President Reagan used his spectators and his surroundings to his advantage to make his point and strengthen his argument. He uses the crisis amongst them to execute a fair use of Kairos in his speech. At the time of Reagan’s visit to Germany, there was a high amount of tension between the two sides of Berlin. At the time, there were heated debates surfacing about the American missiles being held over Europe. This was the perfect time to speak on the wide problem amongst the Germans. Behind two layers of bulletproof glass, President Reagan proposes his speech at the Brandenburg Gate amongst more than 45,000 Berlin citizens on June 12, 1987. President Reagan includes a notable number of quotes from past events in modern history in his speech to enhance his points. Regan takes it back to the year of 1945, “In this season of spring in 1945, the people of Berlin emerged from their air-raid shelters to find devastation.” (Reagan) He furthermore switches into two years later and discusses the Marshall …show more content…
His claims are not filled with empty and meaningless words, he actually backs up his arguments with logical solutions and clear points. He uses a clear, powerful tone to persuade his crowd along with the use of logos and pathos. “Behind me stands a wall that encircles the free sectors of this city” (Reagan), he describes how the communist have divided the citizens yet they say everyone is “free” but the modern-day term of free does not mean free. The separation of the city should not be up to the government’s choice but to the people who actual have to live through this. Over one hundred people were killed by the barb wire, explosive mines and machine guns that the wall holds. He draws strong feelings from the families of the wall’s victims and some who haven’t seen their loved ones on the other side of this
Above all else, Reagan uses the speech to inspire
Ronald Reagan was the 40th president of the United States of America during the Cold War era. On January 28th, 1986, he gave a speech to discuss the tragedy of the Challenger Space Shuttle, which exploded in atmosphere. The speech was delivered in the Oval Office during his State of the Union Address. He was attempting to inform and comfort America about the disaster. The author uses multiple rhetorical devices in his speech. The importance of these devices is to convey a goal of the author to persuade the reader to a certain perspective. A speaker uses these devices to give the speech more impact. Rhetorical and persuasive devices can make a speech more effective since the devices can use emotional and logical appeal. In this speech, Reagan does not use very many complicated devices, but he does use appeal, anaphora, repetition, and allusion.
Imagine the world we are living in today, now imagine a world where we are told who to marry, where to work, who to hate and not to love. It is hard to imagine right, some people even today are living in the world actually have governments that are controlling their everyday life. In literature many writers have given us a view of how life may be like if our rights as citizen and our rights simply as human beings. One day the government may actually find a way to control and brainwash people into beings with no emotions like they have in the book 1984 where they express only hate, because that’s what they have been taught by the party.
Reagan began his speech slightly agitated due to the overwhelming response of the audience. He used hand gestures and repeatedly thanked the audience for their continued support. After regaining the audience's atte...
Ronald Reagan adeptly utilizes Ethos Pathos and Logos in his Brandenburg Gate address, he attempts to sway the audience of the importance of success of the marshal plan and western values as a whole, and convince the leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, to open up the barrier which had divided West and East Berlin since 1961. Reagan begins his speech by addressing the people present and recognizing the “freedom” and “feeling of history” of the city of Berlin has. He makes his first reference to previous speakers by saying, “Twenty four years ago, President John F. Kennedy visited Berlin, and speaking to the people of this city and the world at the city hall. Well since then two other presidents have come, each in his turn to Berlin. And today, I, myself, make my second visit to your city,”( Reagan 361) His first usage of pathos is when he addresses the east berliners who were separated from the westerners by the Berlin wall and tells them, “I join your fellow countrymen in the West, in this
President John F. Kennedy gave his inaugural address to the American public on January 20, 1961. President Kennedy’s inaugural speech is designed to deliver a message of hope and perseverance against foreign threats, specifically the communist Soviet Union, against whom the United States was involved in the Cold War. In his speech, President Kennedy takes the global stage, capitalizing on the emergence of mass media and the ability to reach people on a worldwide scale to deliver a message meant to be heard both home and abroad. Kennedy’s inaugural address uses several different rhetorical devices—i.e., repetition, contrast/antithesis, and metaphorical imagery designed to produce pathos in the audience—to
Forty years after arguably the most pivotal moment of the 20th century, Ronald Reagan presents a heartfelt speech regarding this day in history. He stood on the very soil that was once was a war zone and spoke to veterans and some of the most prominent leaders in the world. In one of the most emotional speeches ever delivered, Reagan’s “On the 40th Anniversary of D-Day” touches the hearts of millions by using extraordinary syntax to properly convey his serious message, emotional tone to stress the amplitude of the events taken place and the pathos to remind the people of the heroic actions that were taken place on Doomsday in 1944.
