agony”, the perspective draws an emotional response that she hopes to use as empathy. When threatened death as a punishment she expresses that if she “is to die before her time” that she would “consider that a gain”. She again uses pathos to draw motion from the king by explaining that death would be worth her action. This adds a more dramatic moment which in turn causes more emotion. Unlike Antigone Martin Luther King Jr uses logic through logos to make his argument after being called an “extremist”
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attributes. Throughout the story, Creon shows his overwhelming pride in many different situations, often referred to as hubris. He is one that believes only he is right and is very close-minded. To illustrate, he says “He shall not save these girls from death,” as a response to his son, Haemon, that his decision is final and nothing Haemon says will change that. Creon takes pride in his decisions that he will be giving death to Antigone and sees no reason to listen to anyone else’s views, which will
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“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal”, this is a quote from the Declaration of Independence written by Thomas Jefferson. Equal. This is the key word in this quote; this is the foundation of the United States of America. In the 1960’s many of the white folks, especially in the Southern states seem to have forgotten what the term “equal” meant. They treated the African Americans like animals. They saw them as meaningless organisms, not even human beings and that
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Letter of Birmingham Jail Martin Luther King constructs his letter by his use of Biblical allusion references, and his use of Rhetorical Appeals such as Logos, Pathos, and Ethos which is shown throughout the letter. He gives us the oppositions arguments and answers them. (Pathos)As Dr. Martin Luther King begins his letter with emotional appeal towards him being in the Birmingham jail, he starts off saying “While confined here in the Birmingham City Jail”. This shows his emotion as being limited
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society endure but they have been severely weakened by protests and outcries from citizens demanding justice. Peaceful resistance paves the way for change and equality because it leads other people to become informed about different viewpoints. The
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The two stories, Antigone and Letter from Birmingham Jail, both show that you need to take risks and stand up for what's right if you want something in life to change. In the story Antigone, her father then her two brothers die, soon after her Uncle Creon became king and only buried one brother and made a law not to bury the other, but she took the risk and buried the other, and in the story Letter from Birmingham Jail Dr.King gets put in jail for trying to make a big protest against the unjust laws
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segregation. As King writes the letter, he appeals to ethos, logos, and pathos numerously by using techniques such as parallelism, repetition, rhetorical questions, metaphors, similes, and allusions to construct a strong effective argument. “The Letter from Birmingham Jail” was written in 1963 from King’s jail cell in Alabama to clarify his reasoning for refusing to obey the laws of his time by constructing and leading nonviolent protests. Within the first paragraphs of his letter to the eight white clergymen
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revolutionary piece of writing from their time period. Dr. Martin Luther King’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail” was this revolutionary piece of writing in the 1960s. King had written this letter while confined in Birmingham Jail and he had written it to the clergymen whom had written “A Call for Unity.” Throughout King’s letter he writes about the civil rights movement and makes an argument against what the clergymen had written about him. The Letter from Birmingham
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Justice and injustice are contingent on the societal and individual views. In Antigone and “Letter from Birmingham Jail”, Antigone and Martin Luther King Jr. fight against the alleged justice and order of the society in order to pursue the real justice. Although Antigone has the stake of perturbing her dead brother' dignity and peace while Dr. King has the stake of losing the opportunity for African Americans to be free and treated equally, both of them are so determined to achieve their goals that
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persuasive masterpiece in the form of a letter that he wrote while incarcerated in a Birmingham jail, that up until recent years wasn’t as highly regard as his famous “I Have a Dream” speech. On April 16, 1963, while imprisoned, Martin Luther King Jr. wrote a letter addressed to eight clergymen who were allegedly concerned about what King was doing for civil rights. Dr. King’s response in the letter uses a great sum of rhetorical devices. Throughout his letter Dr. King used Ethos Pathos and Logos effectively
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