On the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his most iconic speech in the history of Black American Civil Rights. On August 28th, 1963 King led the March on Washington. With over hundred thousands of people King started off by reiterating the Gettysburg Address. Then leading into his dream about America and the place he would want to raise his kids in. The Civil Rights Movement was a large part of King’s life, and ultimately leading the face of the revolution. However, the beginnings of the movement started well before King was mature enough to understand what was happening. The movement has been hypothesized to have been defined by the Plessy vs. Ferguson case in May of 1896. The case looked at the idea of “separate but equal.” This
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This speech is over 53 years old, and is still taught in many schools across the nation today. The question leading to the analysis of King’s speech is; what was the mindset behind King as he was preparing for his speech, what did he want his audience to feel during his speech and take away from what he was explaining, and how did King’s “I Have a Dream” speech use certain rhetorical devices in order to connect with the audience on a personal level?
Within King’s speech there are multiple uses of metaphors to provide a significance to aspects of King’s speech. Therefore using a metaphorical criticism will be beneficial to understanding how King wanted his audience to feel during his speech. The use of metaphors provides an emphasis on parts to draw the reader into the speech. For King, the use of metaphors was a central way in accomplishing that goal. Using the criticism of metaphors is helpful to start off with, because it provides a framework that is able to guide other analysis attempts of the speech. To begin with, King uses the words, “sadly crippled by the manacies of segregation and the chains
This speech is over 53 years old, and is still taught in many schools across the nation today. The question leading to the analysis of King’s speech is; what was the mindset behind King as he was preparing for his speech, what did he want his audience to feel during his speech and take away from what he was explaining, and how did King’s “I Have a Dream” speech use certain rhetorical devices in order to connect with the audience on a personal level?
Within King’s speech there are multiple uses of metaphors to provide a significance to aspects of King’s speech. Therefore using a metaphorical criticism will be beneficial to understanding how King wanted his audience to feel during his speech. The use of metaphors provides an emphasis on parts to draw the reader into the speech. For King, the use of metaphors was a central way in accomplishing that goal. Using the criticism of metaphors is helpful to start off with, because it provides a framework that is able to guide other analysis attempts of the speech. To begin with, King uses the words, “sadly crippled by the manacies of segregation and the chains