Hitlers Are Bred By Slaves Rhetorical Devices

5. It seems contradictory that Hitler, a tyrant, and the followers of his philosophy are “bred by” the people whom they want to enslave. However, this statement can be true because the Hitlers are the slaves of destruction, war, and violence. They cannot help themselves do things to hurt and destroy people. Therefore, there is a mutual relationship between the Hitlers and the people they want to enslave: while the innocent people are enslaved by the Hitlers, the Hitlers are also slaves who depend on those people to bring them pleasure and satisfaction by hurting them. The abrupt three-word sentence in paragraph 6 continues the style of the short statement “Hitlers are bred by slaves”. This arrangement not only builds a consistent and concise tone, making
The purpose of the rhetorical questions in paragraph 7 is to explain the fact that fighting and violence are sometimes men’s instinct, therefore, if we want to stop the wars, we must encourage men to get rid of such instinct in the first place. The use of rhetorical questions builds a stronger tone that leave a clear impression to the audience, and it indirectly lead the audience to the final conclusion the author attempts to convey. By using rhetorical questions, Woolf naturally catches the audience’ attention to her central point, and she also drives the audience to ask themselves to think those questions while they are reading. The aphoristic statement at the end of paragraph 7 means that as women, or people who are not directly involved in the fighting of the wars, we should not just simply encourage men to give up fighting because wars and violence can be parts of their human instinct. What we should do is to understand their situation and comfort them, and we need to find some other creative activities for them to do rather than letting them immerse themselves in “the loss of their gun” because their instinct about fighting can still remain in their nature even after they lost the opportunity to