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Braveheart


William Wallace knows there is no talking and wants to stand up to the King instead of talking. His words are too strong for the council members to stick with their plan. "They can try and take our land, but they can never take our freedom," Wallace exclaims to his army before the first encounter with the English. In Wallace's head the reality of the matter is that if we don't fight, than at some point we will be killed.
             In the analysis of this movie I applied the method of persuasive appeals to support my claim. The three persuasive appeals are ethos, logos, and pathos. Ethos is how credible and believable a person or group of people are. Everything and anything can gain or tarnish a person's credibility. Pathos is the emotion that is involved with the speaker or the words that he is speaking. The purpose of persuasive appeals is to identify the major artistic proofs and how persuasive they are in determining the effects of a discourse on its audience. The effect of the speeches in this manner are so powerful that every man in his army stops and listens to every word he speaks before battle. His words are so powerful because in the beginning they did not want to fight with him. They were not with him and wanted to go another direction. William Wallace only used his words to convince the men and turn them into a fierce fighting machine that would win many battles.
             William Wallace's ethos is as solid as a rock. What I mean is that he himself is a Scotland. He doesn't need to come in asking for an update report because he knows exactly what is going on, who is causing all of this, and how long it has been going on for. He was born and raised in the midst of the King's rule over his people. The way these people lived in villages and looked out for one another already gave them a sense of pride. They were one big family being bullied around and now if they don't give more they will be forced off their land or perhaps killed.


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