Reagan’s use of diction specifically lets the audience know that he is knowledgeable of the topic. Reagan “understood the practical importance of liberty--that just as truth can flourish only when the journalist is given freedom of speech”(Reagan) which is exactly what the people are in need of at this time. This speech meant a huge deal at this time because the communist plague was spreading all throughout europe with no central power that could slow them down. East Berlin was one of the worst communist ridden cities in all of europe which provided Reagan with a perfect opportunity to cross the border from West Berlin into East Berlin so he could deliver his speech and let his audience know that he was not going to stop until the wall had fallen. Reagan served as the one person they could listen to that would give them hope for the future. With the tearing down of the Berlin Wall would come freedom, unity, and democracy throughout Germany along with the rest of the
Both fought for unconventional ideas of their time and did so peacefully. “Every man is a Berliner, forced to look upon a scar.” (Eidenmuller 2). This quote taken from Reagan’s speech adds a pathos appeal to his cause, which helps him convey and progress his ideas to the people of Berlin, and the world. By adding this appeal and making people more susceptible to agreeing with him, President Reagan is making his call for peace a more viable option to the world.
In many ways John F. Kennedy’s decision to have this speech as well as the contents itself, reflected how he was instrumental to success in keeping the public calm. The president could hav...
“Unity is strength. Division is weakness” is a Swahili proverb that mimics the message of President John F. Kennedy’s memorable inaugural speech. Kennedy was a president of many firsts, the first Roman Catholic president, and the first president to get inaugurated on television. Even with all of his honors distinguishing him from others, Kennedy never wanted to alienate or separate anyone in his country. All throughout Kennedy’s speech he stressed that through unification anything is possible. The rhetoric used in Kennedy’s speech helped strengthen and emphasize his message of unity and conciliation.
Many great words have been spoken towards the Berlin Wall and the issues that surrounded it. The speeches and incredible words spoken by both John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan brought a new light to those uses and the conflict with the separation of Berlin, Germany. In their inspiring words they used countless uses of rhetoric al strategies such as anaphora, imagery, and the use of their addressers language to enhance and emphasize their words and appeal to the people and in doing so it soon brought the city of Berlin back together. Their uses of rhetoric were indeed similar to each other and the way they addressed the people of Berlin, and the Russian Chancellor, and their purpose both the same as well, to bring down the Berlin Wall, and the parting between whole communities, families, and friends be closed.
Although President Ronald Reagan’s speech at Brandenburg Gate is most known for his demand for tearing down the Berlin wall, his speech was a motivational speech to encourage the Germans of freedom to come. He wanted to encourage the world for that matter that at some point Germany and the entire Soviet Union would be free and safe. President Reagan does a side by side comparison of what freedom can do to society. He explains this through the comparison of post-war Germany to the Soviet Union and the 1987 industrial West-Berlin. Reagan describes the Soviet Union as unable to feed themselves, but reminds everyone what has worked to solve peace and happiness is freedom. This kind of freedom that President Reagan speaks of is freedom to free enterprise, basic needs, and security.
The speech at the Brandenburg Gate, in June 1987, with the renowned line "Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate. Mr. Gorbachev, Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall", was the provocation made by U.S. President Ronald Reagan, to his Soviet counterpart Mikhail Gorbachev, an approach to which he will answer a few years later by the elimination not only of the "Berlin wall", but also of the Soviet Union. It was a demonstration of force on Reagan’s part, of courage to challenge Gorbachev so openly.
Kennedy, “When President Kennedy spoke at the City Hall those 24 years ago, freedom was encircled, Berlin was under siege. And today, despite all the pressures upon this city, Berlin stands secure in its liberty. And freedom itself is transforming the globe” (Reagan par. 15). He relates this image to inspire people in a difficult time, because in the same way that John F. Kennedy spoke to the people of Berlin during rough times and delivered a message of hope and freedom that was expressed through a vision of seeing Germany and all of Europe united, “Freedom is indivisible, and when one man is enslaved, all are not free. When all are free, then we can look forward to that day when this city will be joined as one and this country and this great Continent of Europe in a peaceful and hopeful globe” (Kennedy par. 8). Reagan hoped to relay the same message during tough times as well and with the hopes that his words would be received with the same openness and eagerness the German people exhibited when Kennedy visited in