Hannah More's Village Politics By Hannah More

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In the work Village Politics by Hannah More, who writes this piece as a guy named Will Chip the issue of the working class men getting ideas and rising to create equality of men in England during the time period of the French Revolution is addressed. Hannah More’s stance of this issue is that she is trying to convince the working class that it is not a good idea to rise up and this stance that she is writing for is trying to limit the claiming of rights for the working class men. One way she conveys her argument is by writing under the name of Will Chip who is of working class her intended audience and the speakers of her piece are of the same. She is trying to appear relatable to the intended audience by both pretending to be and writing …show more content…
Hannah More does this so that the intended audience can relate to the argument being made but because Hannah More is from the middle class not the working class. Her speakers: Jack and Tom do not articulate the argument successfully. To start Tom does not get to speak as much as Jack who is speaking her argument. This should make it easy for More to have a strong argument against the working class men gaining equality but what Jack says is not his own opinion. Jack mentions a guy name Sir John and how “Sir John’s butler says his master gets letters which say ‘tis all a lie. ‘Tis all murder and nakedness, and hunger; many of the poor soldiers fight without victuals, and march without clothes (More 158). Jack is telling Tom this as if it is what he knows is right as opposed to it being third-hand information. This weakens the argument against her stance on the equality of men because the story Jack tells is not his own personal account. The speakers are once again from the working class and they are not as worldly as the higher class. They do not have direct knowledge of what is going on one hundred percent. Jack says that he does not know state of affairs as well as Sir John does (More 156). Using working class men to make the argument More is trying to make does not do a good job to persuade the …show more content…
The intended audience and the speakers of her piece are from the working class but because she is not from the working class the argument voiced by Jack is a middle class argument by her. A problem is also seen in how she tries to persuade the audience. Jack never has a personal account that could explain why he is arguing his side. Instead it is always someone like Sir John who has a butler who then told Jack the information. Lastly Jack goes on to exaggerate more and more throughout the piece. First he starts by not saying anything too terrible about France but as Tom is not convinced Jack has to make his argument sound more convincing, so his tales get more aggressive. Overall the argument presented by Hannah More gets weakened by her own argument presented by the character of

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