Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Winston Churchill vs Adolf Hitler

Do you ever see this picture before? they are ruler of their country and they have their own opinion and stand. For instance, Hitler is a dictator of the Germany and he rule his country only on his decision meanwhile for Churchill, he has his own opinion and lead the British army. both of them have a power of persuasive in their speak and it is important to influence people to follow their propaganda.

if we see the way they present their speech, there are some similarities that they used to catch the attention of the audiences. the first and the most obvious element is the use of 'I' and 'We'..both Hitler and Churchill used I to show the authority of them in delivering the speech. they are the leader, so they use the pronoun I to show that that they are the solely person with power at the particular place...then they use the pronoun 'We' to catch the audience empathy towards what had happened to them..in other words, they sate their status very clearly (I) but they deliver the speech with friendly (we)..thus, the use of theses pronouns was very effective to win the people's attention.

other than that, there are a few elements of persuasion that were used in the speech. the first element is using rhetorical questions..the use of rhetorical question is to make the audience reflect and think of what was said or happened to them for example Hitler uses rhetorical question to reflect what other nations had done to them

"but who was they blackmailed?who was it they sweated?was it the national socialist state?"

the second element of persuasion is the use of repetition. repetition is use to emphasize some important matter or to tell a new information..in the speeches, both of them use repetition several times to emphasis the important matter and to change the people's mentality to follow the way the leaders think..in Churchill speech he uses repetition to emphasize his hope and spirit of fighting against the enemy...

"we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields in the street, we shall fight in the hills:we shall never surrender"

when my group presented the speech analysis, we said that all this speech is 'crap'..we are not insulting the speeches because these are historical script which are kept in the world museum...actually the 'crap' that we mean is that the leaders main message is at the end of their speeches..all the other things that they said from the beginning is like a form of persuasion..every leader do that...they talk about the current issues and then relate to the main input at the end of their talk...so..we wanted to convey that both leaders do the same thing in their speech(that is what we think)..i hope the misunderstanding is now cleared.

4 comments:

  1. Does people unfamiliar with these prominent leaders - Adolf Hitler and Winston Churchill?
    Well, of course they are the best leaders for many centuries. From their speeches, we know that they give the speeches with some confidence and well-prepared in front of their nations to get their support and sympathy from them by showing their great persuasion skills in their speeches.There is no doubt that they are considered as the powerful leaders in the world.

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  2. They are good as a leader, not as a human. Their skill of persuasion may be good, but there is no way for me to look at them as an example. Besides them, there so many leaders far more relevant to make example from.

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  3. hitler is a good leader... correction, he is a very good speaker. if he still lives now, maybe he will have the ability to unite all of europe. he could easily make the logo "1 europe" and everyone will follow him mindlessly. still, we could learn from him and be a good speaker. even thought most of us do not want to be a leader, but we can still use it as a teacher.

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    1. How do we learn from someone who wanted to kill a whole religion

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