The King's speech is carefully crafted to ensure a strong sense of unity resonates with the audience. The King or his speechwriter, aided by careful choice of diction, tone, and content, ensured the effect, to unite the peoples of the British empire in solidarity and build respect for the disliked monarch, was maximized.
The first way this is executed, is in the interesting way the King begins address. From the very start, the king lowers himself from his position of superiority, down to the level of his audience. The King speaks like he is bringing the message to his people as though he was a friend or an acquaintance. He even expresses this desire to cross the threshold of the radio broadcasting center he is in and speak with the audience man to man. An air of almost intimacy is created with the audience. This establishes a new kind ethos with his audience and fosters newfound respect in the listener, a respect once lacking due to his perceived incompetence.
Now that the King is on the level of his audience, he begins his narration of the events that are to come, and how the country must rise together as the whole. The King’s emphasizes the need for unity in a time of crisis, and emphasizes this …show more content…
He acknowledges the challenges ahead, the sacrifices that must be made, and the shared suffering that whole nation is destined to endure in these trying. He concludes this speech with utilizing another more value uniting value in a final attempt to pull the nation together, the belief in the higher power of God. He prays for God's blessing upon the entirety nation in its most fateful hour.Now with the nation convinced, united in determination, and prepared for the challenge ahead, the speech is finished. Its rhetorical goal is achieved: King George's competency is cemented
The first way this is executed, is in the interesting way the King begins address. From the very start, the king lowers himself from his position of superiority, down to the level of his audience. The King speaks like he is bringing the message to his people as though he was a friend or an acquaintance. He even expresses this desire to cross the threshold of the radio broadcasting center he is in and speak with the audience man to man. An air of almost intimacy is created with the audience. This establishes a new kind ethos with his audience and fosters newfound respect in the listener, a respect once lacking due to his perceived incompetence.
Now that the King is on the level of his audience, he begins his narration of the events that are to come, and how the country must rise together as the whole. The King’s emphasizes the need for unity in a time of crisis, and emphasizes this …show more content…
He acknowledges the challenges ahead, the sacrifices that must be made, and the shared suffering that whole nation is destined to endure in these trying. He concludes this speech with utilizing another more value uniting value in a final attempt to pull the nation together, the belief in the higher power of God. He prays for God's blessing upon the entirety nation in its most fateful hour.Now with the nation convinced, united in determination, and prepared for the challenge ahead, the speech is finished. Its rhetorical goal is achieved: King George's competency is cemented