Purpose as in what was the purpose of the orator in delivering their speech. So you can say that socrates wanted to wake the people to the corruption of Athens which has led to wrong doing, and then he goes and uses his situation as an example of it. okay these are my notes on Marthin Luther King, hopefully it'll help, when talking about audience u have to talk about both today and then. like Luther raises the idea od equality and this issues still resonates in today's society.
Martin Luther King – “I have a dream”
When: shadow of “symbolic figure”- Lincoln memorial, August 28th 1963
Purpose: being forth to the nation the importance of peacefully solving the U.S racial problem. This is apparent from the opening paragraph. The metaphor of “beacon” used to emphasis the cleansing of the mistreatment of African Americans after the Emancipation proclamation.
Why is resonates, techniques:
- Anaphor “one hundred years later”, repetition of “still” applied to reinforce that even after the proclamation racial injustice is still occurring. Notion of racial segregation is accentuation through the demeaning connotation of categorizing the African American as a species “the Negro”.
- “Riches of freedom” metaphor for the day when racial equality is not a dream but a reality.
- Anaphora “I have a dream…” enforces and encourages the African Americans to dream of the day when they will accepted, be racially equal but they must not give up.
- Taken from the constitution written by Thomas Jefferson. Unity becomes thematic, “We hold these truths to be self evident; that all men equal”, “table of brotherhood”.
- Geographical metaphors “every hill and mountain shall be made low…crooked places will be made straight” it is also an allegory for social classes, a metaphor for social equality.
