"In Civil Disobedience", Henry David Thoreau, stresses on the true importance of the individual and his power to alter governmental injustices. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., in "Letter from Birmingham Jail", places strong emphasis on direct action to impose reform, while promoting the equalization of rights for all individuals. Both authors incorporate strong rhetorical strategies that appeal to the lectors, such as ethos and pathos. However, King's piece exalts effectively due to the genuine modesty he portrays, a quality Thoreau lacks provoking a reverse reaction than the one desired. .
The ability to strike an individual with emotion is the ability to detect that debile section of the human and touch the true depths of their natural sentiments. King utilizes emotion in a tremendous way by quoting the Bible and mentioning Christ's doings. He takes in consideration that the components of his audience are clergymen that assumingly have a profound study of the Bible and intends to persuade them with this knowledge tactically. When he incorporates passages of the Bible, he compares them to actions he has or will act upon in good faith: "Like Paul, I must constantly respond to the Macedonian call for aid". Here King compares his predicating of freedom with that of the Apostle Paul's of the gospel. King later uses a different form of emotional appeal when he speaks of his personal encounters with racism, quoting his five year old son with an ingenuous question: "Daddy, why do white people treat colored people so mean?". With statements such as these, King places the reader in a small area of his life, stating events he has lived and sensed, enabling the piece to penetrate further within its lectors. .
Thoreau possesses a very dry emotional appeal in his piece because of his lack of modesty, that almost makes his statements and remarks seem despotic. However, the emotional appeal, although found vaguely within his writing and somewhat connected to ethical appeal, is existent within the piece: "The best thing a man can do for his culture when he is rich is to endeavor to carry out those schemes which he entertained when he was poor.
A Letter What meaning or purpose does a single letter have on a life? ... "The letter was the symbol of her calling. ... Hawthorne finds that the scarlet letter was wrapped up around a letter, after he drops it, written by a Surveyor detailing the whole affair of the scarlet letter. ... A letter "the letter A "but freshly green instead of scarlet.""... The Scarlet Letter. ...
What meaning or purpose does a single letter have on a life? ... "The letter was the symbol of her calling. ... When Hawthorne finds the old faded letter in the customhouse he has no idea what the history of the letter really is. ... Hawthorne finds that the scarlet letter was wrapped up around a letter, after he drops it, written by a Surveyor detailing the whole affair of the scarlet letter. ... A letter "the letter A "but freshly green instead of scarlet.""...
In Benjamin Banneker's letter to Thomas Jefferson, Banneker argues for slavery, referencing biblical and constitutional allusions to unite his audience under a set of shared values, syntactical permutation to emphasize how long slavery has transcended America, and a rapid tone shift to invoke emotion and willpower unto his audience. Throughout his entire letter, Banneker alludes a multitude of times to the Bible. ... Banneker juxtaposed these ideas of equality using a wondrous tone and the idea of slavery and injustice with the pleading tone to incite, in both Jefferson and his audience,...
The poem "The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter" is a dramatic monologue written in the form of a letter from the wife's point of view. ... In these closing lines of the poem and the "letter" the wife reaches out from her lonely world of sorrow to her husband in a direct request: "Please let me know when and by what route you are returning, so that I may come to meet you." ...
In the book, "The Scarlet Letter," Nathaniel Hawthorne creates a character who is so loving, passionate, and mistreated that the reader cannot help but feel badly for her. ... She is reminded of her sin every day with her child, Pearl, and the scarlet letter. ... Throughout the story of "The Scarlet Letter," Hawthorne tips off the reader that Hester Prynne is destined for a downfall because her character is written a classic tragic heroine. ... It is evident that "Hester's story will not and cannot end happily" (Guy-A Critical Review of The Scarlet Letter-Website), because her tragedy is ...
Scarlet Letter's Use Of Symbolism To Show Psychological Effects Of Sin "The act gross and brief, and brings loathing after it." ... It was doubtless caused by one of those meteors the minister, looking upward to the zenith, beheld there the appearance of an immense letter-the letter 'A'-marked out in lines of dull red light" (Hawthorn). ... In a moment of joy, Hester removes the scarlet letter and tosses it away from herself. ... She thinks she can just cast off her ignominy, removing guilt as easily as the letter itself is removed. ... When the letter does not reac...
Salutations Peter, It is I, Katherine. After yesterday night's events, I think it is best for me to communicate on behalf of Thomas for the elapsed development of the Baths issue. As you and the whole town know after all that had happened, my husband believes deeply in his findings and that the tow...
Tchaikovsky was at work on his Fourth Symphony when he received a letter from Antonina Milyukova claiming to be a former student of his and declaring that she was madly in love with him. ... He saw parallels between Antonina and Pushkin's heroine, Tatiana and it is difficult to say which letter provoked the stronger response from the composer: The despairing letter Tatiana writes to the cold-hearted Onegin, or the one he himself received from Antonina, threatening suicide. ... It is interesting to note that Tchaikovsky himself was a profuse letter-writer which may be one of the reasons w...
In Nathaniel Hawthorne's, "The Scarlet Letter," the major characters revolve around the letter mentioned in the title. ... She is obsessed with the letter, and loves it like she loves her own mother, Hester, whom the letter probably affected the most. The letter affects Hester in both a good and a bad way. ... As both her and the letter are products of the sin, she feels that by taking off the letter, Hester is also removing her from her life. ... Finally, Hester is the one most impacted by the letter. ...
Throughout The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne embeds a variety of signs and symbols in the letter "A." The letter "A" has many positive and negative effects on Hester Prynne, the wearer of the scarlet letter. ... Pearl is the "the animate letter, the child dressed in gold-embroidered scarlet" and "the scarlet letter in another form, the scarlet letter endowed with life.... Pearl is so accustomed to seeing her mother wear the scarlet letter that at one point when Hester Prynne took off her scarlet letter, Pearl completely refused to acknowledge or talk to her ...