Hannah Arendt's Analysis

According to Hannah Arendt, “The Greek thought, the human capacity for political organization is not only different from but stands in direct opposition to that natural association whose center is the home (oikiri) and the family (23) and that “the freedom (and in some instances so-called freedom) of society which requires and justifies the restraint of political authority.” (30). we know that politics and speech had evolved from Aristocracy to Democracy and the purpose of speech evolving from trying to convince the court, the pope, the ruling class to convincing the people. This changes shows that the changes were to impresses specific groups or agenda rather than voicing your opinion or advancing your agenda. Hannah, also said that “Under
The change from action to speech was more impactful again rather than trying to convince a handful of people through action, speech was more persuasive because not only are you trying to convince them, you are also giving them the freedom to make a choice rather than be dependent in the ruling class or the head of household in the Greek system to depending and hoping that your speech not only was it well said but also actually conveyed its intended message to influence and garner the reaction and response that you are hoping
Coming from at-time where other nations were subjected to paying fines and levy to another nation to people fighting and speaking up for their rights and what they believe in, we see that politics has shifted from being separated from family and other underlying issues to those issues being the reason why people either support the king, the church, the parliament or other bodies and individuals. My point is supported by Hannah Arendt when she said, “Freedom is in the realm of the social, and force or violence becomes the monopoly of government. It meant neither to rule nor to be ruled. Thus, within the realm of the household, freedom did not exist, for the household head, its ruler, was free only in so far as he had the power to leave the household and enter the political realm, where all were equals.” (33) “to be free meant to be free from the inequality present in rulership and to move in a sphere where neither rule nor being ruled existed.” (40) and this option was not present in the old Greek Politics and therefore politics has been replaced by freedom and this freedom was only made possible thanks to speech/