Advanced English Module B: Critical Study Speeches; Bandler & Anwar Sadat
‘Interpretations of texts can shift and change with time and place’
Considering your time and place, reflect on the ways in which context has shaped your critical interpretation of the prescribed texts and how your understanding of rhetorical devices have led to your appreciation of the speeches.
Throughout time society has been presented with very unique and moving leaders who have successfully delivered speeches that will remain timeless and invaluable due to their powerful themes and beliefs portrayed within them. Speeches such as Faith Bandler’s “Hope, Faith and Reconciliation” and Anwar Sadat’s “Statement to the Knesset” will always remain significant within society and will never become dependent on shaping today’s society but be a memory of our past and a reminder of who we are today. Only very few texts still remain today that are highly regarded as being timeless and have the ability to still be understood in today’s society. I believe this is attributed to the underlying significant themes and ideas such as justice that will continue to appeal to people and allow them to sympathise with the author disregarding the time period. The themes behind the everlasting texts give the audience to have a universal perception and interpretation that can differ depending on external factors and ways of life. Another important reason of why I believe these texts have the ability to shape our interpretations of them are because of the pivotal nature and characteristics that the speeches hold in our past that has developed and crawled into our future.
Faith Bandler’s speech entitled “Faith, Hope and Reconciliation” is a text that I perceive to be considered as timeless and still relevant in today's society.
Faith Bandler is a renowned Aboriginal activist who was instrumental in the 1967 referendum. Born in Tumbulgum, she was deeply influenced by her father who had experienced life as a slave plantation worker first hand, who died when Faith when Faith
Considering your time and place, reflect on the ways in which context has shaped your critical interpretation of the prescribed texts and how your understanding of rhetorical devices have led to your appreciation of the speeches.
Throughout time society has been presented with very unique and moving leaders who have successfully delivered speeches that will remain timeless and invaluable due to their powerful themes and beliefs portrayed within them. Speeches such as Faith Bandler’s “Hope, Faith and Reconciliation” and Anwar Sadat’s “Statement to the Knesset” will always remain significant within society and will never become dependent on shaping today’s society but be a memory of our past and a reminder of who we are today. Only very few texts still remain today that are highly regarded as being timeless and have the ability to still be understood in today’s society. I believe this is attributed to the underlying significant themes and ideas such as justice that will continue to appeal to people and allow them to sympathise with the author disregarding the time period. The themes behind the everlasting texts give the audience to have a universal perception and interpretation that can differ depending on external factors and ways of life. Another important reason of why I believe these texts have the ability to shape our interpretations of them are because of the pivotal nature and characteristics that the speeches hold in our past that has developed and crawled into our future.
Faith Bandler’s speech entitled “Faith, Hope and Reconciliation” is a text that I perceive to be considered as timeless and still relevant in today's society.
Faith Bandler is a renowned Aboriginal activist who was instrumental in the 1967 referendum. Born in Tumbulgum, she was deeply influenced by her father who had experienced life as a slave plantation worker first hand, who died when Faith when Faith