Rivers of Blood
“As I look ahead, I am filled with foreboding; like the Roman, I seem to see The River Tiber foaming with much blood.” These were the famous words of Enoch Powell in his “Rivers of Blood” speech. With his use of rhetorical devices and fallacies, his speech came off as very effective. Before Powell gave his speech, in Wolverhampton, England alone, around twenty or thirty immigrants were arriving overseas every week and around fifteen to twenty additional families.. As a country they were allowing fifty-thousand immigrants to come in, allowing the immigrant-descended population to grow. “We must be mad, literally mad, as a nation,” Powell made people believe. “For Powell, immigration was a threat to social cohesion,” (Manzoor). …show more content…
He grouped people together using argument from omniscience, using the phrase "as a nation" multiple times. By grouping everyone together he made people believe that they were part of the minority that agreed with him. Argument from adverse consequences was also used by saying "the impact upon the existing population was very different. For reasons which they could not comprehend, and in pursuance of a decision by default, on which they were never consulted, they found themselves made strangers in their own country." It was used because even
though there were people who were having many issues with immigrants coming into the country, it didn't meant that all people would have this issue in the future.
After many immigrants started moving to Britain, people reacted very negatively. One of the major causes of that was because of Enoch Powell's speech. He used many rhetorical devices such as hypophora, anaphora, and euphemisms. His use of ethos, pathos, and logos also made his speech very effective. By using proper devices in his speech and using little fallacies Powell's speech was effective enough to make people react in negative ways to
“As I look ahead, I am filled with foreboding; like the Roman, I seem to see The River Tiber foaming with much blood.” These were the famous words of Enoch Powell in his “Rivers of Blood” speech. With his use of rhetorical devices and fallacies, his speech came off as very effective. Before Powell gave his speech, in Wolverhampton, England alone, around twenty or thirty immigrants were arriving overseas every week and around fifteen to twenty additional families.. As a country they were allowing fifty-thousand immigrants to come in, allowing the immigrant-descended population to grow. “We must be mad, literally mad, as a nation,” Powell made people believe. “For Powell, immigration was a threat to social cohesion,” (Manzoor). …show more content…
He grouped people together using argument from omniscience, using the phrase "as a nation" multiple times. By grouping everyone together he made people believe that they were part of the minority that agreed with him. Argument from adverse consequences was also used by saying "the impact upon the existing population was very different. For reasons which they could not comprehend, and in pursuance of a decision by default, on which they were never consulted, they found themselves made strangers in their own country." It was used because even
though there were people who were having many issues with immigrants coming into the country, it didn't meant that all people would have this issue in the future.
After many immigrants started moving to Britain, people reacted very negatively. One of the major causes of that was because of Enoch Powell's speech. He used many rhetorical devices such as hypophora, anaphora, and euphemisms. His use of ethos, pathos, and logos also made his speech very effective. By using proper devices in his speech and using little fallacies Powell's speech was effective enough to make people react in negative ways to