Already in the 15th century England was a very powerful country that colonized big parts of the world. This phenomenon is called imperialism and it was primarily founded to gain power and control, but also for political and economical reasons. The strong and larger countries took control over the smaller countries. When a country was colonized it lost its uniqueness and it was forced to live by the circumstances of England. The British Empire replaced countries languages with English. This was seen as a sign of weakness and it created a sense of inferiority and not least shame towards the “destroyed” countries. This have had a large impact on the citizens, for instance: Tom Law who lives in Wales, is furious and he has written the article: …show more content…
“Cachau Bant: Mind Your Language”. Tom Law is a freelance writer and journalist, and he is definitely not satisfied with the way his country was treated by England For centuries, England has been a dominant language and Tom law is really disappointed. According to Tom Law, English has slowly destroyed the Welsh language. He also points out that it has begun to tear the country apart. He is pretty sure that Wales is to become a husk of a nation because the Welsh language was taken from them, and the links between culture and history has been cut. As he says: “It’s a country which no longer remembers who or what it is”. Many Welsh people have been raised with English as their mother language. They were forced to speak English in schools, watch English television, listen to English Music and read English books. Their parents but also the school leaders made this choice. The government portrayed The Welsh speaking people very badly and one of the things England did, was to create a reputation that sounded that you should not the proud of speaking Welsh. The government succeeded in letting people believe that it was only poor people, who cleans office toilet who speak Welsh First of all Tom Law asks his readers to imagine how it would look if German replaced the English language.
This rhetorical question catches the reader’s attention, and makes them wonder and discuss with themselves. He makes up an example of the same situation that is happening to Wales, but with German and English. So German is to take over the English language. He mentions in his example that middle-class parents were looking to do the best for their children and therefore they would have to learn to speak German. When mentioning personal experiences like this, he appeals to pathos, which are the reader’s feelings but also to ethos which appealing to experiences. The reader’s can relate to the situation the Welsh people are going through and the fact that Tom Law himself was one of the “exposed” ones, who were taught at an English school, makes him seems more as a reliable writer, because he has been through the same situation and he knows what is like. As a reader you will have sympathy with him. The tone of the article is quite irritable. Tom Law is frustrated, and when he talks about the United Kingdom Independence party, he addresses them as: “Those loony UKIP types”. It is a rather condescending way of referring to the party on, because he uses word as “loony”, which means crazy, and also the use “those types” makes the reader understand, that they are not nice types, or at least Tom Law does not think so. Throughout the article Tom Law do get a little bit sarcastic in his expressions, for instance: “It’s hard to give a toss about language when you’re an English speaker. Because losing your language is not something you’ll ever have to worry about; thanks to the glory days of the British Empire”. He does actually not see the British Empire as “glory days”, it is other Englishmen who does. This makes the Englishmen seem like fools as he longer into the article mentions the negative aspects of England. Lastly he uses imagery, an example is: “The Welsh language
has declined so rapidly because the English placed a pillow over its face and smothered it”. “Placed a pillow over its face and smothered it”, really means, as Tom Law has written earlier in his article, that English is killing/destroying the Welsh culture and language. This imagery makes the reader think that the problem is more terrible. Tom Law ends his article by refereeing to a poem named “Do Not Go Gently Into That Good Night” written by Dylan Thomas, who is a Welsh poet. This poem is relevant to the article, because it explores the themes of grief and death. These themes are compared to the fact that the Welsh culture and language are dying. The event Tom Law is referring to in his article is the British colonization of Wales. The example he makes about the German language, tells the history behind be event. Long time ago, English became a increasingly dominant language, it actually became the common language. It started being used in the government and business world, and to improve their job opportunities and prospects Welsh people began learning English. The media began bludgeoning the public with anti-Welsh messages. Welsh was holding back the nation and blocking its progress. Parents were looking to do the best for their children and agreed in teaching their children English in schools. The two languages split the society into two. The well-educated and powerful people spoke English and the manual classes and the poor spoke Welsh. Within a few generations Welsh was outnumbered and now it is only the natives who speak welsh. All this happened over the past 150 years. In the 1840s, around 80 percent of people living in Wales spoke Welsh, but recent studies from 2011 show that the numbers has dropped to only 20 percent. Unfortunately, it is more and more rare to hear welsh being spoken in the streets It is very clear to read that Tom Law has a very negative view towards the welsh situation. As a reader you can relate to his thoughts and it makes you want to be angry too, which means that he has succeeded in appealing to the reader. A lot of his reader might think that Tom Law is exaggerating when he tells about how much English has had affection to the civilians and the culture, but on the other hand, you have to look at it from the native’s point of view. Their countries history has been torn apart and this is how Tom Law, as a native, sees the situation. It has definitely not been easy for the civilians to let go of their highly valued language.
