Text Analysis “I Have a Dream”
Text analysis “I Have a Dream”
To be born Negro in the US in till late 1970s meant to be unequally judged, discriminated and segregated according to skin color. One of the active freedom fighters was a Martin Luther King, who made fundamental contribution against racism in the US. King’s speech “I Have a Dream” marked the beginning of new era, era of freedom and equality. This paper will try to critically analyze the speech “I Have a Dream”, look at the references King made and try to identify effects of them on the audience, sketch MLK’s discontents, type of the movement doctor Luther advocated.
By analyzing the speech “I Have a Dream”, it could be divided into two important components: references and discontents, which are closely related and dependent to each other. King firstly proposes a reference as an idea, then, his discontent about reality to make his argument stronger, emotional. For example, MLK mentioned Declaration of Independence to maintain his point of view that every person has unalienable equal right for life, liberty and pursuit of happiness (Jefferson et al, 1776). On the contrary King referred to Constitution of Alabama, which segregated Negros and White children according to skin color (“Declaration of Alabama”, 2011). By that King showed his strong discontent about American society (King, 1963).
Another example, during speech King mentioned Emancipation Proclamation (governmental prescription, which abolished slavery) to emphasize that even still now, after five score it was signed, Negro life is not free. The aim and the effects in the result of both examples are to awake audience emotionally for certain actions, actions which will abolish segregation.
Actions, which doctor King proposed, - are peaceful protests. He persuades crowd not to generate meetings into riots, people must put dignity and discipline on the higher place than physical violence (King, 1963)
Summarizing points made above, it could be concluded that Martin
To be born Negro in the US in till late 1970s meant to be unequally judged, discriminated and segregated according to skin color. One of the active freedom fighters was a Martin Luther King, who made fundamental contribution against racism in the US. King’s speech “I Have a Dream” marked the beginning of new era, era of freedom and equality. This paper will try to critically analyze the speech “I Have a Dream”, look at the references King made and try to identify effects of them on the audience, sketch MLK’s discontents, type of the movement doctor Luther advocated.
By analyzing the speech “I Have a Dream”, it could be divided into two important components: references and discontents, which are closely related and dependent to each other. King firstly proposes a reference as an idea, then, his discontent about reality to make his argument stronger, emotional. For example, MLK mentioned Declaration of Independence to maintain his point of view that every person has unalienable equal right for life, liberty and pursuit of happiness (Jefferson et al, 1776). On the contrary King referred to Constitution of Alabama, which segregated Negros and White children according to skin color (“Declaration of Alabama”, 2011). By that King showed his strong discontent about American society (King, 1963).
Another example, during speech King mentioned Emancipation Proclamation (governmental prescription, which abolished slavery) to emphasize that even still now, after five score it was signed, Negro life is not free. The aim and the effects in the result of both examples are to awake audience emotionally for certain actions, actions which will abolish segregation.
Actions, which doctor King proposed, - are peaceful protests. He persuades crowd not to generate meetings into riots, people must put dignity and discipline on the higher place than physical violence (King, 1963)
Summarizing points made above, it could be concluded that Martin