for the honorable reverend Clementa Pinckney, President Obama shows us the good use of the rhetorical analysis. In this analysis of the speech I will be discussing the use of ethos, pathos, logos. Obama starts the speech showing us that there is an emotional connection between him and his audience, this creates pathos. Obama adds “scripture tells us,” this part makes him credible for the audience because he is talking to people in a church and he brought a citation from the bible. Then in the next paragraph he starts saying about how good of a person Clem was and this created an increase in the affection of the people to the reverend.…

    • 1048 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    On November 22, 1963 President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. Kennedy had planned to fight a war on poverty. The Vice-president, Lyndon B. Johnson, assumed the role as president and carried on with Kennedy’s figurative war, addressing the nation in his speech Let us Continue. Within this speech, Johnson addresses Congress and the American people. On November 27, five days after the assassination, Johnson read Let Us Continue.…

    • 870 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Also, by using this technique, he speaks to the citizens, he mourns with them, like a person and less like a president doing his duty, which gave an effect of empathy. Even though President Reagan knew that this is a tragedy that he needs to try his best to prevent, he stayed mindful of letting his audience know that he mourns and feels their…

    • 953 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Denzel Washington

    • 210 Words
    • 1 Pages

    Denzel Washington’s speech seemed so natural. As a matter of fact, Denzel’s delivery felt more like a conversation with the audience then a speech. His sense of humor throughout the speech also added to this. Due to this, the crowd was able to feel at ease and enjoy what he had to say. The content of his speech revolved around him finding himself in life.…

    • 210 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Difficult Decisions According to Lin-Manuel Miranda, there will be ups and downs in everyone's lives. Times where one feels like a lost ship at sea. But, like that ship, one must decide whether to sink or float. Wisdom from writers as successful as he is, with his Tony award-winning musical, Hamilton:…

    • 866 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    When he makes these suggestions of how his audience may feel, if it matches up with how they did, then they instantly may see this as a shared emotion. That alone enables the generation of a sense of community through the listeners while letting them feel that they are not alone in their…

    • 1174 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The American dream is a keystone of our country’s identity. At the core of our nation are the principles of freedom, honor, intelligence, and dignity. Many consider America to be the greatest nation in the world because of our prodigious sense of justice and dedication to preserving liberty across the globe. We consider ourselves paragons of independence, a nation of brave young men and women who are leaders, warriors, and academics.…

    • 724 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays