Speeches-Need For Hope

Question 1

Deane: context and ethos

Answer 1

• Swiss canyoning accident killing 21 youth, 14 australian
• Deane governor general
• pierced the heart if the issue to find meaning in the universal human tragedy of the death of youth, inspiring the hope to overcome it.
• exordium: low modality, inclusive language, emotive rhetoric of “tragic loss” and “great sadness” builds personal rapport
• “here on behalf of all australians”

Question 2

Deane: logos/human connection and reception

Answer 2

With ethos established, Donne skilfully constructs the angle that through tragedy our collective humanity

-appeal to logos, qualifiers “yet” , “conversely” and “perhaps” that meaning can be found by “bringing the two nations.

-motif of illumination “shining part”
“We are all involved in mankind”

• by employing the symbolism of the wattle in his peroration Deane illustrates that this unifying force death places upon humanity is the silver lining by which the necessary hope can be found to confront grief, just like “wattle coming into bloom” in the desolation of “winter.”
• ABC Rebecca Carmody “big heart has interfered with better judgement” by not narrowing to simple nationalistic address, but time later showed the broader humanistic message of compassion to quell international animosity over preventability of the incident while still unifying all australians to face the loss of their compatriots. It is this universal appeal of Deane’s….

Question 3

Sadat: Context, ethos and religious/humanistic link

Answer 3

Conversely, Sadat’s “Statement to the Knesset,” his longterm adversaries due to his status as president of egypt, was delivered at risk to his own life in order to convey his vision of hope in common humanity as the key to overcome cultural hatred and find peace in senseless war.

-ethos: “i will go to the farthest corner of the world [to] establish peace… Under the responsibility of god”
High modality hyperbole and religious allusion, Spoken in hebrew

-so plea for peace through hope is respected

Religious angle exacerbated
-abraham’s feat of sacrifice “great grandfather of arabs and jews”

Goes beyond context to universal terminology
-“man” “mankind” “humanity”

Question 4

Sadat: pathos and history, goals for peace/happy peace world

Answer 4

• now able to address past conflicts as the atrocities to mankind they were
• “you bewailing mother…widowed wife…son who lost a brother…all victims of war” both personal and universal appeal to pathos

-“why dont we stretch out our hands…so that together, we might destroy the barrier” between them.
Anacoenosis

Question 5

Sadat: Reception

Answer 5

-not as universally well received at deane due to deep seeded cultural hatred blinding some of his middle eastern contemporaries.

• assassination in 1981
• camp david peace accords in 1978

Question 6

Thesis:

Answer 6

Hope is the strength of will required to overcome adversity. All good speeches seek to inspire this hope to tackle an issue of their day but great speeches transcend the barriers of culture and era by channelling our common humanity to engage with the ubiquitous human issues behind their contextual problems. In this way both Deane’s “It is Still Winter at Home (1999)” and Sadat’s “Statement to the Knesset (1977)” are able to inspire hope in the midst of the senseless death and war respectively, gifting people of all eras the vital first step to overcome them.

Question 7

Collective humanity -> hope -> overcome strug

Answer 7

• channelling our common humanity to engage with ubiquitous human issues behind their contextual problems. In this way…are able to inspire hope in the midst of…, gifting people the vital first step to overcome them.
• pierce the heart of the issue to find meaning in the universal human tragedy of the death of youth, inspiring the hope to overcome it
• through tragedy our collective humanity is highlighted, creating necessary hope to overcome it.
• by which the necessary hope can be found to confront grief
• finding the vital hope by taking solace in our collective humanity
• convey his vision of hope in common humanity as the key to overcome cultural hatred
• plea for peace through hope
• create the common ground by which hope for peace can be established.
• inspires even the most adversarial audience with the hope that through our human connections we can find peace.
• hope is vital to overcoming any adversary, thus via the genius insight of their speeches deane and sadat find the source of hope to overcome grief and hatred in our common humanity, in doing so sculpting timeless and universal messages.

Question 8

Keating:

Answer 8

• 1992
• commemorate year of the worlds indigenous people
• midst of aboriginal rights movement
• reveal injustice face by aboriginals through the common humanity and heritage of australians
• dont need to establish ethos, prime minister, high modality, inclusive language
• “imagine…imagine we had suffered injustice and…were blamed for it” enumeration of rhetorical statements causing audience to feel empathy.
• logos to overcome 90s belief that aboriginals are parasitic, shared history role in “the wars…sport…art and music” sharp truncated structure to be unmissable.
• “there is nothing to fear or to lose in the recognition of historical truth
• “We must give meaning to justice and equity” abstractions.
• metaphor “building blocks of change” referencing “the mabo judgement” and “atsic”
• “plight” “affects us all”
• rightly received powerful response in largely aboriginal audience and many home viewers
• did not inspire as much change as desired due to political opponent John Howard’s condemnation of the view as “a black armband view of history” not reflective of modern australian society who should not be held responsible.