Rhetorical Analysis Of Neville Chamberlain's Speech
British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain gave this speech to the House of Commons on September 1st, 1939, hours after Hitler's troops had invaded Poland. Chamberlain and others had spent years negotiating with Hitler in order to prevent another war in Europe. The point of this speech is too inform people of what Hitler has done and of what the British response will be. In the beginning of his speech, Neville Chamberlain reminds you of his qualifications and actions as leader by stating, “Eighteen months ago in this House I prayed that the responsibility might not fall upon me to ask this country to accept the awful arbitrament of war. I fear that I may not be able to avoid that responsibility”, this shows that he has taken responsibility
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He achieved this through his utilization of logos and pathos. When Chamberlain said “If out of the struggle we again re-establish in the world the rules of good faith and the renunciation of force, why then even the sacrifices that will be entailed upon us will find their fullest justification”, he gives good moral reasons why the British must enter the conflict against the Nazi’s. He describes the Nazi’s again by using logos and pathos, saying, “As long as that Government exists and pursues the methods it has so persistently followed during the last two years, there will be no peace in Europe. We shall merely pass from one crisis to another, and see one country after another attacked by methods which have now become familiar to us in their sickening technique”. He explains that the effect of letting the German people do as they please is that Europe will be plunged into years of struggle, with violence and plagues of death being the toll. Chamberlain needed the emotional support of his citizens. He used pathos in this address to win their trust. He gains his audience back by using pathos and reminding them of grim times, such as World War One, it is still fresh in nearly every ones minds. Chamberlain says, “The thoughts of many of us must at this moment inevitably be turning back to 1914, and to a
He achieved this through his utilization of logos and pathos. When Chamberlain said “If out of the struggle we again re-establish in the world the rules of good faith and the renunciation of force, why then even the sacrifices that will be entailed upon us will find their fullest justification”, he gives good moral reasons why the British must enter the conflict against the Nazi’s. He describes the Nazi’s again by using logos and pathos, saying, “As long as that Government exists and pursues the methods it has so persistently followed during the last two years, there will be no peace in Europe. We shall merely pass from one crisis to another, and see one country after another attacked by methods which have now become familiar to us in their sickening technique”. He explains that the effect of letting the German people do as they please is that Europe will be plunged into years of struggle, with violence and plagues of death being the toll. Chamberlain needed the emotional support of his citizens. He used pathos in this address to win their trust. He gains his audience back by using pathos and reminding them of grim times, such as World War One, it is still fresh in nearly every ones minds. Chamberlain says, “The thoughts of many of us must at this moment inevitably be turning back to 1914, and to a