Rhetorical Analysis Of Speech In The Great Dictator

Charlie Chaplin’s speech in the Great Dictator is a moving and poignant piece of writing, written by Chaplin himself. In this speech, Chaplin makes the bold statement that “greed has poisoned [human’s] souls, [and] has barricaded the world with hate”, and while this proclamation was made in 1940, the fact that it is relevant today is horrifying. In mentioning that “dictators free themselves but enslave the people”, he showcases the terror that is dictatorship. For example, Joseph Stalin was the dictator of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, or the USSR from the mid 1920’s up until his death in 1953. Under his rule, he forcefully industrialized the Soviet Union, which caused the most disastrous unnatural famine ever. It is apparent that