The tone during the whole plot of in Brave New World changes when advancing throughout the plot, but it often contains a dark and satiric aspect. Since the novel was originally planned to be written as a satire, the tone is ironic and sarcastic. Huxley's sarcastic tone is most noticeable in the conversations between characters. For instance, when the director was educating the students about the past history, he states that "most facts about the past do sound incredible (Huxley 45)." Through the exaggeration of words in the statement of the director, Huxley's sarcastic tone obviously is portrayed. As a result of this, the satirical tone puts the mood to be carefree.
“People who had incurred the displeasure of the party simply disappeared and were never heard of again.
In the same also different way, the coach in Marshall speech also using pathos when he said “ They don’t know your heart. I do. I’ve seen it. You have shown it to me...You have shown just exactly who you are in here.” This is pathos because the coach bring up how good the team have become. Whether they’re losing or winning, the only thing will matter is no one will have a great heart as the players have. They don’t need to win the championship to show that they’re the best, they just need to show how much passion they have with football to show that they’re the best team. The coach also said: “ When you take that field today, you’ve gotta lay that heart on the line, men. From the souls of your feet, with every ounce of blood you’ve got in your body, lay it on the line until the final.” He doesn’t put pressure on the players that they have to win, he speaked how he feel, he speaked from his heart, he just wanted that when the team take the field today, they just need to put all their effort and passion on the field.
The Letter from Birmingham Jail was written by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in April of 1963. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was one of several civil rights activists who were arrested in Birmingham Alabama, after protesting against racial injustices in Alabama. Dr. King wrote this letter in response to a statement titled A Call for Unity, which was published on Good Friday by eight of his fellow clergymen from Alabama. Dr. King uses his letter to eloquently refute the article. In the letter dr. king uses many vivid logos, ethos, and pathos to get his point across. Dr. King writes things in his letter that if any other person even dared to write the people would consider them crazy.
In 1729, Jonathan Swift published a pamphlet called “A Modest Proposal”. It is a satirical piece that described a radical and humorous proposal to a very serious problem. The problem Swift was attacking was the poverty and state of destitution that Ireland was in at the time. Swift wanted to bring attention to the seriousness of the problem and does so by satirically proposing to eat the babies of poor families in order to rid Ireland of poverty. Clearly, this proposal is not to be taken seriously, but merely to prompt others to work to better the state of the nation. Swift hoped to reach not only the people of Ireland who he was calling to action, but the British, who were oppressing the poor. He writes with contempt for those who are oppressing the Irish and also dissatisfaction with the people in Ireland themselves to be oppressed.
In the novel The Stranger by Albert Camus, the narrator’s monotonous tone makes the reader experience a lack of emotion and feeling. The novel starts off describing Mersault’s current job and how he must go on leave in order to attend his mother’s funeral. He and his mother have been disconnected for some time as they had come to a mutual agreement with her staying in an elderly home. Mersault, the main protagonist, did not have the money or time to tend to his mother. The elderly home was the best option for the both of them. When he returns home from the funeral, Mersault gets caught up in external affairs he should not be in. He ends up writing a break up letter to Raymond’s girlfriend, which drives the rest of the story. Raymond beats his
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In Jamaica Kincaid’s , On Seeing England for the First Time, she presents the audience with the implied idea that imperialism and colonization disrupt a land’s established culture, and has no benefit for the colonized land
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