What’s your dream? Some desire love, others want money, while some try to get that girl they like to go out with them, it’s a major example of commitment and trying, but none so hard to reach than freedom, like Dr. King, as he said: “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter” -Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Being a topic that’s still around today, freedom is the ability to do something without hindrance, and the speech by Dr. King: “I have a dream” is a symbol of that, because during the 1950’s Africans peacefully protested for freedom, as so northerner’s did in the 1850’s for slaves to be free. And through other speeches like the “Gettysburg address were people able to realize, this land was made to be free, from the beginning to the end. And most defiantly was this shown was through ethos, a source of credibility by the speaker, through the speakers ethos, to past experience, and even a “bad check”, does ethos shows humans in the making.
To demonstrate ethos as an excellent example because of King’s own personal experience as an African. This is shown on line 14 King says: “This note was a promise that all men, yes black as well as white men, would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. ” This is his way of saying, even from the beginning did blacks not receive rights but rather, had them taken away from them. And through this does King show his frustration, that even though blacks and whites have tried to give Africans rights, for many years, even a century can’t they get full rights.
Like a constant struggle between good and evil, where the white man, is evil. And it’s a great connection to ethos as showing, no matter how much King and many others tried and failed, they never gave up and tried their hardest to convince and persuade, it’s an excellent example of what King is fighting for, his freedom. Subsequently is previous experience, because without a further source, one “opinion” or “Statement” won’t matter to saying ethos can help bring examples.
Ethos shows that on line 7 where King states: “one hundred years later. ” In a form of parallelism saying that is a relevant point and yet, it backs up King’s statement. Not only has King felt an uncertainty of rights and Blacks 100 years ago didn’t have those full rights as well. And this shows that through protesting has King and many others failed to bring the point that Blacks are suffering from this. It was even worse back in the 1850’s when slavery prohibited hundreds of thousands of blacks from having any rights.
Connecting this to ethos, it’s truly important to keep the evidence relevant and correctly sourced, like a document, and showing the importance through ethos creates the perspective of effort and determination. Mlynarczyk Kidwell Accordingly, ethos is the upstanding example of speeches by relating its source to a figurative term. This is seen through King’s speech, as in line 17 Dr. Martin states: “…. America has given the Nergo people a bad check….. marked (with) “insufficient funds”…. ” This example shows that through a figurative form of ethos he shows not only the people fighting, but also the ones who are opposing the Blacks.
And through the credibility of a bad check, King shows; he’s just a regular person like everyone else, scarred by the rules and enforcement of the white extremist government. Plus by stating that the Nergo has been given a bad check, this gives those who enforce laws a chance to look at this and think…. what if they’re the ones who are wrong. And as time shows this speech changed the way people thought, by King showing how this country had failed to be an equal did the country turn into a land of the free, brave, and equal.
And by connecting this back to ethos this shows not only will King share his experience of it, but also the general summary of the past 100 years and of what has happened to the Black population. Ethos is a powerful way to get your words across in a powerful manner. On the other hand though, ethos is a powerful use of this speech, but so is something like pathos. By constructing this figurative way of speaking, pathos can truly reach into the person, and in some way break the person at heart. Or even in a more dramatic way will it work best.
Yet bringing emotion is an effective way to reach into the listener/reader, but ethos is a way to show that the person is not pulling random stuff. Even looking at some of the most famous speeches and documents from history, ethos is the strongest example of the 3, and even learns to effective tell the person that credibility can be the logic in it. To sum up ethos is the powerful example of rhetoric devices, by comparing the speaker, the people, and the bad checks of sorts, ethos shows that some never give in their trial for rights, and way of righteousness.
By showing the people that pleading for rights isn’t the best thing, but rather try and use your words and actions (not violently of course), and use words to reach to the people and give them your voice and say in society. The Nergo people were built off words and actions of righteousness, some go down in history as the strongest and most powerful people to live, just by using their voice. And King truly defines the best example of someone who never gave up and used all of his resources to succeed. And at the heart of it all is this: where does logos fit in all of this?
