what is leadership..??how can one person lead millions of people to follow his rule? why do he lead the people?did he want to do it for justice or just for personal satisfaction? these are the two leaders who were one of the most influential leaders in the world war times. in the video that we watched in the class, both of them were very persuasive in giving the speech and persuade their people in conveying their agenda...
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...=D
this is a very persuasive speech...look at their audience I am very impressed on how both speaker manage to control their audience very well...they motivates and inspired their audience by using persuasion techniques that they mastered...maybe if you put a video of their presentation many will agree with point of their speech...
ReplyDeleteya! that is what i meant when i presenting for our group!..thanks for making it clear fahmi!! you are the best!! i totally agreed with you (n_n)
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